Visitors have hailed an exhibit about Glasgow’s links to slavery as an eye opener. Glasgow City Archives made the documents public at Mitchell Library to coincide with Black History Month. Running from September 30 until November 28, the display highlighted Glasgow’s involvement in the slave trade in the 17th and […]
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‘I Am Not Your Negro’ – Highlights from the Glasgow Film Festival
James Baldwin is one of the most eloquent voices of the American civil rights movement. A novelist and poet, he wrote and spoke much about the suffering and subjugation of black Americans at the hands of their white countrymen. His last book was never finished, it was to be a […]