In this warm and tender debut, the family of Barbados-born Lucinda must try to document her decades in Britain after the Home Office threatens her with deportation
There is a particular kind of Britis…
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‘Hurry for justice’: Windrush victims dying without redress, commissioner says ⊖⊖
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Clive Foster says action needed now to deliver justice to UK residents who had been wrongly classified as illegal immigrants
The Windrush commissioner has warned of a “hurry for justice” as more victi…
‘It’s about hurling yourself into the unknown’: Charmaine Watkiss on turning a UK museum upside down ⊕
The artist’s work resurfaces skills and knowledge that colonialism buried. She explains how her drawings and sculpture weave botanical illustration and traditional craft to engage with generational t…
Windrush and the rise of wandering Caribbean cricket clubs that fuelled talent in English game ○
Their history was in danger of being lost but a new book and project has put together an archive documenting such vibrant contributions to the game
In the early 1980s there were scores of “Caribbean” …
6 months ago
From enslavement to Windrush to Hurricane Melissa, Britain is still tearing Caribbean families apart | Nadine White ⊖
Leaving eight-year-old Lati-Yana Brown homeless and cut off from her mother should never have been sanctioned by the state
Britain’s long history with the Caribbean, from enslavement to the Windrush s…
7 months ago
Windrush commissioner: Black Britons asking if UK is ‘going backwards’ ⊖
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Rev Clive Foster says rhetoric targeting legal migrants makes some wonder if history is repeating itself
Black Britons are asking if the UK is “going backwards”, the Windrush commissioner has warned i…
Windrush victims to get 75% compensation upfront in scheme shake-up ⊖
The government's compensation scheme has faced intense criticism for being slow.
9 months ago
Windrush chief calls for urgent reform of payouts scheme ○
Exclusive: Rev Clive Foster says it is ‘deeply concerning’ 66 people have died while waiting for compensation
The Windrush commissioner has demanded “urgent reform” of the compensation scheme after be…
‘We made it our catwalk’: the photos showing Black British women’s Saturday night fashion through the ages ○
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Archivist Deborah Carnegie has gathered 70 years’ worth of photos of women from the Windrush generation to the present day getting ready for a big evening out – and changing the face of fashion in th…
Here’s the truth about Britain’s immigration hysteria: Starmer and co have whipped it up to get cheap votes | Nesrine Malik ○
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He is part of a political establishment that is fuelling a crisis way beyond the point that they can ever be seen to solve it. It’s a cynical, idiotic doom loop
Immigration has been a fixture of Brita…