Written and performed by award-winning reggae star, leading actor and Brixton luminary Sutara Gayle AKA Lorne Gee, will mark ...

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In particular, he cites the influence of Linton Kwesi Johnson’s “Making History,” a 1984 song about racist violence and police brutality that resonates all too well today, in light of the ...

"My generation, which was the rebel generation of black youth, has changed England and in changing England we've changed ourselves" - the words of Linton Kwesi Johnson - the man who invented dub ...

Linton Kwesi Johnson was the first black poet to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series, and was recently been awarded the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize, a literary award for a lifetime’s work.

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Johnson witnessed this injustice and decided to take a stand against it. While at school, he joined the British Black Panther Movement, becoming increasingly radical and political. It was also during ...

Linton Kwesi Johnson, a reggae poet, recording artist and activist, was born in Clarendon, Jamaica in 1952. He moved to London in 1963 and attended Tulse Hill secondary school, where he joined the ...

"Linton Kwesi Johnson spoke to the political classes, but Benjamin was a humanist, he made poetry popular and loved music. He had his own studio.

When Jamaican-born dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson immigrated to the U.K. as a child, the country didn't quite live up to the "England" he had pictured in his imagination.