S1 EP7 - BLACK STUDIES W/CECIL GUTZMORE: Black History (Employment) Month, Pan-Afrikanism, activism, organising + more

Make it Plain Podcast

In this week's Black World News, Kehinde discusses Black History Month, Kemi Badenoch's "Best Place to be Black” speech, and the mainstream popularity of today's Black and Brown politicians in the UK/US. - In this week's guest interview, Kehinde talks with Pan-Afrikan OG Cecil Gutzmore about Pan-Afrikanism past and present in the UK, the race & class debate, Black success in White academia, young people, and revolutionary change. Cecil Gutzmore is a veteran community activist, intellectual, historian, and educator, a former factory worker, community worker, and university academic lecturer in London and the West Indies, whose work within community activism stretches back to the late 1960s. - "Britain’s the best place to be Black, says Kemi Badenoch. But ask yourself: is it as good as being white?" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/03/britains-best-place-to-be-black-kemi-badenoch-tory "Forty years on from the New Cross fire, what has changed for black Britons?" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/17/forty-years-on-from-the-new-cross-fire-what-has-changed-for-black-britons New Cross massacre (January 18, 1981) https://make-it-plain.org/2023/01/16/new-cross-massacre-january-18-1981/ HARAMBEE ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITYhttps://www.blackunity.org.uk/ - Guest: Cecil Gutzmore Host: @kehindeandrews (IG) @kehinde_andrews (T) Podcast team: @makeitplainorg @weylandmck @inhisownterms @farafinmuso - Psychosis of Whiteness: Surviving the Insanity of a Racist World https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/316675/the-psychosis-of-whiteness-by-andrews-kehinde/9780241437476