In the second episode of ‘Undersong – Race and Conversations Other-wise’ , Nasar Meer speaks to creative producer Wezi Mhura and art curator and educator Lisa Williams. Together, they talk about Lisa and Wezi’s different artistic and historical interventions into the cityscape of Edinburgh, as well as the history and presence of Black-Scottish life.
Thanks to race.ed.ac.uk for working with SEMPER Scotland to bring this material to Police Scotland.
Podcast notes:
Afrifest: www.afrifestscotland.com
Black History Walks Edinburgh
BLM Mural Trail Edinburgh (no longer on location)curiousedinburgh.org/blm-mural-trail-edinburghwww.eca.ed.ac.uk/news/spotlight-o…tter-mural-trail
The Writers’ Museum Edinburgh: www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/venue/writers-museum
Wezi Mhura’s BLM Mural Trail: www.wezi.uk/blm-mural-trail/
Kokumo Fadeke Rocks – Contemporary African/Asian/Scottish writer and performance poet: www.kokumorocks.net/
David Spence – 18th Century anti-slavery/abolitionist activist, Fife.
Robert Wedderburn – Jamaican-Scottish 19th Century activist, published The Horrors of Slavery (1824)
Vernon, P. & Osborne, A. 2020. 100 Great Black Britons. London: Little, Brown Book Group
Frederick Douglass – 19th Century abolitionist and political activist, Massachusetts and New York, US
Jeda Pearl – a Scottish Jamaican poet, based in Edinburgh. www.jedapearl.com/Twitter: twitter.com/JedaPearl
Edinburgh Ladies Emancipation Society – 19th Century abolitionist group in Edinburgh
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