COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT.

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT is a podcast shining a light on people at all levels of our community that are doing the work for the benefit of all.

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THE PAN AFRIKAN SOCIETY COMMUNITY FORUM w/ DIRG AAAB RICHARDS

DTA talk to Pan Afrikan Society Community Forum member Dirg Aaab RIchards about the history and work of the PASCF, an important, African-centred organisation based in Brixton, South London.

PRESERVING THE BLACK PRESENCE IN THE UK w/ RHODA BOATENG

‘Archives are fundamental in transforming our relationship to where we are now and how we got here’. Rhoda Boateng has been doing vital work caring for and expanding the collections at the Black Cultural Archives There are very few archivists of African heritage in the UK - lets celebrate us so we can grow.

LIGALI w/ TOYIN AGBETU

Listen to Toyin Agbetu talk interdependence and imaginaries in the context of his pioneering work with Pan African, human rights organisation Ligali on behalf of the global African family.

UNDAUNTED w/ MELBA WILSON

In March 2022, the Black Cultural Archives will be launching the Melba Wilson Collection, as part of their project to catalogue Melba Wilson’s papers. The collection spans over 40 years of her work in national and regional mental health programmes, policy units and services, including grassroots and community activism alongside formal policy work and leadership. DTA spent some time with Melba to discuss her work and the importance of it being archived as a resource for now and tomorrow.

PENRYN CASTLE w/ APRIL-LOUISE PENNANT.

Scholar-Activist, Creative Educator and all-round Queen Dr April Louise Pennant traces the history of Penryn Castle - a space billed by the National Trust as a ‘fantasy castle with colonial foundations’ (wtf?!?) - locating her family history in the building of the castle and discussing the reparative work she has been doing involving this site.