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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, British civil rights activist; as Leighton Rhett Radford Howe, in Moruga, Trinidad (d. 2017) Died: Nazi SS Obergruppenführer Theodor Eicke, 50, ...
Darcus Howe, 74, Trinidadian-born British civil rights activist, member of the Mangrove Nine. [11] Ikutaro Kakehashi, 87, Japanese engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Ace Tone and Roland Corporation. [12] Kim Jong-gil, 90, South Korean poet. [13]
Darcus Howe, writer and broadcaster ... Carpenter died on 4 January 2005, this was his last Great Lives programme 1; Series 7, April–June 2005. Guest
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]
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]
In 2004, English Heritage unveiled a blue plaque in Brixton, London, [54] at 165 Railton Road (a building that housed the offices of Darcus Howe's Race Today Collective), inscribed: "C. L. R. JAMES 1901–1989 West Indian Writer and Political Activist lived and died here". [89] [90] [91]
Darcus Howe, Trinidadian-born British civil rights activist (d. 2017) February 27 – Morten Lauridsen, ... Wilhelm Lorenz, German general (died of wounds) (b. 1894)