Darcus Howe papers, 1965-2008

Darcus Howe papers, 1965-2008

Summary Information

Abstract

The collection documents the career and personal life of Trinidadian-born Black British activist and journalist Darcus Howe (1943-2017). Howe was best known as a defendant in the 1971 Mangrove Nine trial, a founding member of the Race Today Collective and editor of its journal, Race Today, and a producer of television series and documentary films for the British television station Channel 4. There is also material from the later life of Howe's cousin, the prominent intellectual, postcolonial writer, and activist C. L. R. James (1901-1989).

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1476
Bib ID:
7089617 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Howe, Darcus
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
13 linear feet (18 boxes; 10 document boxes (1-10); 1 half sized document box (18); 7 record storage cartons (11-17))
Language(s):
English .
Access:
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located onsite. (Note that boxes 12-17 are in storage at ReCAP and should not be recalled. These boxes contain audiovisual carriers that have been digitized and are digitally available onsite.)

This collection has no restrictions.

All original copies of audio / moving image media are closed until reformatting. Commercial materials are not routinely digitized. Email rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Description

Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence, court reports and transcripts, publications and printed ephemera, audio and video recordings, and photographs documenting the career and personal life of Trinidadian-born Black British activist and journalist Darcus Howe (1943-2017). Significant groups of material include documentation of Howe's relationship with his cousin, the postcolonial scholar and activist C. L. R. James, during the last decade of James' life; the 1971 Mangrove Nine Trial, in which Howe was a defendant; Howe's membership in the Race Today Collective (1973-1991); and Howe's journalism career. There is also a small amount of material related to Howe's involvement in the British Black Panther Movement (circa 1970-1973), the New Beginning Movement (1971-1978), and the Notting Hill Carnival.

The collection has a few gaps. There is very little material directly related to Darcus Howe's editorial work on Race Today, such as article solicitation and editing, or journal production and distribution. These records, if surviving, may have remained among the records of the Race Today Collective. There is also almost nothing from the 1981 Brixton uprisings or the Black People's Day of Action organized by Darcus Howe, Leila Hassan, John La Rose, Linton Kwesi Johnson, and other activists in response to the New Cross Massacre. Darcus Howe's participation in the 1970 Black Power revolution in Trinidad and Tobago is not documented, though a folder of material related to his subsequent participation in the New Beginning Movement does include a 1973 speech addressing some of Howe's views on those events.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in five series. Materials within each series are arranged in chronological order.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located onsite. (Note that boxes 12-17 are in storage at ReCAP and should not be recalled. These boxes contain audiovisual carriers that have been digitized and are digitally available onsite.)

This collection has no restrictions.

All original copies of audio / moving image media are closed until reformatting. Commercial materials are not routinely digitized. Email rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Darcus Howe Papers; Date (if known); Box and Folder (if known); Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.

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Carnival material, 1972-2006: material related to the Notting Hill Carnival in London. Darcus Howe was chair of the Notting Hill Carnival Development Committee in 1977. At the George Padmore Institute, London, UK.

New Cross Massacre Campaign, 1980-1985: includes records of the New Cross Massacre Action Committee, on which Darcus Howe, Leila Hassan, John La Rose, Linton Kwesi Johnson, and other Race Today Collective members served. At the George Padmore Institute, London, UK.

British Black Panther Movement Oral Histories: Darcus and Leila Howe: These oral histories were recorded in 2014 as part of the Photofusion project on the British Black Panther movement. At the Black Cultural Archives, London, UK.

Photographs of the Black Panther Movement: Includes several photographs of demonstrations in support of the Mangrove Nine during their trial. At the Black Cultural Archives, London, UK.

Accrual

No additional material expected.

Existence and Location of Copies

Materials related to the Mangrove 9 Trial (Box 3, Folders 10-16 and Box 4, Folders 1-9) and printed issues of Race Today (Box 11, Folders 12-20) were digitized with funding from a Columbia University Libraries Primary Resources Grant, 2021. Race Today volumes are available on the Internet Archive via CLIO: Race Today, volume 6-14, 18. Mangrove 9 Trial materials are currently available for use on site at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from Darcus Howe and Leila Hassan Howe, January 2009.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Papers processed Alix Ross 2011.

Finding aid written Alix Ross 03/--/2011.

