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Read the The Guardian article and my thanks to all those who supported me, and my reply to Trevor Phillips who criticised my rejection of an OBE
The Guardian, Thursday November 27, 2003
An invitation to the palace to accept a New Year honour...you must be joking. Benjamin Zephaniah won't be going. Here he explains why.
I woke up on the morning of November 13 wondering how the government could be overthrown and what could replace it, and...
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On 7th September 2003 my cousin, Michael Powell, died whilst in police custody, this was after members our own family called for assistance. The current legal status of the case means that the family is subject to the ‘sub judice’ rule, which restricts what can be said about the circumstances...
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I have told this story many times whilst on stage and maybe because I tell it on stage nobody believes it, people tend to think that I’ve made it up for show business reasons. So now I want to set the record straight, this is all true.
St.Matthias School does not...
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by Benjamin Zephaniah
First published in The Independent 28 December 2002
We should try listening to the refugee's story. They are all very different, with very different stories to tell. They have in common great suffering.
What is an asylum-seeker? To a lot of people in this country "asylum-seeker" has become a term of...
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by Benjamin Zephaniah
(This is an edited version of the introduction to the book Too Black, Too Strong).
Britain is a wonderful place. It is a nation of shopkeepers, aristocrats, farmers and animal lovers, all at the same time. It has the 'mother of all parliaments', its inhabitants enjoy 'free speech' and the right...
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by Benjamin Zephaniah
(In August 2001 a women's refuge was fire bombed in Mauritius, I was asked by the women who run the refuge if I could help bring this to the attention of as many people as possible, this is an article I wrote, first published in the Le...
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Fund his humane research work
Dr Hadwen was one of the greatest minds of his time but because of his radical views on medical and social matters, like all great pioneers and radical thinkers he got him in trouble with the powers that were.
At the age of seven he could read Latin as brilliantly as...
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