Now catch Kelso Cochrane’s attackers! Thomas L Blair © 23 April 2013, Chronicleworld http://chronicleworld.wordpress.com New police forensics helped convict two of Stephen Lawrence’s race-hate killers. Twenty years to the day of his murder,… Read More
By Thomas L Blair © All rights reserved,Chronicleworld.org 16 April 2013– British parliamentarian Bernard (“Bernie”) Alexander Montgomery Grant (17 February 1944 – 8 April 2000), was the “African rebel” who won his… Read More
By Thomas L Blair, 4 April 2013 © http://chronicleworld.wordpress.com In hard-hit Black Britain, the tinted flesh and fluffy fantasies of US-branded dream girls never fails to appeal. Dollars and scents, fame and fortune… Read More
By Thomas L Blair, Chronicleworld If postcolonial Black authors tend to succumb to the Westernized worldview of “good (and therefore white)” literature, Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was ready to fight back. Achebe repossessed… Read More
By Thomas L Blair, 17 March 2013, © All rights reserved, http://chronicleworld.wordpress.com The late President Hugo Chavez’s campaigns against the oil companies and for the relief of poverty are well-known and heavily criticised. However,… Read More
By Thomas L Blair © 25 February 2013 Confidence-raising Black journalists in the diaspora have boosted minorities’ place in schoolbooks and archives. Their reports, lectures and films are a blow against inequalities in… Read More
By Thomas L Blair © January 2013 “Erasure” controversy foreshadows loss of the digital Black Experience in the information age. Black communities and scholars are firmly on the internet and social media, but… Read More
ON OBAMA ELECTION 2012 Congratulations! Big-up! Respect! Ye me wo mo! Jambo bwana! Hail Oba of America! Cuba si, Yanqui no! Salut! The praise was overwhelming. But will the son of Africa’s… Read More
By Thomas L Blair © 10 August 2012 As British Jamaicans celebrate their homeland’s 50th anniversary and Usain Bolt’s triumphs in the London 2012 Olympics, it’s time to develop closer ties across the… Read More
With others like Maya Angelou she stormed the UN and shouted down the US ambassador Thomas L Blair, Thursday 05 July 2012, The Independent, London The writer and militant Rosa Guy, who has… Read More
