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Black History River Cruise 10th November. (World War special)
November 10, 2019 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Event: Black History River Cruise 10th November. (World War special)
Start Date: 10 Nov 2019 12:00 pm
End Date: 10 Nov 2019 3:00 pm
Venue: Temple
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A three-hour cruise along the Thames from Temple to Vauxhall to Greenwich and back highlighting the hidden African/Caribbean history on display, which in some areas goes back 3500 years.. Video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCIMcpxJSyw
Your private, centrally heated, double-decker boat will start from the Temple Pier near Temple tube station on the Embankment. Your six-mile round trip includes unobstructed and spectacular views of both sides of the Thames riverbanks. With special historical guests Phyliss Wheatley, Nanny of the Maroons, Mary Prince, and Olaudah Equiano, not only will you get a unique informed historical commentary as we cruise, but you can ask questions of three giants of African-American, Caribbean and Nigerian literature.
The cruise will cover African Romans, ancient African art/engineering, Black Spitfire pilots, lost sugar warehouses, the Ivory trade, African diamonds, African Odysseys on the Southbank, the Apartheid Millenium Wheel, Olaudah Equiano, Nigerian oil, 20,000 Black people and their Day of Action, Civil Rights in the UK, Mary Seacole, To Sir With Love, Brown babies and Jim Crow, The Palace of Stolen Goods, West India Docks, Canary Wharf’s African roots, Kings College’s Caribbean connection, Guys Hospital and who really paid for it, the colour bar in nursing, Black Merchant Mariners, the river as a sewer, Black Shakespeare, Tate & Lyle and the Sugar Girls, Barbados and the National Rail Network, the REAL pirates of the Caribbean and much, much more! On this day we will pay special attention to the Windrush generation.
As this is Remembrance day we will include extra information on the massive African/Caribbean presence and contribution to World Wars 1 and 2 as well as the Napoleonic wars (1790s) all of which are normally ignored by mainstream history.
On the way back we will be listening to some Lovers Rock and 90s Soul music. Proceeds from this event will go the Black History Walks fundraiser for plaques in honour of five Black historical heroes:
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Dr Harold Moody 1930s Black British Civil Rights leader (Plaque unveiled 13th March 2019 at YMCA Great Russell Street)
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Phyllis Wheatley 1773 child genius, poet, author. (Plaque unveiled 16 July 2019 at Dorsett City Hotel Aldgate)
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Bill Richmond (1800s American/British champion boxer and community leader)
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Tom Molyneaux (1810 American champion boxer who should have been British champion but for cheating)
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Baron Baker (1950s Jamaican and Windrush street-fighter who defended the community out of Toto Bags Blues Club in Notting Hill)
Check Eventbrite for our Black History Bus tour, a circular three-hour guided double-decker drive starting from Brixton, in September and October. Watch out for African Odysseys at the BFI, great Black films every month of the year.
All plaques will be erected in association with Nubian Jak Community Trust http://nubianjak.org/category/plaques/
- Black History bus tour September 22nd
- Special screening of Captain Thomas Sankara at BFI Southbank 21st September
- Trafalgar Square, St Paul’s, Soho, Elephant & Castle, Notting Hill
- Tutankhamun’s hidden African history November 3rd
- The Black history of video games
- Black presence in the National Gallery
- Hero the Ulric Cross story
- African Superheroes day
- Black Scientists and Inventors
- How to move to the Caribbean and live Good September 21st
- Heroic Black Sailors of the 1800s
- Black Panthers REAL African history and the books to prove it
- Errol Barrow Freedom Fighter film at BFI Southbank 9th November
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