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Fahad Al-Amoudi
Sep 3, 20205 min read
Black Dynamite: Satirising Blaxploitation
I am no film critic; I do not know exactly what makes a good animated tv series nor am I an expert on the blaxploitation genre by any...
Fahad Al-Amoudi
Jul 30, 20207 min read
Misrepresenting Reparations: How the Straw Man Stifles Debate
Reparations is a discussion that combines a number of sensitive issues in the UK and is almost always met with the same overwhelming...
Fahad Al-Amoudi
Jul 16, 20204 min read
Poetry and Remembrance
‘Black Death’, the systematic murder of black people in the Western world, whatever you want to call it, has been at the forefront of...
Fahad Al-Amoudi
Jul 9, 20203 min read
Soundtracking the Movement
Say it Loud! (I’m black and I’m proud!): Soundtracking the movement It’s hard not to get emotive about soul. It is a genre, a movement, a...
Fahad Al-Amoudi
Jun 22, 20203 min read
'Revolutionary Suicide’: Huey Newton and the Black Panther Mantra
The Black Panthers had a very specific iconography in contemporary press coverage, one that has endured despite all the work which has...
Fahad Al-Amoudi
Jun 17, 20206 min read
Three Poets
‘recently a very close friend of mine declared it would take us another twenty years to be really independent. Was he right? I am afraid...
Fahad Al-Amoudi
Jun 15, 20206 min read
‘Decolonisation is always a violent phenomenon’- On Violence in Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth
On the 7th June 2020 the statue of slave trader Edward Colston was spray painted, toppled and rolled into Bristol Harbour during public...
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