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SUMMARY:Kuumba Imani: Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre: Black History Month 2
 3: In Conversation with Professor Gus John
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nLocation: The Kuumba Imani Millenium Centre\, 4 Princes 
 Road Liverpool L8 1TH\n\nTicket price: FREE\n\nDate: October 17\, 2023\nT
 ime: 6:30 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nGET FREE TICKETS\n\nProfessor Gus John and Dr Ama
  Biney\, discuss his two new titles Blazing Trails and Don’t Salvage th
 e Empire Windrush.\n\nSince the 1960’s Prof Gus john has been at the for
 efront of the struggle for racial equality and social justice. A pioneer o
 f the black working-class movement in education and of the black supplemen
 tary school movement\, he is a co-founder and current chair of the Communi
 ties Empowerment Network\, a charity providing advocacy and representation
  for excluded school students and their families.\n\nProf Gus John\, who 
 became the first black Director of Education in Britain is one of the gian
 ts whose shoulders we stand on today. Writing on the Wall and Kuumba Imana
  Millenium centre are proud to welcome him back to Liverpool to discuss hi
 s latest publications Blazing Trails and Don’t Salvage the Empire Windru
 sh with Dr Ama Biney who has taught Black British history\, African &amp
 \; Caribbean history for over 25 years in the community\, Further Educatio
 n and Higher Education Sectors.\n\nBlazing Trails is a collection of 22 s
 tories\, obituaries and eulogies in this book weave together lives from a 
 generation who dedicated themselves to the struggle for racial equality an
 d social justice in Britain. While those celebrated in this volume made a 
 significant contribution to post-war British social history in their chose
 n professions and as political and cultural activists\, they were ordinary
  folk who lived purposeful lives and did extraordinary things.\n\nIn Don
 ’t Salvage the Empire Windrush\, Gus John debunks the notion that the ar
 rival of the Empire Windrush on 22 June 1948 marked the beginning of the e
 volution and growth of multiracial Britain and the claim that the ‘Windr
 ush generation’ rebuilt post-war Britain and made it prosperous again. I
 t is a narrative that displaces the history of those settled black communi
 ties who struggled against racism and marginalisation in Britain since the
  19th century\, at least\, and those who fought for national independence 
 of the Black Commonwealth while building a global Pan-Africanist movement 
 right here in Britain.\n\n
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