People Archives – Jan Fuscoe - Award-winning Writer & Photographer https://www.janfuscoe.com/work_articles/people/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:38:32 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.5 https://www.janfuscoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/favicon2.png People Archives – Jan Fuscoe - Award-winning Writer & Photographer https://www.janfuscoe.com/work_articles/people/ 32 32 172376967 Fighting Fascism – Art As Activism https://www.janfuscoe.com/articles/fighting-fascism-art-as-activism/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:47:39 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?post_type=articles&p=8963 The story of Dan Jones, artist, activist and campaigner, who was one of those who initiated the creation of the ‘Battle of Cable Street’ mural. The artwork commemorates the day when Oswald Mosley’s fascists were forced out of the East End of London. The work is Art as Activism. For more features on activists and…

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]]> 8963 The Woman with the Afro https://www.janfuscoe.com/articles/the-woman-with-the-afro/ Mon, 05 Oct 2020 08:49:25 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?post_type=articles&p=8941 This the story of Barbara Beese. In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, and ahead of a new drama by Steve McQueen (‘Mangrove’), I spoke to one of the last surviving members of the ‘Mangrove Nine’, whose trial in the 1970s was a defining moment for Black Power in Britain As a researcher…

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