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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
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CHRIS SEARLE pays tribute to Peter Blackman, whose collected poems have just been published
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Born in 1909, Peter Blackman was the son of a quasi-illiterate stonemason and a laundress in St John's parish, Barbados - one of the poorest parts of the island.
He was given a scholarship to an exclusive colonial school by an Anglican church eagerly seeking "native" recruits to the priesthood.
Despatched to Durham University, he became a priest in 1933 and was sent to Gambia as a missionary. There he very soon discovered that black priests like himself were on a lower stipend than their white colleagues.
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