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British Black Panthers, the Glossary

The British Black Panthers (BBP) or the British Black Panther movement (BPM) was a Black Power organisation in the United Kingdom that fought for the rights of black people and racial minorities in the country.^[1]

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Altheia Jones-LeCointe

Altheia Jones-LeCointe (born 9 January 1945) is a Trinidadian physician and research scientist also known for her role as a leader of the British Black Panther Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Barbara Beese

Barbara Beese (born 2 January 1946) is a British activist, writer, and former member of the British Black Panthers. British Black Panthers and Barbara Beese are African and Black nationalism in the United Kingdom.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Beverley Bryan

Beverley Bryan (born 18 August 1949) is a Jamaican educationist and retired academic who was a professor of language education at the University of the West Indies in Mona.

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Black British people

Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British people of either African or Afro-Caribbean descent. British Black Panthers and Black British people are black British history.

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Black Cultural Archives

Black Cultural Archives (BCA) is an archive and heritage centre in Brixton, London, devoted to the histories of people of African and Caribbean descent in Britain. British Black Panthers and Black Cultural Archives are black British history.

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Black Panther Party

The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California. British Black Panthers and black Panther Party are black Power.

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Black people

Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.

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Black power

Black power is a political slogan and a name which is given to various associated ideologies which aim to achieve self-determination for black people. British Black Panthers and black power are black Power.

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Black power movement

The black power movement or black liberation movement was a branch or counterculture within the civil rights movement of the United States, reacting against its more moderate, mainstream, or incremental tendencies and motivated by a desire for safety and self-sufficiency that was not available inside redlined African American neighborhoods. British Black Panthers and black power movement are black Power.

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Booker Prize

The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland. British Black Panthers and Booker Prize are 1968 establishments in the United Kingdom.

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British Asians

British Asians (also referred to as Asian Britons) are British people of Asian descent.

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Brixton

Brixton is an area of South London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England.

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Brixton Black Women's Group

The Brixton Black Women's Group (BWG) was an organisation for Black women in Brixton. British Black Panthers and Brixton Black Women's Group are black British history.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Darcus Howe

Leighton Rhett Radford "Darcus" Howe (26 February 1943 – 1 April 2017), BBC News, 2 April 2017.

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Dialectics of Liberation Congress

The congress on the Dialectics of Liberation was an international congress organised in London between 15 and 30 July 1967. British Black Panthers and Dialectics of Liberation Congress are black Power.

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Ebony (magazine)

Ebony is a monthly magazine that focuses on news, culture, and entertainment.

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Embassy of the United States, London

The Embassy of the United States of America in London is the diplomatic mission of the United States in the United Kingdom.

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Essay

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.

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Farrukh Dhondy

Farrukh Dhondy (born 1944) is an Indian-born British writer, playwright, screenwriter and left-wing activist who resides in the United Kingdom.

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Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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Forever Family (UK)

Forever Family (also known as the Forever Family Fund and the FF Force) is a grassroots anti-racism and black power organisation in the United Kingdom. British Black Panthers and Forever Family (UK) are African and Black nationalism in the United Kingdom, anti-racism in the United Kingdom, black British history and black Power.

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Frank Crichlow

Frank Gilbert Crichlow (13 July 1932 – 15 September 2010) was a British community activist and civil rights campaigner, who became known in 1960s London as a godfather of black power activism.

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Freida Pinto

Freida Selena Pinto (born 18 October 1984) is an Indian actress who has appeared mainly in American and British films.

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G. (novel)

G. is a 1972 novel by John Berger, set in pre-First World War Europe.

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Grosvenor Square

Grosvenor Square is a large garden square in the Mayfair district of Westminster, Greater London.

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Guerrilla (TV series)

Guerrilla is a British drama television series set in early 1970s London, against the backdrop of the Immigration Act 1971 and British black power movements such as the British Black Panthers and Race Today Collective.

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Ian Macdonald (barrister)

Ian Alexander Macdonald QC (2 January 1939 – 12 November 2019) was a Scottish barrister who was "a pioneer of committed anti-racist legal practice" in the UK.

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Immigration Act 1971

The Immigration Act 1971 (c. 77) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom concerning immigration and nearly entirely remaking the field of British immigration law.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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John Berger

John Peter Berger (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet.

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Kangaroo court

Kangaroo court is an informal pejorative term for a court that ignores recognized standards of law or justice, carries little or no official standing in the territory within which it resides, and is typically convened ad hoc.

