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How do we embrace a #BoldBlackBritishFuture after such a difficult year? That's the question The Voice asked this Black History Month.
This week, The Triple Cripples tell us how we can tackle ableism, because the insight of those on the margins is so crucial to us all.
The full transcript of this episode will be made available shortly
The #BoldBlackBritishFuture series is sponsored by JN Bank
You can catch up with the rest of the series below:
As part of the #BoldBlackBritishFuture series Tobi Kyeremateng talked about spatial justice and why Black Britons need spaces of our own.
Mikai McDermott spoke about the importance of Black ownership and community-building.
Amina Aweis spoke about the important contributions that Black people make in the tech space, and how it's time we demand better from the industry. -
In the latest of these oral history podcasts, Dotun asks the queen of lovers rock, Carroll Thompson, why we've been turning to scriptures in troubled times since "once upon a time when we were coloured" – long before the coronavirus.
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How did we adapt to being British from being African/Caribbean? In episode 24 of the Once Upon A Time When We Were Coloured podcast, Dotun Adebayo and his wife, lovers rock queen Carroll Thompson, remember how delicate a balancing act being black and British used to be.
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To mark International Women's Day, Dotun talks to Sonia Brown, founder of the National Black Women's Network and Swarzy Macaly, the voice of BBC Sounds, about whether we could cope as our mothers did "once upon a time when we were coloured".
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"Once upon a time when we were coloured", you were either a soul boy/girl or a reggae head. That didn't just determine the music you listened to and the clubs you raved at, but the friends you kept and your outlook on life. And it also determined whether your romance would be welcome in your parents' home or not.
Dotun Adebayo and his wife, queen of lovers rock Carroll Thompson, reflect on those times when he was a reggae head and she was a.... well, let her explain... -
February 6th 2020 would have been Bob Marley's 75th birthday. In this episode of the Once Upon A Time When We Were Coloured podcast, Dotun Adebayo and his wife, lovers rock queen Carroll Thompson, discuss the reggae king's relevance to a second generation black British constituency who had turned cockney.
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Dotun and his wife, lovers rock queen Carroll Thompson, don't agree about the best song to sing to your other half on Valentine's. What do you think is the perfect Valentine tune?
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Dotun Adebayo and Carroll Thompson discuss black love, relationship struggles, and some of the songs that explore these themes.
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The Church of England is considering apologising for banning the Windrush Generation from worshipping in its churches. Queen of Lovers Rock, Carroll Thompson, remembers the days when black people were not welcome in the C of E
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Dotun Adebayo and his special guests – Shango Baku, Culture Mark, Chinidu Anidobi, Sister Sheba, Mikey Massive and Brother Morris – talk about the Jamaican national hero that is sometimes forgotten in the history books
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In episode 16 of Dotun Adebayo's "Once Upon A Time When We Were Coloured", Dotun and Swarzy (the voice of BBC Sounds) teach each other how to speak proper.
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Discover what it's like round the Christmas tree at the Adebayo residence at this time of year as Dotun navigates his way through the day with his wife, lovers rock singer Carroll Thompson, and his daughters Temi and L.
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Was Chuka Umunna's fall from 'hero to zero' in Election 2019 the most spectacular fall from grace for a politician once tipped to be the first black prime minister and once dubbed 'The British Obama'? Political commentators Kiri Kankhwende and Lester Holloway discuss.
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Superintendent Robyn Williams was the poster girl for London's Metropolitan Police Force's 'diversity' strategy. But after 36 years with an unblemished record, she was was charged and eventually found guilty in a case that has pitted the Black Police Association against the police authorities.
Det. Sgt Janet Hills, chair of the National Black Police Association, tells Dotun why the case should never have been brought to court in the first place. -
This week in Once Upon A Time When We Were Coloured, Sheldon Thomas founder of the anti-gang initiative Gangsline, gives his views on the banning by Vue Cinema of the film 'Blue Story' and the state of Britain today.
If you want to know the realness about gangs in Britain, listen up! -
In this week's episode, Bigga Morrison, one of Britain's most foremost musical directors, gives us a masterclass on how Jamaica took African American rhythm and blues and turned it into ska and then rock steady and finally reggae.
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Ahead of the General Election, Dotun Adebayo speaks to Nels Abbey, author of 'Think Like A White Man' and Cheryl Phoenix of the Black Child Agenda, about the General Election, empty promises, thinking like a white man and who they're voting for.
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In this week's episode, Dotun speaks to Lord Simon Woolley as they discuss politics and the importance of the black vote.
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