Dispatches from Africa and the Diaspora: #BlackLivesMatter Everywhere

July 29, 2016 – Segment 3BLM Everywhere

We talk with Dr. Kehinde Andrews, Chair of the Organization of Black Unity and Co-chair of the Black Studies Association and author of the book ‘Blackness in Britain’ and the forthcoming ‘The Politics of Black Radicalism’, Esther Stanford-Xosei Lawyer, jurisconsult, and community advocate Co-vice Chair of the Pan-Afrikan Reparations Coalition in Europe (PARCOE), and Azeezat Johnson PhD student at the University of Sheffield in the UK; her research includes work with Black Muslim women in Britain, with key interests Black feminism, the language of race in different contexts and decolonizing knowledge production within academic spaces. We discuss the future of the UK post-Brexit, and what Black Lives Matter has meant in the European context.