The collection was reprocessed and the finding aid was revised by Celeste Brewer in July-September 2021. During reprocessing, the collection's arrangement scheme was altered in order to more clearly convey the relationship between its contents and Darcus Howe's activities and interests. Scope and content notes were significantly expanded to provide information about the individuals, organizations, events, political movements, and activities that the collection documents. Some folder titles were changed and a small amount of material was physically rearranged, again with the aim of clarifying their relationship to Darcus Howe's life. These include materials from the Mangrove Management Committee and Mangrove Community Association (circa 1971-1986), which were previously identified as Mangrove Nine Trial documents, and materials in folders whose titles only identified their format (e.g. "General--Pamphlets" or "Announcements and Flyers"). Finally, a full inventory of audiovisual media was created to facilitate digitization and integrated into the series that best reflect the items' context of creation.

Revision Description

2011-08-30 xml document instance created by Carrie Hintz

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

2020-10-13 Series III. box list created with enhanced description. cml

2021-09-17 Revised arrangement, scope and contents, and container list uploaded. CLB

2022-09-30 Digital object links added to finding aid. CLB

2023-11-14 Changed to onsite. kws

Biographical Note

Darcus Howe (1943-2017) was a Black British activist and journalist best known as a defendant in the 1971 Mangrove Nine trial, a founding member of the Race Today Collective and editor of its journal, Race Today, and a producer of television series and documentary films for the British television station Channel 4. Howe, christened Leighton Rhett Radford, was born in Moruga, Southern Trinidad, on February 26, 1943. He was one of five siblings. His parents, Cipriani Nathaniel Howe, an Anglican Priest, and Lucille Howe, both taught at the Eckles Village Anglican School, which Howe attended during his primary school years. In 1955 Howe received an "exhibition" or full scholarship to Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain, one of the oldest secondary schools in Trinidad. He graduated from QRC in 1959 and began work with the Post Office. In 1962, at the age of 19, Howe left for Britain. He resided in London for most of his adult life.

In London Howe worked first, as he had in Trinidad, in the Post Office. He also studied law at London's Middle Temple but abandoned the classroom before completing his degree, for a career in journalism and in activism. Although never called to the English bar, Howe's legal studies paid off handsomely in his many subsequent arrests, trials and brushes with the law. Upon leaving Middle Temple Howe returned briefly to Trinidad, where he edited Vanguard, the journal of the Oilfields Workers' Trade Union, and worked with organizers of Trinidad's 1970 Black Power revolution. By the end of 1970, Howe had returned to London permanently. He became a British citizen in 1988.

During the early 1970s Howe was active in Britain's Black Panther Movement. When the Movement dissolved in 1972, he directed his energies to the work of the Race Today Collective. The Collective separated from the Institute of Race Relations in 1973 in order to transform the publication Race Today from an academic journal into a news magazine covering and supporting radical Black British politics. Howe (1973-1985) and Leila Hassan (1985-1988) served as editors of Race Today. Members and affiliates of the Race Today Collective, which reflected both the geographic breadth of Britain's former colonial reach and the depth of diversity then in London, included: Indian-born British writer Farrukh Dhondy; Zanzibarian co-editor of Race Today Leila Hassan; Jamaican dub—or reggae—poet Linton Kwesi Johnson; Grenada native, and the first Black education director for the London borough of Hackney—or for any borough, Gus John; as well as Howe. Over the years the Collective expanded its editorial operation, publishing pamphlets and books along with Race Today, and co-sponsoring the International Book Fair of Radical, Black and Third World Books. The Collective dissolved in 1991.

Notting Hill's Mangrove Cafe, established in 1968 by Frank Critchlow, served as something of a community center, a home base for West Indian political radicals and as a lightning rod for the London police who raided the cafe with some regularity. After one too many raids, demonstrators marched on the Notting Hill Police Station in August of 1970 protesting "police attacks on Black people's homes and the places [they] frequent." Howe, Barbara Beese, Rupert Boyce, Frank Critchlow, Rhodan Gordon, Anthony Inniss, Rothwell Kentish, Althea Lecointe and Godfrey Millette—the Mangrove Nine—were arrested during the demonstration and charged with "riot and affray," among other charges. Howe and Lecointe chose to defend themselves. It was not Howe's first arrest and it would not be his last trial, but it was his first attempt to defend himself in court. Following a 55 days-long trial in Old Bailey, Howe was acquitted on all counts. In his summary, Judge Edward Clarke noted that the trial had "regrettably shown evidence of racial hatred on both sides." This was the first judicial acknowledgment of racial prejudice existing among the ranks of London's Metropolitan Police. The Mangrove 9 Trial was far from Darcus Howe's only encounter with the police. Throughout the 1970s, he was repeatedly arrested on various charges which were either dropped or concluded with Howe's acquittal in court. The Race Today Collective formed a Darcus Howe Action Committee to organize community support for Howe in response to these arrests.

