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The Children & Young People’s Resilience Workshop
Sat 09.10.2021 11:00-16:00
Only 15 places available! Tickets available via eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/170498571818
Harambee OBU Children & Young People's Department are pleased to announce this exciting one day in teractive workshop to support children transitioning from primary school to secondary school.
This Resilience Workshop is to support children of African Descent, who started Secondary School in September 2021, transition smoothly.
Transition points relate to stages within the life of a child’s journey through the school system that are the most stress inducing and challenging.
There will be 4 workshops over the course of the day. The children will journey through themes of Being; Becoming; Belonging; Beholding; Believing; Behaving; and Bonding.
The interactive workshops will include: group discussions, role play, games, cue cards and task orientated to target intra and interpersonal development designed to promote a positive self-image, to make affirming and sustainable choices.
Lunch will be provided on the day.
Tickets are available until 26.09.2021. Please book early to avoid disappointment.
For further information please email: cyp@blackunity.org.uk
Make it Plain and Harambee OBU hosted a conversation with Bernard Coard and a panel discussion reflecting on fifty years on from the publication of
How the West Indian Child Is Made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System.
The panel discussion featured Bernard Coard, Nia Imara (National Association of Black Supplementary Schools) and Marcia Anderson (Children of the Sun Saturday School).
The event raised £360 (after expenses) and all the proceeds were donated to the Marcus Garvey Centre that is opening in August 2021. A space for building our own community education.
Bernard Coard taught at his secondary school in Grenada on leaving at 18 and at Brandeis University’s ‘Upward Bound’ Summer Programme at 20 and 21. He studied at Brandeis University (Massachusetts, USA) and then Sussex University (UK). During the late 1960s and early '70s, Bernard ran youth clubs in Southeast London for children attending seven so-called ESN schools and taught at two others in East London. He subsequently taught at The University of The West Indies and at the Instit ute of Higher Studies, Netherlands Antilles. For 20 years, Coard set up and ran the Richmond Hill Prison Education Programme, Grenada (basic literacy to London University postgraduate degrees). He continues to teach at university level as a guest lecturer, in person and online.
The Harambee Organisation of Black Unity hostes a conversation between Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu and Kehinde Andrews around her new book
This is Why I Resist: Don't Define My Black Identity.
All proceeds from the event were donated to the continued restoration of the Marcus Garvey Centre in Handsworth, Birmingham.
In This is Why I Resist activist and political commentator, Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu digs down into the deep roots of racism and anti-blackness in the UK and the US. Using real life examples from the modern day, Dr Shola shows us the different forms racism takes in our day-to-day lives and asks us to raise our voice to end the oppression. She delves into subjects not often explored such as racial gatekeepers, white ingratitude, performative allyship (those black squares on Instagram), current identity politics and abuse of the Black trans community.
Where other books take White people by the hand to help them negotiate issues of race, This is Why I Resist offers no sugar-coated comfort, instead it challenges and asks WHEN will White people progress on race inclusion. Black Lives Matter and change is now. It's time for a conscious revolution.
Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu is a political and women's rights activist, qualified New York Attorney and Solicitor of England & Wales. She is the founder of the Women in Leadership Publication. She is a public speaker and political commentator in mainstream and online media, routinely making appearances on Sky News, This Morning, Good Morning Britain and CNN. This is Why I Resist is her first book.
Kehinde Andrews is chair of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity, editor-in-chief of Make it Plain and professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University. His latest book is The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World.
The Harambee Organisation of Black Unity hosted a launch for Kehinde Andrew's new book
The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World.
Dawn Butler MP and Kehinde discussed themes in the book and how relevant they are to the current moment.
All proceeds were donated to the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity's project to open the Marcus Garvey Centre, in Birmingham.
Dawn Butler is Labour MP for Brent South and served as Labour’s Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities between 2017-2020. Since returning to Parliament in 2015 has been awarded two Patchwork Foundation awards, having been voted People’s Choice 2016 Labour MP of the Year and next receiving the Overall MP of the Year award 2017. Dawn in one of the most outspoken voices for Black people in Britain and in 2020 named one of the 25 most influential women in the UK by Vogue.
About The Book
The West is rich because the Rest is poor. Capitalism is racism. The West congratulations itself on raising poverty by increments in the developing world while ignoring the fact that it created these conditions in the first place, and continues to perpetuate them. The Enlightenment, which underlies every part of our foundational philosophy today, was and is profoundly racist. This colonial logic was and is used to justify the ransacking of Black and brown bodies and their land. The fashionable solutions offered by the white Left in recent years fall far short of even beginning to tackle the West's place at the helm of a racist global order.Offering no easy answers, The New Age of Empire is essential reading to understand our profoundly corrupt global system. A work of essential clarity, The New Age of Empire is a groundbreaking new blueprint for taking Black Radical thought into the twenty-first century and beyond.
Kehinde Andrews
is Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, . At BCU he was also one of the team who founded the first undergraduate degree in Black Studies. Andrews regularly writes for the Guardian, the Independent, Ebony Magazine, and CNN. He has been featured on Good Morning Britain, Newsnight, Channel 4 News, BBC News Channel, and Under the Skin with Russell Brand. Andrews’s first book, Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement, was published in 2013 and he co-edited the first collection of British Black Studies, Blackness in Britain, in 2016. His latest book was Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century published by Zed books in 2018.
