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Leighton Rhett Radford "Darcus" Howe (26 February 1943 – 1 April 2017) [1] [2] was a British broadcaster, writer [3] and racial justice campaigner. Originally from Trinidad , Howe arrived in England as a teenager in 1961, intending to study law and settling in London.
Darcus Howe; Elton Anthony Carlisle Inniss, [6] [7] aka Anthony Carlisle Innis, [5] was born in Morvant, Trinidad in 1947, into a wealthy and educated family. He was sent to England to get an education, and there met his Irish wife. He was a musician and passionate about African culture.
The British Black Panther Movement were under extensive State surveillance by the Special Branch's "Black Power Desk". Top-secret documents were uncovered by Robin Bunce and Paul Field while writing their political biography of Darcus Howe. The State sought to end the Black Power movement and imprison leading figures within the BPM. [31]
The New Cross fire, described by Darcus Howe in 2011 as "the blaze we cannot forget", is significant as a turning point in the relationship between Black Britons, the police and the media, and marks an "intergenerational alliance to expose racism, injustices and the plight of black Britons". [12]
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Launched in 1969 by the Institute of Race Relations, it was from 1973 published by the Race Today Collective, which included figures such as Darcus Howe, Farrukh Dhondy, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Leila Hassan and Jean Ambrose. The magazine was a leading organ of Black politics in 1970s Britain; publication ended in 1988.
During the trial of the Oval Four, Morris was arrested after a scuffle with police officers outside the Old Bailey alongside Darcus Howe and another person. The three were charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and took a political approach to their subsequent trial, requesting that members of the jury were either black, working ...