In January 1981, thirteen young Black Londoners were killed in a catastrophic fire at a birthday party in New Cross. Howe, Leila Hassan, John La Rose, Linton Kwesi Johnson, and other activists organized a New Cross Massacre Action Committee to demand justice for the victims of the fire, which was widely suspected to be the result of arson. On March 2, 1981, thousands marched in a Black People's Day of Action organized by the committee. While the march was catalyzed by investigators announcing that there was no evidence of arson at New Cross, its participants also protested decades of racist harassment and injustice inflicted on Black British people by the police. Youth uprisings against harsh and discriminatory policing tactics occurred in nearby Brixton in April, followed by additional uprisings in Handsworth, Birmingham, Chapeltown, Leeds, and Toxteth, Liverpool in July 1981. Howe reported on these uprisings in Race Today, and published his collected work on the topic in his 1988 book From Bobby to Babylon: Blacks and the British Police.

Howe's journalism ventures expanded into television in the 1980s. From 1985 to 1991, Howe and Tariq Ali co-produced documentaries and interviewed prominent political figures around the globe for the Bandung File, which aired on Britain's Channel Four Television. The program Devil's Advocate, with Howe as a host, followed the demise of the Bandung File. Later documentaries by Howe included White Tribe, Who You Calling a Nigger?, Son of Mine, and in 2009 What's Killing Darcus Howe?, an attempt to raise awareness, particularly among Black men, of prostate cancer.

In print Howe contributed regularly to The Guardian, The Times, The Yorkshire Post and The New Statesman; by the 1990s Howe wrote a weekly column, "Thinking Aloud" for The Sunday Mirror.

Howe was a first cousin, once removed, of C. L. R. James (1901-1989). Their common ancestor, Joshua Rudder, was Howe's great-grandfather, and James' grandfather. Rudder's children included sisters Florrie—Howe's maternal grandmother—and Bessie—James' mother—thereby rendering Howe's mother Lucille and James first cousins. James and Howe had a very close relationship, and frequently referred to one another as uncle and nephew. Howe shared James' politics, activism, and love of the sport cricket. From the early 1980s until his death in 1989, C. L. R. James lived in the rooms of the Race Today Collective in London.

Howe had seven children. In 1989 Howe and his long-time partner, Leila Hassan, were married. Howe was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2007, an experience which informed his documentary What's Killing Darcus Howe? Treatment was successful, and the cancer went into remission in 2009. Darcus Howe died at his home in Streatham, London, on April 1, 2017.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Audiocassettes
Correspondence
Photographs
Printed Ephemera
Videotapes
Name
Ali, Tariq
Black Panther Movement
Channel Four (Great Britain)
Howe, Darcus
Howe, Leila Hassan, 1948-
James, C. L. R (Cyril Lionel Robert), 1901-1989
Oilfields Workers' Trade Union
Race Today Collective
Richards, Viv, 1952-
Place
London (England) -- Race relations
Subject
Court records
Police -- England
Police misconduct
Postcolonialism
West Indians -- Great Britain

Series I: C. L. R. James, 1974-1990, 2003

Series I documents Howe's close relationship with and efforts on behalf of his cousin C. L. R. James, from 1974 until shortly after the latter's death in 1989. The series includes audio recordings, transcripts, and photographs of lectures given by C. L. R. James, as well as lectures given in James' honor by other scholars and activists including Grace Lee Boggs, Tim Hector, and Darcus Howe. Among these events are C. L. R. James' 80th Birthday Lectures in 1981 and the opening lectures from the 1986 Focus on C. L. R. James exhibit. Correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, and print and video news coverage document C. L. R. James' 1989 funeral and burial in Trinidad. There is a small amount of correspondence related to Howe's involvement in managing James' personal affairs and settling James' estate. Materials related to the Race Today Collective's 1991 reconstitution as the C. L. R. James Institute are located in Series III.


Box 1 Folder 1

Correspondence, 1974-1988

Either mentioning or otherwise involving Darcus Howe and C. L. R. James.


Box 1 Folder 2

C. L. R. James and Darcus Howe correspondence, 1976-1983, undated


Box 1 Folder 3

Correspondence regarding C. L. R. James' divorce from Selma James, 1981-1985


Box 1 Folder 4-5

Photographs of C. L. R. James, circa 1980s, 2 folders

Including photographs of C. L. R. James' 80th Birthday Lectures and seminar at First International Book Fair of Radical, Black and Third World Books.


