Tayo Aluko

YouTube video by Tayo Aluko, Writer, Actor Keshi Ndoria Makridis & Kirigo Ndoria Mortensen read "Greatness" In a Time of Covid in hallway Sheng

Keshi & Kirigo Ndoria read "Greatness" In a Time of Covid in hallway Sheng
#28 in the Mapping "Greatness" series of people of the Global Majority reading the same poem created to the pandemic and to Empire.
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Blinkered Bowen The BBC’s International Editor On The ‘Gaza War’

Jeremy Bowen's reporting on Gaza for the BBC over the past two years has been shameful – and that is not more obvious only because the bar set by others is even lower.

Media Lens on how Bowen betrayed the victims of genocide: medialens.substack.com/p/blinkered-...

“RUMOURS OF MY DEATH ARE GREATLY EXAGGERATED,” SAYS IMMIGRANT ARTIVIST, WHILE LAMENTING OTHER DEATHS 1 October 2025

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The shamefulness of the British Establishment is well captured by the embarrassed expressions in the faces of these police officers as they carry away the last (wheelchair-bound) dignified protestor. Those pulling the strings must eventually be taken to the Hague to answer for their crimes.

Spaces for orchestral players and singers, and tickets still available for this festival. www.tayoalukoandfriends.com/ctfest
#samuelcoleridgetaylor #blackbritishmusic #blackclassicalmusic #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth

Spaces for orchestral players and singers, and tickets still available for this festival. www.tayoalukoandfriends.com/ctfest

Funding Denials Notwithstanding, Liverpool Festival Celebrating Britain’s Foremost Black Classical Composer Proceeds, with White Allyship from Country’s Oldest Brass Band
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Sign the Petition UN General Assembly: Deploy an Emergency Armed Multinational Protection Force to Gaza!

UN General Assembly: Deploy an Emergency Armed Multinational Protection Force to Gaza! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/FJjv8kFxmq via @UKChange

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YouTube video by Tayo Aluko, Writer, Actor Little Girl of Hiroshima, sung by Tayo Aluko

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Fight or Flight? An Artist's Response to Creeping Fascism
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Join me with Paul Robeson's Love Song July 20 and 26

Desecration. A poem

#ukparliament #femalemps #enablinggenocide #suffragettes #yvettecooper #directaction #proscribetheidf #israelisaterroriststate

Palestine Action? Who are they? Not me, guv.

Callout for classical instrumentalists and choristers, for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Day Festival, Liverpool, October 11, 2025.
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Representing a terrorist? My letter to @paulabarkermp.bsky.social re proposed proscription of #paestineaction
(she is my MP, not Kim Johnson, to whom I wrote earlier in error)
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#israelisaterroriststate #freepalestine

@kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social has emailed me to remind me that she is no longer my MP, and that @paulabarkermp.bsky.social is. I apologised to Ms. Johnson, and will write to Ms. Barker soon. I will however leave this post here.

A Terrorist in Your Constituency? Proposed Proscription of Palestine Action.
My letter to @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social

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#PalestineAction #weareallpalestineaction #FreePalestine

Deported With a Nazi Salute? British Nigerian Writer Finds Poetic Sanctuary in Football City Juneteenth (June 19), 2025

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My review of this very important book by Janet Alder, with Dan Glazebrook
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Terror on Liverpool Streets as Palestine Supporters Hijack Team Bus On 25 May, the day before the Liverpool Football Club victory parade, our regular pro-Palestine march through the city got unusually dangero...

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#freepalestine #palestineaction @pscupdates.bsky.social @claptoncfc.co.uk @celticfc.bsky.social @palaction.bsky.social #freethefilton18

I just voted for @jonathan-cook.bsky.social. He's shown in the company of several better-known journalists in this gallery, but he actually stands head and shoulders above them, in my humble opinion.

YouTube video by Become United UK The Blood Connection Short Film | Your Blood Could Be Their Lifeline

A short film encouraging Black people to donate blood.
#giveblood #sicklecell
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A roaring success for #callmrrobeson in Sheffield. Thanks to Three Acres And A Cow for organising a full house and presenting. #CoryBooker #PaulRobeson
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Tayọ Aluko, the playwright bringing African stories to life, and Leeds this April - Red Ladder Theatre Company Tayọ Aluko is a Nigerian-born writer, singer, actor, and producer based in Liverpool. Coleridge-Taylor of Freetown – A concert in a play, written and performed by Tayọ, tells the story of George Coler...

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Happy Independence Day, Ghana.
Mr. Robeson still dreaming of African Independence, with Southport students. #paulrobeson #ghanaindependence #no2nato

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YouTube video by Tayo Aluko, Writer, Actor Tayyaba Jiwani reads "Greatness" In A Time of COVID in Urdu

Tayyaba Jiwani reads "Greatness" In A Time of COVID in Urdu
#27 in the Mapping "Greatness" series of people of the Global Majority reading the same poem created to the pandemic and to Empire. tayoalukoandfriends.com/mapping-grea...
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YouTube video by Tayo Aluko, Writer, Actor Marika, early teaching, London, 1960s

Marika Sherwood (Nov 1937 - Feb 2025), Hungarian-born historian and Black History expert talks of first teaching Black primary school children in 1960s London, and being introduced to British racism in the process
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Paul Robeson's Love Song was written during the era of #45. It is back with #47, thanks to C Venues digital programme at Dunedin Fringe

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Get well soon, sister!