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”One Night in Miami” Regina King on directing “One Night in Miami” The Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress makes her film directorial debut with an acclaimed story, set in the 1960s, of a re-imagined meeting of four Black icons – Malcolm X, Cassius Clay, Jim Brown and Sam Cooke – discussing the civil rights movement. Regina King talks with CBS News’ Michelle Miller about her artistic ambitions, her promotion of social justice, and the blessings of her fruitful career. Credit:CBS Transform your viewing...
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In closing, and to balance this piece, some White media members try to balance the debate by finding information that sums the issue up accurately. LBC’s James O’Brien is one.
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t does not matter how many times racism comes up until the people born with White privilege accept that it exists; nothing will change. More to the point, until Blackowned media stop adopting White narratives to tell Black peoples’ stories, those stories will always be skewed to what is palatable for White audiences, listeners or readers. Well done, Alex Beresford, television presenter at ITV, for standing your ground in a heated debate with Piers Morgan, former ITV anchor on ‘Good Morning Britain’ earlier this week. Alex points out that it is difficult to be comfortable talking about the uncomfortable, and he is correct. The debate about the interview with Harry and Meghan will rage on for a long time as long as it is newsworthy and sells. Ofcom, the media watchdog, received over 41,015 complaints about the incident, and the ripple effect for the media is huge. The media is considered the Fourth Estate. “In a representative democracy, the role of the press is twofold: it both informs citizens and sets up a feedback loop between the government and voters.” [see page 8]. Alex went on to say that the lighter you are [skin colour], the more comfortable they [White people] feel talking to you. I can identify with that. I am not mixed-race, both of my deceased parents were Black, but that did not stop the questions coming, “Is your father White?” or “was your mother a White woman?” It also meant that White people had no problems making comments about them [Black people] to me because I was not like them, except when I got cross and switched to Jamaican patois, which left them horrified.
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The Heritage of The Negro (1965)
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Examines the civilization of ancient Africa and its significance to the American Negro. Shows that white historians ignore old civilizations of Africa below the Sahara. Explores this little - known past through art and pageantry. Features Ossie Davis and Dr. John Henrik Clark. Credit: Reelblack
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This cultural shift has resulted in more contemporary art forms such as music videos treated more like art than simply promotional material for the musical artists. In 2017, his first art short film Black Mary was commissioned by Tate Modern. The film pays homage to revolutionary black Jazz photographer Roy Decarava. It fuses Joseph’s love of documentary, photography, music, and dance. The piece enthralls viewers for 6 minutes while Alice Smith blesses the video with angelic vocals. The installation was included in the Soul of a Nation exhibition: Art in the Age of Black Power.
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ahlil Joseph is the enigmatic video artist most known for directing Beyonce’s Lemonade visual album in 2016. While lauded for her lyricism and vocals, it was the accompanying visuals from Joseph that cemented Beyonce as one of the most dynamic artists of that year. The film had images that will live long in the memory. While further known for his videos with Kendrick Lamar and Sampha, Kahil is just well regarded in the video art scene with Biennale representation, worldwide exhibitions, and awards. His foray into video art started with a cinematic film for Flying Lotus titled Until the Quiet Comes which earned him a spot at the ICA Philadelphia exhibition Ruffneck Constructivists in 2011. Joseph’s beginnings in video art stem from the art world taking black creatives more seriously.
He represents a new black artist, straying away from paint and sculpture. A new black artist that uses the contemporary dominant modes of art to affect social change. Like Steve McQueen, he is a video artist that managed to pierce mainstream culture through a more predominant art form. Joseph remains at the forefront of new wave black video artists pushing the culture forward.