Box 13 Item 153-157

C. L. R. James, circa 1980s, 4 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 13 Item 158

C. L. R. James, Creation For Liberation, Adoor, Chinese waiters, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Partial copy. See item 159 below for a full copy.


Box 13 Item 160

C. L. R. James studio, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 13 Item 167

C. L. R. James BBC Late Show, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 13 Item 168

C. L. R. James talking to Stuart Hall, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Directed by Mike Dibb.


Box 13 Item 165

C. L. R. James cam 3 R 1, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 108

C. L. R. James cam 3 R 2, circa 1980s, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 93

Nello, 1984 August 15, 1 audiocassettes

"Nello" was C. L. R. James' nickname, used by family and very close friends.


Box 12 Item 36-37

C. L. R. James: Pan Africanism and the Dub Poets, 1986 April 7, 2 audiocassettes

Interviewed by Stan Martin.


Box 13 Item 159

C. L. R. James: Creation For Liberation, Adoor, Chinese waiters, 1987 October 24, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 13 Item 161

C. L. R. James, Jean Breeze, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 136

Darcus Howe and Jean Binta Breeze on the life and work of C. L. R. James, circa 1980s, 1 audiocassettes


Box 13 Item 166

C. L. R. James classical music, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 13 Item 163

C. L. R. James lectures, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

30 min x 6, Penumbra.


Box 13 Item 164

C. L. R. James rostrum, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 124

Margaret Busby interview, circa 1980s-1990s, 1 audiocassettes


Box 1 Folder 6

C. L. R. James interview and lecture transcripts, 1981, undated

Typescripts and published.


Box 1 Folder 7-8

C. L. R. James' 80th Birthday Lectures transcripts, 1981, 2 folders

With annotations and corrections by Darcus Howe.


Box 13 Item 162

C. L. R. James, "Socialism or Barbarism?" lecture, 1981, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Given at C. L. R. James 80th Birthday Lectures event.


Box 1 Folder 9

Programs and events honoring C. L. R. James, 1981-1986


Box 1 Folder 10

C. L. R. James, "Walter Rodney and the Question of Power" pamphlet, 1983

Includes draft with corrections by C. L. R. James and final printed version published by the Race Today Collective.


Box 1 Folder 11

C. L. R. James, "Tomorrow and Today: A Vision" article, undated

Photocopy from magazine, with annotations by C. L. R. James


Box 14 Item 177

Omnibus, Beyond A Boundary, 1976 July 8, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Mike Dibb film on C. L. R. James.


Box 12 Item 49

Focus on C. L. R. James exhibit lectures: Wilson Harris opening, 1986 February 17, 1 audiocassettes


Box 1 Folder 12

Focus on C. L. R. James exhibit lecture transcripts: Wilson Harris, "C. L. R. James as Writer and Literary Critic", 1986 February 19

With annotations and corrections by Darcus Howe.


Box 12 Item 87-88

Focus on C. L. R. James exhibit lectures: Wilson Harris, "C. L. R. James as Writer and Literary Critic", 1986 February 19, 2 audiocassettes


Box 1 Folder 13

Focus on C. L. R. James exhibit lecture transcripts: Grace Lee Boggs and Martin Glaberman, "Organising in the USA, 1938-1953", 1986 February 20

With annotations and corrections by Darcus Howe.


Box 12 Item 118

Grace Lee Boggs and Martin Glaberman, "Organising in the USA, 1938-1953", 1986 February 20, 1 audiocassettes


Box 1 Folder 14

Focus on C. L. R. James exhibit lecture transcripts: John Archer, "C. L. R. James and Trotskyism in Britain, 1934-1938", 1986 February 21

With annotations and corrections by Darcus Howe.


Box 12 Item 76, 135

Focus on C. L. R. James exhibit lectures: John Archer, "C. L. R. James and Trotskyism in Britain, 1934-1938", 1986 February 21, 2 audiocassettes


Box 2 Folder 1

Focus on C. L. R. James exhibit lecture transcripts: Tim Hector, "C. L. R. James the Cricket Writer", 1986 February 22

With annotations and corrections by Darcus Howe.


