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Zora Neale Hurston, Black anthropologist/writer/independent US playwright, was born in 1891, and after collecting Southern folklore, recordings, photos of Black life, culture, songs, lies, dances and three husbands, had manuscripts discovered and re-published after her death aged 69. In the unmissable documentary screened for Black History Studies International Women’s festival, we see it was Zora’s Mama who exhorted her children to “Jump At De Sun.”

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It’s Krunch Time at the Albany: Young, Gifted, Black Cast perform On a mild March Friday night at a sold-out Albany in Deptford, the sparkling cast of Krunch brought to life vocally, rhythmically and spiritually, the advantages and conflicts of being young, Black, British and politicized in 2011.

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Human Rights Watch 15th International Film Festival

An amazing drama highlighting the painful, personal suffering, discrimination and secrecy surrounding HIV/AIDS, in this case in South Africa, was shown at the Ritzy cinema, Brixton, featuring in The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. Life, Above All (Chanda's Secret), showed the young girl, Chanda keeping the secrets of Mum's HIV positive condition; her friend's child prostitution, facing danger and alienation on the streets in men's, sometimes much older men's vehicles plying her trade, risking HIV/AIDS infection, and beatings.