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Ladbroke Grove

Ladbroke Grove is an area and a road in North Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, passing through Kensal Green and Notting Hill, running north–south between Harrow Road and Holland Park Avenue.

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Leila Hassan

Leila Hassan Howe (born 13 June 1948) is a British editor and activist, who was a founding member of the Race Today Collective in 1973, having previously worked for the Institute of Race Relations.

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Linton Kwesi Johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson OD (born 24 August 1952), also known as LKJ, is a Jamaica-born, British-based dub poet and activist.

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Liz Obi

Elizabeth Obi is a British activist who was involved in the feminist, black nationalist, and squatters' rights campaigns of the 1970s.

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Magna Carta

(Medieval Latin for "Great Charter of Freedoms"), commonly called Magna Carta or sometimes Magna Charta ("Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.

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Mala Sen

Mala Sen (3 June 1947 – 21 May 2011) was a Bengali-Indian-British writer and human rights activist. As an activist, she was known for her civil rights activism and race relations work in London during the 1960s and 1970s, as part of the British Asian and British Black Panthers movements, and later her women's rights activism in India.

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little, later el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz; May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) was an African-American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965.

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Mangrove Nine

The Mangrove Nine were a group of British Black activists tried for inciting a riot at a 1970 protest against the police targeting of The Mangrove, a Caribbean restaurant in Notting Hill, West London. British Black Panthers and Mangrove Nine are black British history.

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Neil Kenlock

Neil Emile Elias Kenlock (born 1950) is a Jamaican-born photographer and media professional who has lived in London since the 1960s. British Black Panthers and Neil Kenlock are black British history.

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Obi Egbuna

Obi Benue Egbuna (18 July 1938 – 18 January 2014) was a Nigerian-born novelist, playwright and political activist known for leading the Universal Coloured People's Association (UCPA) and being a member of the British Black Panther Movement (1968–72) during the years when he lived in England, between 1961 and 1973.

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Olive Morris

Olive Elaine Morris (26 June 1952 – 12 July 1979) was a Jamaican-born British-based community leader and activist in the feminist, black nationalist, and squatters' rights campaigns of the 1970s. British Black Panthers and Olive Morris are black British history.

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Palestinian territories

The Palestinian territories, also known as the Occupied Palestinian Territory, consist of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip—two regions of the former British Mandate for Palestine that have been occupied by Israel since the Six-Day War of 1967.

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Person of color

The term "person of color" (people of color or persons of color; abbreviated POC) is primarily used to describe any person who is not considered "white".

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Police brutality

Police brutality is the excessive and unwarranted use of force by law enforcement against an individual or a group.

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Police raid

A police raid is an unexpected visit by police or other law enforcement officers with the aim of using the element of surprise to seize evidence or arrest suspects believed to be likely to hide evidence, resist arrest, endanger the public or officers if approached through other means, or simply be elsewhere at another time.

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Political blackness

The notion of "political blackness" arose in the United Kingdom in the 1970s, advocating for "black" as an umbrella term to refer to all people in the UK who were likely to experience discrimination based on skin colour; i.e., anyone who was not white. British Black Panthers and Political blackness are black British history.

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Race Today

Race Today was a monthly (later bimonthly) British political magazine. British Black Panthers and Race Today are black British history.

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Racism

Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Roundhouse (venue)

The Roundhouse is a performing arts and concert venue situated at the Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England.

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South London

South London is the southern part of London, England, south of the River Thames.

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Southall Black Sisters

Southall Black Sisters (SBS) is a non-profit organisation based in Southall, West London, England.

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Special Branch (Metropolitan Police)

Special Branch was a unit in the Metropolitan Police in London, formed as a counter-terrorism unit in 1883 and merged with another unit to form Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) in 2006.

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Stokely Carmichael

Kwame Ture (born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941November 15, 1998) was an American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement. British Black Panthers and Stokely Carmichael are black Power.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Black_Panthers

Also known as British Black Panther Movement.

, Race Today, Racism, Roundhouse (venue), South London, Southall Black Sisters, Special Branch (Metropolitan Police), Stokely Carmichael, Tate Britain, The Black Panther (newspaper), The Guardian, The Mangrove, United Kingdom, United States, Vivan Sundaram.

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See also

African and Black nationalism in the United Kingdom

Anti-racism in the United Kingdom

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