'Reggae All Nighter'
Poster for an evening of films shown at the Triangle Media and Arts Centre, organised jointly with West Midlands Ethnic Minority Arts Service (WEMAS), on 6 March 1987 from 11.15pm to 8.00am. The poster ...
ResearchingThe West Indies.
Birmingham and The West Indies.
Birmingham's antislavery activists held a special interest in the West Indies. The reader's list for this travel narrative includes here both Joseph Sturge and other ...
Rev Peter Stanford.
Stanford was born into slavery in America in 1860. He came to Birmingham in 1887 as a preacher in Hope Street Baptist Church, Highgate. This possibly makes him Birmingham's first black minister. He also ...
Revd Bazil Meade
Revd Bazil Meade, Founder of the London Community Gospel Choir: "The thing is to get educated, learn how the system works, and work within it. The system can work against young black males, but the key ...
Rt Hon Paul Boateng
Rt Hon Paul Boateng, MP: "I see life as a series of opportunities, and you make the most of them. You give of yourself, and of what skills and talents you have. Everyone has something to offer in terms ...
Ruby Turner
Ruby Turner, photographed at Reggae Sunsplash, Clapham Common, London, 1987. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Samaj in'a Babylon
Samaj in’a Babylon MS 1591 Paul Mackney Collection
As well as ‘traditional’ socialist newspapers and magazines, support for the ‘Grunwick’ strikers also came from within ethnic minorities. Samaj ...
School photo c.1993
"This is a school photograph. I remember starting at my local school in Ersel..."
"My first memory is being the first black person in the classroom, and everybody's looking at you. I was nervous actually..."
"The ...
'Shaken Roots'
Poster for an exhibition of photographs of the experiences of the San people of Namibia, taken by Orde Eliason, Paul Weinberg, Jurgen Schadeber and Louis Fourie, shown at the Triangle Photography Gallery, ...
Sir Herman Ouseley
Sir Herman Ouseley, Former Chair and Executive of the Commission for Racial Equality: "You've got to take some responsibility for your life and the things going on around you, not just leave it to others. ...
Smiley Culture
Smiley Culture, photographed at Reggae Sunsplash, Clapham Common, London, 1987. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Steel Pulse
Steel Pulse is a Birmingham-based reggae band. The band was formed in around 1975 whilst its members were still at school when they would meet on a Sunday to play cover versions of their favourite songs ...
Steve Nisbett of Steel Pulse: Drummer
Steve Nisbett, photographed in Handsworth, Birmingham, 2003. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Stevie Wonder: American Vocalist / Producer
Born Steveland Judkins in Michigan in 1950, Stevie Wonder was photographed in Birmingham, 1989. From the collection "Muzik Kinda Sweet" by Pogus Caesar/OOM Gallery Archive.
Sunday School Anniversary Parade
Methodist Sunday School Anniversary Parade, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.
Syan Blake
Syan Blake, Actor: "My definition of success is a life in which you regret nothing."
Photograph by Robert Taylor. Produced for the book 'Portraits of Black Achievement: composing successful careers' ...
Sybil Phoenix MBE
Sybil Phoenix MBE, Founder and Director of Marsh Phoenix Memorial Trust: "The most challenging aspect is the counselling work that I do. It makes you weep and it makes you happy. It's difficult but rewarding. ...
Testimony
Testimony, African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion, Wolverhampton. Photograph by Nick Hedges for the exhibition 'I'm a Believer - Religion in the West Midlands'.