POLICE AND THE CRIMINALISING OF BRITISH AFRICAN YOUTHS
8 November 2021
7-10 pm (CET)
The ‘NEVER AGAIN’ Association in partnership with British Black Music are inviting you to an event titled: ‘Police And The Criminalising Of British African Youths’. Guest speaker: veteran communty activist, historian and educator Bro Cecil Gutzmore.
History consultant Kwaku leads with a video mash up presentation that highlights little-known and cause célèbre cases involving the police, the criminal justice system and groups of criminalised African youths, such as Tottenham Court Road Two, Stockwell Six, Oval Four, Mangrove Nine, Waterloo Four, Thornton Heath 15 and Bonfire Night 12.
Bro Cecil Gutzmore is a veteran community activist, historian and educator, a former University of West Indies lecturer whose work within the British African community activism stretches back to the late 1960s. He gives his take on several of the cases, some of which he has a personal experience of.
Followed by a discussion moderated by community activist Nana Asante.
In solidarity with all who have been victims of the police’s misuse of the sus law.
Please register here to join: https://bitly.com/MondayXHS2021. The link will be shared with people registered during the program day. Online via Zoom.
