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Local Radio,2 mins

Darcus Howe: A life of activism

Dotun Adebayo

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A new biography of Darcus Howe gives a political history of one of the country's leading black figures. In this extract, Howe speaks to the BBC's Dotun Adebayo about his life of campaigning and activism. He begins by discussing the Black People's Day of Action, which happened on 2 March 1981, two months after the New Cross Fire.

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