Box 12 Item 70, 115, 135

Focus on C. L. R. James exhibit lectures: Tim Hector, "C. L. R. James the Cricket Writer," chaired by Darcus Howe, 1986 February 22, 3 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 5-8

Focus on C. L. R. James exhibit lectures: Tim Hector, "C. L. R. James, Man of the People", circa 1986 February, 4 audiocassettes


Box 2 Folder 2

Presentation of the Trinity Cross to C. L. R. James, 1987


Box 2 Folder 3

C. L. R. James' finances, 1987, undated


Box 2 Folder 4

Obituaries and other clippings about C. L. R. James, 1978-1990


Box 2 Folder 5

Correspondence regarding the death of C. L. R. James, 1989


Box 2 Folder 6

Condolences to Darcus Howe on the death of C. L. R. James, 1989


Box 2 Folder 7

Funeral of C. L. R. James, 1989


Box 13 Item 174-175

News coverage of C. L. R. James' coffin and funeral, 1989 June 9, 12, 2 videocassettes (U-matic)

AVM Television, Morvant, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.


Box 13 Item 172-173

C. L. R. James funeral video, 1989 June 12, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 2 Folder 8-9

Photographs of C. L. R. James' funeral, 1989 June 12, 2 folders


Box 2 Folder 10

Memorials and tributes to C. L. R. James, 1989-1990


Box 2 Folder 11

C. L. R. James, A Tribute Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, 1989


Box 13 Item 170

Tribute to C. L. R. James, 1989 June 19, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 14

C. L. R. James Memorial Programme, School of Music, 1989 June 29, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 95

C. L. R. James Memorial: Darcus Howe, Introduction and Without Fuss or Fanfare, 1989, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 113

C. L. R. James Memorial: speech by Darcus Howe and performance by David Rudder, 1989, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 34

C. L. R. James Memorial: Astin Rudder and Tim Hector's speeches, 1989, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 48

Darcus's Intro and Speech at C. L. R. James Memorial, circa 1980s, 1 audiocassettes


Box 13 Item 171

Darcus Howe speech on C. L. R. James, circa 1989, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 2 Folder 12

Estate of C. L. R. James, 1989-1991, 2003


Box 12 Item 119

Unidentified speaker discusses Haitian Revolution, Black Jacobins, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Series II: Politics and Activism, 1969-2008

Series II contains material related to Darcus Howe's political and community activism outside of his work with the Race Today Collective. It includes publications and printed ephemera related to the British Black Panther Movement. There is a small group of annotated witness statements from a 1969-1970 court case regarding an incident of police brutality toward David Oscar Cadogan. There is also material related to the Mangrove Nine Trial, including newsletters and printed ephemera distributed by community organizations associated with the British Black Panther Movement during the trial, and annotated court records obtained by Howe in 1990 for his own research. Materials created after the Mangrove Nine Trial include correspondence, newsletters and other publications, and speech transcripts related to the Trinidadian New Beginning Movement. There are also various audiovisual recordings and transcripts of speeches made by Darcus Howe and interviews of Darcus Howe. Much of Howe's later writing is located in Series III and IV. However, a 1998 proposal for a never-published memoir, England, My England, is located in this series.


Box 3 Folder 1

Photographs, circa 1970-2001


Box 3 Folder 2

United Kingdom political pamphlets, circa 1970-1987


Box 3 Folder 3

David Oscar Cadogan court documents, 1969-1970

With incomplete draft typescript of article on Cadogan case with edits by Darcus Howe.


Box 3 Folder 4

Black Panther Movement printed ephemera, 1970-1971


Box 3 Folder 5

Black People's Information Centre, National and International News Bulletin, 1971-1972


Box 3 Folder 6

Black Panther Movement, Freedom News, 1972-1973


Box 3 Folder 7

Black British newspaper article drafts and notes, circa 1970s


Box 3 Folder 8

Flambeau newspaper, 1971 March 3

With edited article drafts and printed publication.


Box 3 Folder 9

Notting Hill Carnival, 1971, 1976-2003


Box 3 Folder 10

Mangrove Nine Trial clippings and notes, 1970-1971


Includes an incomplete typescript outlining strategies for cross-examining police officers.


Box 3 Folder 11

Black People's Information Centre publications on the Mangrove Nine Trial, 1971



Box 3 Folder 12

Mangrove Nine Trial Court Report, 1971 October 5-December 3


Weekly community publication with updates on trial progress.


Box 12 Item 1

Mangrove Nine Trial, circa 1971, 1 open reel audiotapes


Box 3 Folder 13

Mangrove Nine Trial indictment, 1971



Box 3 Folder 14

Mangrove Nine Trial, index of statements, 1970-1971



Box 3 Folder 15-16

Mangrove Nine Trial statements of witnesses, 1970



Box 4 Folder 1-6

Mangrove Nine Trial cross examination transcripts, 1971 October-November, 6 folders



Box 4 Folder 7

Mangrove Nine Trial, Evidence of P. C. Pulley, volume 2, 1971 October 15-19


Volume 1 is not present.