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Moxie Netflix
Fed up with the sexist and toxic status quo at her high school, a shy 16-year-old finds inspiration from her mother’s rebellious past and anonymously publishes a zine that sparks a schoolwide, coming-of-rage revolution. Based on the novel by Jennifer Mathieu. Directed by Amy Poehler. Credit: Netflix
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The Old Settler (2001) Phylicia Rashad Debbie Allen Bumper Robinson Quilly, newly separated from her husband, has come to live with her never-married sister Elizabeth. She is dismayed to learn that her cashstrapped sibling has rented a room in their modest Harlem apartment to a handsome young boarder, Husband Witherspoon. A naive country boy, Husband has traveled from rural South Carolina to search for his hometown sweetheart, Lou Bessie. Credit:reelblack
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Malcolm and Marie
When filmmaker Malcolm (John David Washington) and his girlfriend Marie (Zendaya), return home from a movie premiere and await his film’s critical response, the evening takes a turn as revelations about their relationship surface, testing the couple’s love. Credit: Netflix
Coach Carter
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The Best of Enemies
Based on a true story, THE BEST OF ENEMIES centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater (Henson), an outspoken civil rights activist, and C.P. Ellis (Rockwell), a local Ku Klux Klan leader who reluctantly co-chaired a community summit, battling over the desegregation of schools in Durham, North Carolina during the racially-charged summer of 1971. The incredible events that unfolded would change Durham and the lives of Atwater and Ellis forever. Credit: STX films
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A young African American woman, has dreams of becoming an artist, but is stuck running the family hardware store for her overbearing father. When she asserts her independence by traveling to Africa she returns with a fiancé who is not quite what he seems. LOVE JACKED taps into the new wave of popular African American comedies, while focusing on the complicated relationship between father and daughter. Credit: Alfons Adetuyi
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No Good Deed - Official Trailer
Terri (Taraji P. Henson) is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin (Idris Elba), a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family. Credit: Sony Pictures Entertainment Transform your viewing...
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Pelé Official Trailer
PELÉ tells the miraculous story of the legendary soccer player’s rise to glory from a young boy, to the 17 year old who scored the winning goal in Brazil’s first ever World Cup victory in 1958. From a life full of disadvantages and an impoverished youth in Brazil, Pelé used his unorthodox yet authentic style of play and his unbeatable spirit to overcome all odds, find greatness and inspire a country that he changed forever. Credit: IFC Films
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The Climb
For you, I’d climb Mount Everest!” It would have been better if Samy had kept quiet that day... Particularly as Nadia doesn’t really believe in his lofty talk. And yet... Because of his love for her, Samy leaves the projects where he lives behind and sets out to climb the mythical 8848 meters that make Everest the roof of the world. His departure excites his friends, then the whole ‘hood, and before long all of France, who get caught up in the emotion generated by the feats of this young, ordinary guy who’s in love. His adventure is a message of hope: each of us can invent our future, because anything is possible. Credit:UniFrance
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Extended Cut: ‘227’ Cast Shares Memories Of The Classic Sitcom 227” stars Marla Gibbs, Regina King, Jackee Harry Jackée, Hal Williams and Curtis Baldwin discuss working on the classic 1980s sitcom during a 2010 interview with TODAY’s Al Roker. Credit: TODAY
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ive years ago, incensed by the the late Chadwick Boseman, Riz Ahmed, Daniel lack of black representation in TV Kaluuya, Delroy Lindo, LaKeith Stanfield, Andra and film awards, the organisers of Day and Viola Davis, all people of colour. the #OscarsSoWhite movement Yet, criticism of the lack of diversity had been demanded change in a bid to persuade made within the television industry five years the powers that be at the Academy to recognise before when the actress Regina King wrote an more diverse talent. As a result, a whole raft of opinion piece in the Huffington Post entitled gradual reforms have been Emmys: White as Ever. Among instigated so that black and her slating complaints were that Asian representation both out of roughly 1,000 nominations on and off-screen will be in the top Emmy categories, only introduced fully in time for 53 non-white actors had ever the 2025 awards. been nominated. The same thing has If she thought it might have happened here in Britain. sounded the death-knell for her Stung by criticism from the chances of winning Emmys in the likes of Steve McQueen who future she was wrong. She has last year branded the Baftas won no fewer than four - two for as “irrelevant” (Micheal Supporting Actress for American Ward was the only black Crime in 2015 and 2016, one for If Beale Street Could Talk winner, and only in the Rising lead actress in Seven Seconds Star category), the British in 2018, and last year for Lead Academy of Film and Television Arts has made Actress in Watchmen. more than 120 changes to its voting, membership And this year, Regina King is in the running and campaigning processes to ensure greater for best director for her debut movie One Night diversity. in Miami which is also predicted to be nominated Already, we can see the difference. The for best picture at the Oscars. It’s the first film by film nominations for this year in the various an African-American woman to be shown at the prestigious Venice film festival. organisations’ leading roles category include Transform your viewing...
