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Apollo Construction. Beverley Bryan: the British Black Panther who inspired a generation of women. In the mid-60s, Beverley Bryan was a prefect at Lavender Hill secondary modern in south London.

Beverley Bryan: the British Black Panther who inspired a generation of women

One of her responsibilities was to stand at the school gates and scribble down the name of any student who was late. One such girl was Olive Morris, who would become one of the country’s leading anti-racism activists. Bryan, meanwhile, would follow in the younger girl’s footsteps, becoming a British Black Panther, a founder member of the Brixton Black Women’s Group and, in 1985, the co-author of the seminal book The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain – which helped educate generations of women about the struggles and triumphs of Black women in Britain. “She was always very fierce,” Bryan says, over a video call from her home in Jamaica, of her friend Morris, who died in 1979. “She was always a strong person, a strong personality.” The National Security Archive. December 9, 2014 Torture Report Finally Released Senate Intelligence Committee Summary of CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program Concludes CIA Misled Itself, Congress, the President about Lack of Effectiveness.

The National Security Archive

September 28, 2014 THE YELLOW BOOK Secret Salvadoran military document from the civil war era catalogued "enemies," many killed or disappeared. State of the Union 2012 No Clapping. The 2014 State of the Union Address (Enhanced Version) FlowingData. Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English. Parts 1-4 of the Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English (SBCSAE) are now available, for a total of approximately 249,000 words.

Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English

The Santa Barbara Corpus includes transcriptions, audio, and timestamps which correlate transcription and audio at the level of individual intonation units. AccessDescriptionContents and Summaries CitationRecordingsAcknowledgementsContact. Black Panther. Large Network Dataset Collection. Social networks Networks with ground-truth communities Communication networks Citation networks Collaboration networks.

Large Network Dataset Collection

Mainstream Media's Sochi Olympics hysteria. Wartime Christmases can teach us how to 'muddle through' in the time of Covid. Being as I am a child of divorce, I watched all the media discussion of Christmas and what was to be done about it with detached bemusement.

Wartime Christmases can teach us how to 'muddle through' in the time of Covid

I have come to view Christmas as something of a movable feast, which at times had been downright unconventional. I realised that it mattered hugely to other people, of course, but I’d be fine, I thought ­– relieved, even, not to be on a crammed train, the windows misting up with everyone’s virus-y breath. Wider Reading Textbooks. From Black power to Black Lives Matter. BLACK LIVES MATTER.

News.google. Obama on Black Lives Matter. Current Events. Data Is Beautiful. What British politicians won't admit – we need to transform the welfare state. I found an anecdote towards the end of The Road to 1945, the late historian Paul Addison’s history of how the second world war changed Britain.

What British politicians won't admit – we need to transform the welfare state

It centres on Winston Churchill, Ernest Bevin – then minister of labour in the wartime coalition government – and thousands of soldiers setting off to mainland Europe. In June 1944, two days before the D-day landings, Churchill and Bevin went to Portsmouth to say farewell to the troops. All News Summaries. 'Racism's still around': Notting Hill 50 years on from Mangrove. In the last scene of Mangrove, the first instalment of Steve McQueens critically acclaimed series Small Axe, the focal character Frank Crichlow is smoking outside his restaurant.

'Racism's still around': Notting Hill 50 years on from Mangrove

It’s a cold night and Crichlow, played by Shaun Parkes, looks weighed down by the landmark trial he and eight others had just won. His friend Dalston “Dol” Isaacs tells him: “We might have won the battle Frank, but we’ll see about the war.” Isaacs complains he can’t cope with another winter in the UK and wants to go home, to which Crichlow replies: “This we home, Dol.

The Mangrove.” Though Isaacs, who is played by Gary Beadle, was speaking of the cold, the scene points to something much deeper – and raises questions about how much has actually changed since then.