Box 4 Folder 8

Mangrove Nine Trial, Prosecution's closing speech transcript section on Darcus Howe, 1971



Box 4 Folder 9

Mangrove Management Committee and Mangrove Community Association, 1971-1986


Correspondence and other documents on community organizing efforts against continued police raids on the Mangrove Restaurant following the Mangrove Nine Trial.


Box 4 Folder 10

Correspondence on Mangrove Nine Trial transcripts, 1980, 1989-1990


Box 5 Folder 1

Co-ordinating Council Movement of Liberation, Trinidad and Tobago, "Policy Proposals for Liberation" (San Fernando, TT: Vanguard Publishing Co., 1970), 1970 December


Box 5 Folder 2

New Beginning Movement, 1971-1978

Correspondence, newsletters, and printed ephemera.


Box 5 Folder 3

Caribbean political publications and printed ephemera, 1972-1986


Box 5 Folder 4

Bukka Rennie, History of the Working-Class in the 20th Century--Trinidad and Tobago (Toronto: New Beginning Movement), 1974 February


Box 5 Folder 5

Wally Look Lai, The Present Stage of the Trinidad Revolution (Tunapuna, TT: New Beginning Movement), 1974 February


Box 18 Folder 1

Photograph of Darcus Howe at Imperial Typewriters Strike Rally, 1974


Box 5 Folder 6

Teachers' Action , circa 1975-1977

Published by the Teachers' Action Collective, which included Farrukh Dhondy.


Box 5 Folder 7

Speaking engagements flyers, 1975-1993, undated


Box 5 Folder 8

Transcripts of two speeches by Darcus Howe, 1978 February 7, November 24

At Sussex University on February 7 and at North London Polytechnic on November 24.


Box 5 Folder 9-11

Speaking engagements correspondence, 1979-2004, undated, 3 folders


Box 6 Folder 1

Complaint against Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, 1979-1983


Box 6 Folder 2

Tricontinental no. 66, 1979


Box 17 Item 304

Walter Rodney memorial service and funeral, circa 1980, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 126

Recording of a hearing about how the Labour Party can better include and serve Black British people, circa 1980s, 1 audiocassettes


Box 6 Folder 3

Correspondence, 1983-2008


Box 6 Folder 4

Oilfields Workers Trade Union publications, 1984-1988


Box 6 Folder 5

Africa, Europe, Caribbean: Political Commentaries by Biodun Jeyifo, Darcus Howe, Tim Hector at a forum hosted by the Oilfields Workers' Trade Union (San Francisco: Vanguard Publishing Co., 1984), 1984 September


Box 12 Item 94

Darcus Howe, "Blacks in the Labour Movement," Northern College, 1985 February 15, 1 audiocassettes


Box 6 Folder 6

Interviews and profile of Darcus Howe, 1986, 1989, undated


Box 6 Folder 7

Darcus Howe, "Europe Yesterday, Europe Today, and Europe Tomorrow," transcript of speech, circa 1988


Box 12 Item 129

"After Dread and Anger" with Kwesi Owusu, James Berry, Stuart Hall on Black identity in Britain, 1989, 1 audiocassettes; Side 1


Box 6 Folder 8

Darcus Howe, Eulogy for William Johnson, 1990 December 6


Box 12 Item 77

Darcus Howe Tribute to William Johnson, 1990 December 6, 1 audiocassettes; 77 side A


Box 12 Item 77

Antigua shipping inquiry, circa 1990 December, 1 audiocassettes; 77 side B

Recording of a meeting, press conference, or possibly a formal trial or inquest related to shipping and Antigua.


Box 12 Item 63

[NATO?] int. Trinidad P.M., 1990 July 31, 1 audiocassettes


Box 6 Folder 9

Notebooks, 1991


Box 15 Item 257

Communities of Resistance: Britain's Black Legacy, 1991, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 6 Folder 10

Dolly A. McPherson interview of Darcus Howe transcript, 1992 June 29


Box 6 Folder 11

England, My England book proposal, 1998 July

Proposed memoir by Darcus Howe.


