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White Riot
o Winner of Grierson Award for Best Documentary – BFI London Film Festival 2019 o Special Mention Crystal Bear – Berlin International Film Festival 2020 1976. Amidst growing support for the National Front and the rise of sus-laws targeting Black youth, Eric Clapton got on stage and declared, “Get the foreigners out. Keep Britain White!” Clapton’s words became a call to action: “Our fight to be accepted as musicians – as people – was ramped up,” explains Mykaell Riley of reggae band Steel Pulse.
And so, in the same year, Rock Against Racism, a political and cultural movement that aimed to bring Black and white fans together in their common love of music, was born. The rise of Rock Against Racism, from a grassroots organisation to the host of the 1978 Anti-Nazi Carnival at Victoria Park, is the subject of Rubika Shah’s >>
Pauline Black and The Selecter
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