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“Watchmen” Star Regina King Reacts To Her Most Iconic Roles. “Watchmen” star Regina King takes us for a trip down memory lane as she looks back at her most iconic roles, including working with the late, great John Witherspoon and her Oscar-winning performance in “If Beale Street Could Talk”. Credit: BuzzFeed Uk
It would be churlish to suggest that King’s inclusion is only down to her colour, and that she has only gained from a new “tick box” culture. For King is no stranger to the Hollywood red carpet. Her performance in the 2018 movie If Beale Street Could Talk earned her both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Regina King’s career began on television when she was still at school with the series 227 in which she played the part of Brenda Jenkins for the full five years that the series ran. Her talent was spotted early by someone who, like King, has risen to become another black star actress, Viola Davis. “She became every young black girl in America. I saw myself in her, and I saw an actor bring that to life.” Now 50, King was born in Los Angeles to an electrician father and a special education teacher mother. She has a younger sister, also an actress, called Reina. In Latin, Regina means Queen and Reina is Spanish for Queen, so both girls are Queen King! Her parents split when Regina was eight and she has paid tribute to the strength of her mother for raising her and her sister alone. She has a 24-year-old son from a marriage to a movie executive 24 Transform your viewing...
Ian Alexander. The couple divorced in 2007. She once said, “If your woman is asleep every time you get home, she’s just really tired. Of you.” Her break into films came with the Boyz n the Hood in 1991 about teenagers in South Central LA. Another film in which she appeared and set in the same location was Friday (1995) that has become something of a cult comedy. She also starred in mainstream hits such as Jerry Maguire, Enemy of the State, Ray, Miss Congeniality2 and Legally Blonde 2. Her film One Night in Miami is adapted by Kemp Powers from his own stage play. It’s inspired by a real-life encounter in 1964 between four icons of black culture and politics, Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Ron Brown and Sam Cooke. They get together in a hotel on the night Clay has just beaten Sonny Liston in their first fight to become heavyweight champion of the world. The four get involved in an intense discussion about American civil rights. Clay announces he’s about to join the Nation of Islam and change his name to Muhammad Ali. Malcolm X surprises the group by saying he’s about to quit that same organisation to embrace Sunni Islam. Ron Brown announces he’s quitting American football for a movie career, while singer Sam Cooke is happy being a popular singer for both black and white audiences. Actress Regina King at the 92nd Academy Awards held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, USA on February 9, 2020. — Stock Image
THE TRUE HISTORY BEHIND ‘ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI’
Malcolm X is played by Kingsley Ben-Adir, a Brit. Regina King has coaxed an exceptional performance from him. Only three years ago, he was playing the minor TV role of Marcus, the forensic scientist in Vera. His character chides Sam Cooke for not engaging in the black struggle for civil rights in the same way as Bob Dylan was politicising white folks with his songs. Cooke counters by saying his increasing work as a producer is giving black people more economic opportunities. It’s a nuanced examination of confrontation versus evolution and the film is well-timed as the Black Lives Matter movement is in the public consciousness not only in the United States but around the world. Activism is in Regina King’s blood. As the subject of the American version of the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?, she discovered that her great, great grandfather on her mother’s side, had come
out of slavery to become a local civil rights activist in Alabama. He was blacklisted by the authorities who described him as an example of “incendiary negroes of Tuskaloosa who have made themselves particularly odious to the superior race by their threatening words and punishable acts.” Regina King’s standing up for black actors and for women too, would doubtless have made her great great grandfather proud.
One Night in Miami A look at Regina King’s directorial debut of One Night in Miami… What happens when Cassius Clay, Malcolm X, Jim Brown, and Sam Cooke find themselves in the same room. Credit: Amazon prime Video
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amaica is ethnically diverse country as reflected in the motto ‘out of many, one people’. That said, Jamaicans of African descent make up over 90% of the country’s population. The earliest inhabitants of Jamaica, were the indigenous Redware people, followed by the Tainos and the Arawacks. Enslaved Africans were first brought to Jamaica by the Spanish, who colonised the island in 1494 and named it Santiago, wiping out the Indigenous population. When the British colonised Jamaica in 1655, they trafficked enslaved Africans to the island to work on the numerous sugar plantations which quickly became a booming a lucrative industry for the British empire. A trade route emerged called the Triangular Trade, whereby slaves were trafficked from Africa to the Caribbean, they in turn produced sugar, molasses and rum which were exported to England for sale, and the money made financed the return to Africa to trade more slaves. Jamaica was at one time considered the ‘crown jewel’ of the British empire, and at the peak of production in 1805, Jamaica produced over 100,000 tonnes of sugar.
