Posts Tagged ‘Windrush Foundation’
Liberation 1838 project
November 11th, 2011 | 
Author: Press Release by Windrush Foundation©
The Windrush Foundation has won initial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for project ‘LIBERATION 1838’, it was announced today!
Posted in Black History | 
Tags: 175th anniversary of the August 1838 liberation of nearly a million African people in the Caribbean, 1833 Emancipation Act, LIBERATION 1838, Morant Bay massacre, Paul Bogle (Baptist deacon in 1860s Jamaica), Sam Sharpe (Baptist lay pastor in 1820s Jamaica), Windrush Foundation | 
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Big Lottery refuses to fund a memorial day for slavery
Press release by Windrush Foundation©
The African Holocaust the British government would like us to forget.
Last week the Big Lottery refused Windrush Foundation a grant of £98,000 annually to run a project that would have organised major events and activities on August 23 and throughout the year. The British Government in a Press Release issued on 13 December 2007 announced that August 23 each year would be a national day in the UK for commemorating transatlantic slavery and its abolition.