Black Manifesto

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• 5:30pm-7:00pm, Friday 29 November
• MAB Auditorium

This year marks the 45th anniversary of the Black People's Manifesto. Formulated by a group of Black and Asian councillors, the Manifesto set out the demands of minority ethnic voters ahead of the 1979 general election. The Manifesto also became central to Black Sections, a movement which aimed to win representation for Black and Asian people in the Labour Party, in local government, and in Parliament.

Black Manifesto is a panel discussion looking back at the recent history of Black radical politics in Britain, and considering the possibilities of a new Parliament – the most diverse in British history.

The panel comprises:

• Rt Hon Diane Abbott MP, former Shadow Home Secretary and Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington. Abbott was the first Black woman elected to the House of Commons and has been Mother of the House since 5 July 2024
• Lord Simon Woolley, founder and director of Operation Black Vote, former chair of the Race Disparity Unit Advisory Group, and Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge.
• Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP, former Shadow Minister for Immigration, Member of Parliament for Clapham and Brixton Hill, and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations.
• Russell Profitt, was a Labour Councillor in Lewisham. He was one of the authors of the Black People's Manifesto and a founder of Black Sections. Profitt is former Interim Chief Executive Officer at Greenwich Inclusion Project.

Black Manifesto is organised by Homerton Changemakers and the Homerton Politics Society.