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One of the most famous slave resistance leaders in Jamaican history is Queen Nanny, the leader of a community called the Windward Maroons. Queen Nanny was an extraordinary military tactician who outsmarted the British army on numerous occasions, despite them being larger in number and with superior weaponry. In 1740 the British forces conceded defeat and allocated the Windward Maroons 500 acres of land, today known as Moor Town, on the condition that they would not assist the escape of any more slaves. In 1976 the Jamaican government declared Queen Nanny a national hero, and she appears on the Jamaican $500 dollar bill. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica came in stages. British Parliament formally abolished slavery in 1807, though it continued in practice, until another bill was passed in 1833. Enslaved Africans became apprentices, though they continued to work for the same masters. Total emancipation came five years later in 1838. One of the most prominent Jamaicans of the 19th century was Marcus Garvey, a political activist and Pan-Africanist born in 1887. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, also known as the UNIA. His teaching
and activism sought to end European colonial rule across Africa, and to unite Africans and the African diaspora. Jamaica gained its independence from Britain in 1962, when the Jamaican Independence Act was passed, though it remains part of the British Commonwealth, and the British monarch Queen Elizabeth II remains the head of state. To this day, African influences are deeply embedded into Jamaican culture, from food, to music, to religion. Classic Jamaican dishes such as rice and peas, jerk chicken and callaloo as well as the use of ingredients such as yam, ackee and plantain, all speak to the West-African culinary influences brought to Jamaican by their enslaved African forbearers. African-influenced religions in Jamaica include Myal, Revival and Kumina which incorporate elements of African spirituality. Perhaps the most famous spiritual movement to originate in Jamaica is the Rastafari movement, which developed during the 1930 among impoverished Afro-Jamaican communities. In 1933, clergyman Leonard Howell began preaching about the significance of Haile Selassie being crowned the emperor of Ethiopia, saying that it fulfilled a Biblical prophecy, and Haile Selassie was the second coming of Christ. The movement grew rapidly, as many followers were drawn to Howell’s Afrocentric, anti-establishment teachings, which rejected European colonial rule. The Rastafari movement gained international recognition with the popularity of Rasta-inspired reggae music, of which the most famous proponent was reggae legend and Rastafarian, Bob Marley. Although the movement declined somewhat in the
1980s following the deaths of Haile Selassie and Bob Marley, the Rastafari movement remains strong in many countries across the world, from the UK to Japan, to South Africa, to Peru. As mentioned, Reggae music has become an internationally popular genre of music, pioneered by musician Bob Marley. Reggae music evolved in the 1960s from an earlier Jamaican musical genre called Ska. Reggae music was characterised by politically conscious lyrics which highlighted social issues and injustices. The 1972 Jamaican movie ‘The Harder They Come’ depicted reggae music as a conduit of musical and political expression for the poor and oppressed in Jamaica, and introduced Reggae music to a global audience. Through his music, Bob Marley, arguably the most famous Reggae singer and one of the highest selling artists of all time, became an international icon, synonymous with the Rastafari movement and with wider Jamaican culture. Other notable black Jamaicans not already mentioned in include the activist Claude McKay, musician Pete Tosh, politician and former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and the world-record holding, Olympic medallist, Usain Bolt.
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rrol is remarkable. Since surviving prostate cancer, he has transformed himself from patient to preacher urging men to ‘man up’ and get themselves checked because ignorance is not bliss. Errol would like prostate cancer checks for men to become as routine as smear tests are for women. Now the fearless advocate, Errol has amassed a number of accolades, including carrying the Olympic torch in 2012, being given the ‘Points of Light’ award by the former Prime Minister Theresa May in 2015 and being included in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list and made a ‘Member of the British Empire’ [MBE] in June 2020.
When did your journey with prostate cancer start? I founded ‘The Errol Mckellar Foundation’ after being diagnosed in 2010 during a visit to the hospital for a snoring issue. While waiting to see the doctor, I read a leaflet about prostate cancer and took a blood test on the spot. I needed further tests, scans and a biopsy which revealed that my prostate was covered in cancer, unbeknown to me. Without the diagnosis I would have been dead within six months. I was off work for 6 gruelling months which included radical surgery and 3 months of radiotherapy.