Box 12 Item 78

Radical and Popular [illegible] dissertation, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 129

Darcus Howe on immigrant experience and organization in Britain, undated, 1 audiocassettes; Side 1


Box 12 Item 132

Darcus Howe speaking on the Soviet Union and China, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 134

Darcus Howe on an Africa Center radio program, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 137

Darcus Howe and Bala Usman speaking at "The Transition to Socialism and Building Socialist Societies: Advances and Difficulties" forum, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Series III: Race Today Collective and C. L. R. James Institute, 1971-1996

Series III includes material associated with the Race Today Collective and its successor organization, the C. L. R. James Institute. Documentation of the Race Today Collective's activities includes bylaws and budget information from circa 1978, audiotapes of Collective meetings and literature study sessions from the late 1980s, and some Race Today editorial correspondence. The latter comprises primarily reprinting permissions and letters to the editor, as well as routine correspondence related to secretarial work and some general discussion of political issues in Trinidad and Tobago and other former British colonies in the Caribbean and Africa. There is a full run of the journal Race Today and a small number of Race Today Publications monographs. A comparatively large group of material related to the United States' 1983 invasion of Grenada includes diaries kept by Race Today Collective member Gus John and a person called Christine in Carriacou documenting the situation in Grenada. This series also contains four folders of Darcus Howe Action Committee material. Finally, there is material related to the Collective's 1991 dissolution and reconstitution as the C. L. R. James Institute, circa 1991-1996. These include meeting minutes, plans and applications for charity status, and even architectural drawings of a proposed cultural center and cafe. The relationship between this C. L. R. James Institute and the one founded in New York City in 1984—if any—is unclear.


Subseries III.1: Race Today Collective, 1971-1991


Box 6 Folder 12

Community Relations Commission and Race Relations Board, 1971-1973


Box 6 Folder 13

A. Sivanandan, Race and Resistance: The IRR Story (London: Race Today Publications), 1974


Box 11 Folder 12-20

Race Today , 1974-1982, 1988, 9 folders; 8 bound volumes and one staple-bound publication.

Digitized with funding from a Columbia University Libraries Primary Resources Grant, 2021, and available through CLIO: Race Today, volume 6-14, 18


Box 6 Folder 14

Selma James, with contributions from Barbara Beese, Mala Dhondy and Darcus Howe, Sex, Race and Class (London: Race Today Publications), 1975 February

With a photocopy of the edited typescript.


Box 6 Folder 15

Race Today Women's Collective, "Black Women in Britain: The Race Today Perspective", 1975 April


Box 6 Folder 16-17

Race Today Collective general correspondence, 1976-1988, 2 folders


Box 6 Folder 18

Race Today editorial correspondence, 1976-1986, undated


Box 6 Folder 19

Employment references, 1976-1978, 1986


Box 6 Folder 20

Rules of Race Today Collective Limited, 1978 March 17


Box 7 Folder 1

Darcus Howe Action Committee leaflets, press statements, and minutes, 1977-1981


Box 7 Folder 2

Darcus Howe Action Committee correspondence, 1977-1980


Box 7 Folder 3

Darcus Howe Action Committee court statements, 1978, 1980


Box 7 Folder 4

Darcus Howe Action Committee finances, 1980


Box 7 Folder 5

Bradford Black Conference, 1978


Box 7 Folder 6

"Some Aspects of Jamaican Theatre and Women's Role In It" interview with Honor Ford Smith, circa 1980, Edited typescript.


Box 7 Folder 7

Darcus Howe, article drafts for Race Today, circa 1980s


Box 12 Item 122

Unidentified meeting, possibly of Race Today Collective or C. L. R. James Institute, circa 1980s-1990s, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 15-16

Finance meeting, 1981 September 6, undated, 2 audiocassettes


Box 7 Folder 8

Alliance of the Black Parents Movement, The Black Youth Movement, Race Today Collective and Bradford Black Collective, "The Grenada Revolution" and "Guyana: The Terror and the Time" bulletins, 1979 April, November


Box 12 Item 131

Darcus Howe and others speak at Camden book fair on pan-Africanism, movement building, and Socialist revolution, circa 1982-1995, 1 audiocassettes

Likely at an International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books.


Box 7 Folder 9

Newsletters on the Guyanese bauxite workers' strike, 1982-1983

Publications include Open Word, Dayclean, and the Catholic Standard.


Box 7 Folder 10

Grenada New JEWEL Movement Central Committee minutes, 1983

With annotations by Darcus Howe. Also includes minutes of a Committee for Labour Solidarity meeting, 1983 December 11.


Box 7 Folder 11

Grenada diary, Christine in Carriacou, 1983


Box 7 Folder 12

Grenada diary, Gus John, 1983


Box 7 Folder 13

Statements and addresses on Grenada, 1983, undated


Box 7 Folder 14

Printed material on Grenada, 1983-1985

Clippings and publications by the Race Today Collective, Oilfields Workers Trade Union, Raya Dunaevskaya, and others.


