Today he is a broadcaster and author. On the evening of Friday, April 10 he was sent to police the Brixton riot. “We had a very long, exhausting week, so we dropped many of our colleagues off early.

The grime MC looks back at the Brixton riots and their impact on the community. For grime MC Big Narstie, Brixton is his hometown. But 40 years ago, it was a very different place - with a series ...

Four short films featuring rare footage of Brixton during the 1960s to 1980s ... local struggles and the aftermath of the 1981 Brixton Riots Clovis Salmon was born in Jamaica in 1930 and was ...

Wheatle was living in a social services hostel in Brixton and was present for the Brixton Riots in 1981, which led to his incarceration. While in prison, he read authors such as Chester Himes ...

(The shooting of Cherry Groce by police led to the 1985 Brixton Riot. The death of 49-year-old Cynthia Jarrett, who died as police searched her home, sparked the Broadwater Farm riots in the same ...

As a teenager, he was convicted of assaulting a police officer during the Brixton Riots. He felt totally alone and without hope. But as the door slammed on Alex’s prison cell, he met a book ...