Now a Prostate cancer advocate, what keeps you determined to knock down barriers? In 2013, after giving a hygiene health talk at a local school followed by a talk on prostate issues, a 6 year old young boy said, ‘sir, when I grow up I am going to fix that prostate’. A few years later, I encountered him again when his mother thanked me saying her son delighted in reading morning
and night. Albeit a few years later, he still had the same steely look of determination that he was going to fix ‘that prostate’. This was big inspiration for me.
How did the mobile testing van idea originate? First some statistics: 1 in 12 Asian men, 1 in 8 European men and 1 in 4 African-Caribbean men are likely to die from prostate cancer. The odds increase if there is a history of prostate cancer and breast cancer in their family. African-Caribbean men are known to resist the invasive rear passage procedure and I desperately sought a solution to the problem. One day my wife asked if her car broke down, what would I do? I would of course go out with my recovery truck to fix her car. So we decided to bring the hospital to the men. With modern technology detecting cancerous cells is straightforward – this mobile van would allow men to take a simple 10 minute PSA [Prostate Specific Antigen] blood test and get their results within 35-40 minutes. It will work like a traffic light system: green = all is ok; orange = beware, you may need further monitoring and red = you need urgent investigation. Our focus is to get the mobile testing van on the road this year, starting in Essex and London, and eventually rolling out the system nationwide.
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ovie pundits can look forward to a new p ortrayal of the life of Jamaica’s first hero Marcus Garvey in the upcoming Amazon movie entitled Marked Man. Directed by Andrew Dosunmu, the film is said to be inspired in part by Colin Grant’s biography ‘Negro With A Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey’. It will see Tobaganian actor Winston Duke portraying Garvey. Commenting on his selection to play the role of the famed Jamaican who broke barriers and was a great advocate for the Back to Africa Movement, Duke took to his Instagram account to share his feelings. “Man, where do I begin. As a Caribbean immigrant, activist, and global citizen, one of the most seminal stories in my development has been the words and works of Marcus Garvey. Today I am blessed to announce that I have the opportunity to bring his story to life, along with a kick ass crew of collaborators. It’s not lost on me how important and meaningful this is, not only for the generations that already know his contributions to the Black liberation landscape but for those who have yet to know and embrace him and what he stood for. Can’t wait to step into this one and bring you all along for the amazing journey,” he wrote. Duke is no stranger to the acting scene as he is best known for his role as M’Baku in the 2018 blockbuster film Black Panther. He was also featured in Avengers, Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame in 2019. According to information on Deadline about the movie, it will be set in the 1920s and will follow a young black man who joins J. Edgar Hoover’s Federal Bureau of Investigation and then infiltrates Garvey’s UNIA organization, testing his loyalty to both race and country as he grows weary of both men’s actions.
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Born Marcus Aurelius Moziah Garvey August 17, 1887, in St Ann, Jamaica he was conferred with the Order of the National Hero in 1969 as per the second schedule of the National Honours and Awards Act. Throughout his career, Garvey travelled to many countries making his presence felt in them as he pushed his strong black agenda, batting for the poor working class black people. In 1914 he started the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in Jamaica. The UNIA, which grew into an international organisation, encouraged self-government for black people worldwide; self-help economic projects and protest against racial discrimination. He was imprisoned and then deported from the United States for his doctrines of freedom to the oppressed blacks throughout that country as USA official frowned on his activities. There was hope that Marcus Garvey would have been post humously exonerated for the crime by President Barack Obama before he demitted office. However, although he issued hundreds of pardons, Garvey was not one of them.
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hile there’s little else in this sequel to justify its existence as anything other than a decades-too-late cash grab, there’s something to be said for the simple pleasures of visiting with Akeem and the other inhabitants of Zamunda once again. Set in the lush and royal country of Zamunda, newly-crowned King Akeem (Eddie Murphy) and his trusted confidante Semmi(Arsenio Hall) embark on an all-new hilarious adventure that has them traversing the globe from their great African nation to the borough of Queens, New York - where it all began. Starring Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, Jermaine Fowler, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, KiKi Layne, Shari Headley, with Wesley Snipes and James Earl Jones. Also starring John Amos, Teyana Taylor, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Paul Bates, Nomzamo Mbatha, and Bella Murphy. Directed by Craig Brewer from a screenplay by Kenya Barris and Barry W. Blaustein & David Sheffield.
