When Robin Bunce and Paul Field began their research into the British black power movement about six years ago the repeated response was: “What British black power movement?
Bunce and Field, whose book uses the life of Darcus Howe as the framework for the wider history of British black power, are consultants on both Guerrilla and the Mangrove Nine film project.
His and Field’s history of the British black power movement is being reissued in paperback next month.
Bunce has also been working with the Runnymede Trust on British black power stories that may make it on the GCSE syllabus.