West and Vander Gucht began collaborating in September 2014 and released their debut album, also called Oh Wonder, a year later. The way in which the slave trade corrupted British principles was a frightening lesson in how a country can go backwards. It was first used in the opening series in 2015. By completing your purchase you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. The comment box is open! He was a councillor…, The University’s committed to promoting equality is further demonstrated through its working on the Gender, LGBT and Race…, The University of Lincoln’s award-winning city centre campus provides a modern student-centred environment. In fact, it has had a theme since the days when it was just Negro History Week. The Real Thing ‘4 From 8’ 1977 Labrinth ‘Electronic Earth’ 2012 But in the meantime you can read last year’s edition absolutely free online. Craig David ‘Born To Do It’ 2000 Imagination ‘Body Talk’ 1981 Courtney Pine ‘Journey To The Urge Within’ 1986 A fourth series is due to air later in 2020, Black History Month: Netflix's top TV series and documentaries about racial injustice, Spitting Image: Why it’s the perfect time for a comeback, The Secret Garden: New film adaptation of beloved children's novel heads to Sky Cinema, Sky Cinema on NOW TV: The best movies for October, What to watch on NOW TV in October - from The Undoing to Riviera season 3, What to watch on Prime Video in October - from Utopia to Truth Seekers. This is a very important book that should be read by British people of whatever ethnicity. A chart-topping album, its beats were copied by others for years. Unflinching, confronting taboos and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how black and white Britons have been intimately entwined for centuries. Beverley Knight ‎’Who I Am’ 2002 Osibisa ‘Osibisa’ 1971 Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, Switch between reading the Kindle book & listening to the Audible narration with, Get the Audible audiobook for the reduced price of £2.99 after you. He’s the founder of BritishBlackMusic.com/Black Music Congress, which focuses on domestic black music, discussions and networking, and music industry issues and education. No I’m a Londoner”. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 November 2017. Incognito ‘Vibes & Scribes’ 1992 The theme speaks, therefore, to the ongoing struggle on the part of both black men and black women for the right to vote. I decided that this was one of those books that one "ought" to read with the expectation that it would be a longer version of those Guardian articles which compare the British to the perpetrators of the Holocaust. Based on the picturesque Brayford…, We want to be the place where everyone can fulfil their full potential. Charing Ball talks to … I also love African-Caribbean artists such as Culture, Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, Third World, Buju Banton, Garnett Silk and Tarrus Riley, not to mention continental African artists such as Angelique Kidjo and Lucky Dube. This Brummie band helped define the British reggae band sound with songs about Marcus Garvey, Rastafari, and disenfranchised African youth vignettes. Where can I find the educational video on British Black music? The opening track ‘Swinging’ powerfully showed off the band’s jazz-funk chops – riffing guitars and horns, phat b-line, and irresistible percussive grooves. Light Of The World ‘Light Of The World’ 1979 David Adetayo Olusoga OBE (born January 1970) is a British historian, writer, broadcaster, presenter and film-maker.He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. £7.99/month after 30 days. They have a sizable online following and the video for the song (below) has gained more than 16 million views on streaming site YouTube. The haunting tune that accompanies the titles on Unforgotten is a song called All We Do. Garage rapper Ms Dynamite demonstrated her talent as an R&B singer, with a little reggae in the mix, on this Mercury Prize winner. The only album by this group from Brent, it contains two crossover Brit-funk hits, ‘Hi Tension’ and ‘British Hustle’, which respectively made the top 20 and 10. He has presented historical documentaries on the BBC and contributed to The One Show and The Guardian. Prime members enjoy fast & free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Prime Video and many more exclusive benefits. Alongside stars Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar, one constant of all three seasons has been the show’s popular title music. There's a problem loading this menu at the moment. This includes crossover hits like the reggae-infused ‘Just Keep Rockin’’, though on ‘Street Tuff’, he had reason for explaining himself by rapping “Is he a Yankee? FBI ‘F.B.I.’ 1992 Unable to add item to List. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. The disgraceful way in which the black populations in the West Indies were treated after emancipation was new to me but the most disturbing revelation was the blatant racism of the post war Labour governments from Attlee to Wilson and Callaghan that came as a real shock. So I decided to approach this piece by focusing on the albums on that wall that I have owned or consumed via streaming, and include a few not featured in the exhibition. Their track, Lose It, appeared in series three, episode two of Our Girl in 2017. In 2016, Oh Wonder’s music was used in Collide, an action film starring Anthony Hopkins, Nicholas Hoult, Felicity Jones and Ben Kingsley. That’s in part why there’s a paucity of albums of the late 2000s. Dy-Na-Mi-Tee! Thoroughly researched and far ranging, David Olusoga's book is topical, necessary, and provides an overview of a neglected element of British history, as well as being essential reading for the contemporary debate about the role (or even existence) of black people in Britain throughout the ages. Home > The pair’s music has featured in a number of television shows. 1’ 1989 2 | Black History Month magazine. Of course this list is subjective. David Olusoga's Black and British is a rich and revealing exploration of the extraordinarily long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa. Series 1-3 of Unforgotten can be viewed now on Netflix. Emeli Sande ‘Our Version of Events’ 2012 From the moment one hears the rocking breakbeats, classy arrangements and Emeli’s dulcet tones on ‘Heaven’, a pleasing listening experience is assured. Music activities are posted at www.BBM.eventbrite.com and African history events at www.AfricanHistoryPlus.eventbrite.com. On the BCA mural are Stormzy’s 2017 chart-topping ‘Gang Signs & Prayer’ and Skepta’s ‘Konnichiwa’, which reached no. Fela Ransome-Kuti & Nigeria 70 ‘Fela’s London Scene’ 1994 Cymande ‘Cymande’ 1972 Further songs from their self-titled debut album, Technicolour Beat and Shark were used in episodes during 2015. A fourth series is due to air later in 2020 and filming was well under way in the spring when lockdown began. Accounts of court judgements back to the sixteenth century insisting that justice was colour blind and that there was no basis for slavery in England slipped into increasing support for industrial scale slave trading.