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In Quest To Find Birth Family, Woman Makes ‘Life-Altering’ Discovery:
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arah Culberson was adopted by a loving white family as an infant. Sarah became curious about her bi-racial roots as she got older and went on a quest to find her biological parents. When Sarah contacted her father’s family, she learned that she was part of a royal family in Sierra Leone. She has since embraced her royal status and focuses on important issues such as clean drinking water and more. Credit:Tamron Hall Show
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Leone Sierra Leone’s capital is home to around one million people and is known for its cultural, religious and ethnic diversity. Enjoy Filmmaker Lansana Mansaray’s tour around his city. The area around Freetown was settled in 1787 by freed slaves. It became a melting pot for liberated African and Caribbean settlers. The Cotton Tree in the city center reflects Freetown’s unique history. Credit:DW Africa
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Forgotten By Beverley Cooper-Chambers
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othering Sunday, Mother’s Day is here again in the UK on Sunday 14 March 2021. This year it takes on such a poignant meaning as people worldwide have been devastated by the loss of mothers and other loved ones during this pandemic. Few people have been untouched, whether in their own families or the lives of friends and colleagues. I am blessed with three mothers, my birth mother, Gertrude Maud, my foster mother Audrey, and my stepmother Percess, all of whom are gone, but I am grateful for their part in my life. So, to all of you who have lost mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, family members, friends, neighbours and colleagues. And to those who never knew their mothers and to the fathers who were the best mothers ever. Hush! Take heart; they may be physically gone but never forgotten.
An Orchid In Memory of Phillipa Ford nee HoSang, friend and mother who transition on 13 March 2011.
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The Woman behind Mothering Sunday in the British Isles
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onstance Adelaide Smith Sunday as a day for recognizing (28 April 1878 – 10 June Mother Church, ‘mothers of 1938), published under earthly homes’, Mary, mother of the pseudonym C. Penswick Jesus, and Mother Nature, basing Smith) was an Englishwoman her work on medieval traditions. responsible for the reinvigoration With Ellen Porter, a colleague of Mothering Sunday in the from the Girls’ Friendly Society British Isles in the 1910s and lodge, Smith established a 1920s Smith was born in Dagnall, movement to promote Mothering Buckinghamshire. She was Sunday, collecting and publishing one of seven children of the information about the day and its Anglican clergyman, Charles traditional observance throughout Penswick Smith, who was vicar the UK. This included research into of Dagnall at the time of her birth Constance local traditions, such as the making and was vicar of Coddington, Adelaide Smith of simnel and wafer cakes. The Nottinghamshire from 1890 to movement established Mothering his death in 1922. She was a High Sunday as a widely observed day Church Anglican, and all four of throughout the British Empire; by the time of her her brothers became Anglican priests. death, the day was said to be observed in every The details of her early life are not clear, but parish in Britain, and every country in the British she worked as a governess in Germany in the Empire. late 19th century. By 1901 was a dispenser Smith never married and had no children. She of medicines at the Hospital for Skin Diseases died in Nottingham in 1938 from acute tonsillitis in Nottingham. She was a dispenser at the and streptococcal cellulitis of the neck. She was Girls’ Friendly Society lodge in Regent Street, buried in Coddington, beside her father. The lady Nottingham from 1909. chapel at All Saints’, Coddington was dedicated to Smith was inspired by a newspaper article in her memory in 1951. 1913, on the plans of Anna Jarvis, an American Source: Wikipedia woman from Philadelphia, who hoped to introduce Mother’s Day in the USA. In 1914, US President Woodrow Wilson made a proclamation establishing the second Sunday of May as the official date for the observance of a national day to celebrate mothers. Smith instead linked this concept to the Mothering Sunday, traditionally observed in the Anglican liturgical calendar on the fourth Sunday of Lent. She published a play, In Praise of Mother: A story of Mothering Sunday (1913 as well as A Short History of Mothering Sunday (1915), which went through several editions. Her most influential booklet was The Revival of Mothering Sunday (1921). She advocated for Mothering
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