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Darcus Howe

March 2023

  • Black People’s Day of Action, 2 March 1981. Grieving protesters march to the House of Commons after 13 black people were killed in a New Cross house fire on 18 January 1981.

    Race Today archive chronicling lives of black Britons to launch online

    Magazine’s radical journalism and campaigning illuminated issues affecting black communities in 1970s and 1980s

November 2021

  • Yinka Inniss Charles, left, and Jamilla Bolton-Gordon, whose fathers Elton Anthony Carlisle Inniss and Rhodan Gordon were members of the Mangrove Nine.

    Daughters of the Mangrove Nine: ‘That passion in our parents was instilled in us’

    Fifty years after the landmark court case, Yinka Inniss Charles and Jamila Bolton-Gordon talk about police harassment, their fathers’ legacy and their ongoing work against injustice

October 2020

  • Four men entering the Mangrove, a Caribbean restaurant on All Saints Road, Notting Hill, London, 10 August 1970. The restaurant is seen here with a banner reading: 'Hands Off Mangrove' above it

    Today in Focus
    The story of the Mangrove Nine

    Guardian arts and culture correspondent Lanre Bakare discusses the Mangrove Nine, a group of black activists who found themselves on trial at the Old Bailey in 1971 after protesting against police harassment. Their story became a landmark moment in British history, though many have never heard of it
  • Leila Hassan Howe photographed in London July 2020

    Black lives
    Leila Hassan Howe: ‘My life was made hell. You’d just hear a tirade against immigrants’

    The march she led in 1981 helped forge a black British identity. She talks about revolution, police brutality and Black Lives Matter
  • Steve McQueen

    Steve McQueen: ‘Our Marlon Brandos are on building sites, or driving buses’

    The director’s new Small Axe series kicks off with the landmark 1971 trial of the Mangrove Nine. It’s his aim to fill these gaps in British history, he says, and to open the industry to other black film-makers

December 2017

  • Darcus Howe

    The Observer's obituaries of 2017
    Darcus Howe remembered by Diane Abbott

    Diane Abbott recalls her friend and fellow activist, a fearless, outspoken and witty man with a pleasingly mischievous streak

April 2017

  • Darcus Howe

    Letters: Darcus Howe was one of the great polemicists of our time

    Paul Boateng writes: Darcus Howe was a lot of fun, with a cultural hinterland of extraordinary depth
  • Black Power leader Michael X speaking at a rally in London in 1972.

    The story of the British Black Panthers through race, politics, love and power

    The experience of black people in the UK in the 1970s is examined in Guerrilla, a new drama series written by 12 Years a Slave screenwriter John Ridley. Now that story finds echoes in a powerful exhibition of photographs of the time

    • Darcus Howe: ‘He translated the anger of street protests into political action’

    • Darcus Howe obituary

    • Darcus Howe, writer, broadcaster and activist, dies aged 74

January 2017

  • Mangrove restaurant, Notting Hill

    British black power: from shrug to school syllabus in six short years

    With a TV series, film and first university course in 2017, the authors of a history of the UK movement reflect on its turnabout

December 2015

  • Oliver Letwin

    Oliver Letwin memo borders on criminality, says Darcus Howe

    Civil liberties campaigner condemns comments about black communities made in 1985 as David Cameron’s policy chief issues an apology

September 2015

  • The Specials at the Rock Against Racism/Anti Nazi League Carnival in Leeds, 1981

    Rock Against Racism: the Syd Shelton images that define an era

    Between 1976 and 1981, Britain’s youth tribes rose up against the National Front. As a new book of his pictures is published, photographer Syd Shelton talks about a unique moment in music culture

March 2015

  • Badfinger

    David Hepworth on radio
    Trash Can Radio, World Book Club and what else to listen to this week

    Mike Spenser’s station is flying the flag for garage rock and author Anne Tyler discusses her best loved novels

January 2015

  • Clara Amfo new radio 1 Xtra extra presenter in the studio at portland place, new broadcasting house.

    Music blog
    Down with Debrett’s: an alternative guide to UK music's most influential

    Caroline Sullivan
    Caroline Sullivan names her contenders for the msot infliential people in British music, in response to Debrett’s 500

June 2014

  • Greenslade
    A chance to remember Paul Foot, campaigning investigative journalist

    Tickets available for memorial meeting 10 years after his death

December 2013

  • Darcus Howe

    Britain's black power movement is at risk of being forgotten, say historians

    New biography of Darcus Howe claims struggle is ignored because it does not fit idea of Britain as 'utopia of fair play'

May 2013

  • New immigrants ... the Poles and other eastern Europeans are the master

    Nationalism gone mad is threatening democracy in Britain

    Darcus Howe
    Darcus Howe: We need immigrants and we should not be asking people to stamp on the head of those who serve our economy so well

August 2012

  • After capitalism
    After capitalism: 'We will return to the art of discourse' - video

    Writer and broadcaster Darcus Howe imagines a new political vernacular accessible to all. Animation by Alexandre Do and Tezo Kyungdon Lee

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