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Remembering Malcolm X’s visit to Smethwick
Civil rights campaigner Malcolm X changed the course of history when he visited the British town of Smethwick, in the West Midlands, during a period of heightened racial tension in 1965. He was invited to Marshall Street in Smethwick, where white homeowners were lobbying the council to buy up houses to prevent black or Asian
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Black, Asian, minority ethnic communities and inner city riots
The following speech was delivered at the “Beyond the Unrest – Community Safety & Civil Society” seminar, promoted by the BME Leadership & Engagement project, on November 29th, 2011. The subject I have been asked to address is vast and it is simply impossible to do justice to it in the time I have been
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