Box 7 Folder 15

New Cross Massacre Action Committee, "Declaration of New Cross", 1981 March 2


Box 7 Folder 16

The New Cross Massacre Story: Interviews with John La Rose (London: Alliance of the Black Parents Movement, Black Youth Movement and the Race Today Collective), 1984


Box 12 Item 3

John LaRose, New Cross, Radio London, 1985 August 21, 1 audiocassettes


Box 8 Folder 1

Race Today Collective, The Struggle of Asian Workers in Britain (London: Race Today Publications), 1983


Box 8 Folder 2

C. L. R. James, A History of Negro Revolt (London: Race Today Publications), 1985 October


Box 8 Folder 3

Darcus Howe, Black Sections in the Labour Party (London: Race Today Publications), 1985 March

Clippings, typed notes, draft, and Race Today publication by Darcus Howe.


Box 8 Folder 4

Transcript of Caribbean in Crisis forum discussion opening remarks by Darcus Howe, 1985 March 17

Given at the Fourth International Book Fair on Radical, Black and Third World Books.


Box 12 Item 62

Caribbean in Crisis Bookfair forum: Film evening, 1985 March 17, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 65

India: The Crisis to Come Bookfair forum, Tariq Ali, 1985 March 17, 1 audiocassettes


Box 8 Folder 5

International Book Fair of Radical, Black and Third World Books programs and flyers, 1985, 1989


Box 8 Folder 6

Michael Smith, It A Come: Poems, edited by Mervyn Morris (London: Race Today Publications), 1986


Box 8 Folder 7

Race Today Collective photographs, circa 1986

Events and offices.


Box 8 Folder 8

Race Today Seminar on Black Aesthetic transcript, circa 1987

With Aubrey Williams and Imruh Bakari, following a screening of Bakari's film about Williams, "The Mark of a Hand."


Box 8 Folder 9

Race Today Collective, The Arrivants: A Pictorial Essay on Blacks in Britain (London: Race Today Publications), 1987 March


Box 8 Folder 10

Tim Hector and The Outlet, 1987, 2002


Box 8 Folder 11

Darcus Howe, "Radical Politics in the United States," transcript of speech given at Race Today event at Lambeth Town Hall, 1988 May 26


Box 8 Folder 12

From Bobby to Babylon publications, 1980, 1982, 1988

Includes Parts 2 and 3 of original Race Today "From Bobby to Babylon" series (1980 November and 1982 February issues), and paperback printed book.


Box 8 Folder 13

From Bobby to Babylon drafts, circa 1987


Box 8 Folder 14

From Bobby to Babylon galleys, 1988


Box 9 Folder 1

Jean Binta Breeze, 1988-1989

Poem typescripts, correspondence, and photographs and program from poetry tour with Ntozake Shange.


Box 9 Folder 2

Patricia Dick, 1988, undated


Box 9 Folder 3

Race Today Collective reorganization, 1988-1990


Box 9 Folder 4

Race Today Publications rights and permissions, 1989-1993


Box 9 Folder 5

Race Today Collective office reports from Marva Spencer, 1989 October-1990 January


Box 12 Item 61

Business meeting, 1990 February 2, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 35

Commission of Inquiry, 1990 July 18, October 28, 1 audiocassettes


Box 9 Folder 6

10th Anniversary New Cross Massacre Action Committee, 1991 March 2


Box 9 Folder 7

"Florida Statement" on Race Today Collective dissolution, circa 1990


Box 9 Folder 8

Race Today Collective dissolution, 1991 April


Box 12 Item 92

Interview with Darcus Howe for Race Today, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 112, 127

Program on poets James Berry, Jean Binta Breeze, Fred Degas, undated, 2 audiocassettes; 112 Side 1 and 127 Side 2 are duplicates.


Subseries III.2: C. L. R. James Institute, 1983, 1990-1996


Box 9 Folder 9

C. L. R. James Institute correspondence, 1983, 1990-1994


Box 12 Item 18-33

Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution , 1990 September 29-1992 February 9, 16 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 130

Meeting, possibly of C. L. R. James Institute, planning for Nkrumah event, circa 1990-1992, 1 audiocassettes; Side 1


Box 12 Item 58

Sunday meeting: Report for D, 1991 February 22, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 43

Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution: C. L. R. James Institute, 1991 March 17, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 79

Sunday meeting, 1991 March 24, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 85

Sunday meeting, 1991 April 7, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 68

The Myth: Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution meeting, 1991 April 21, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 100

Sunday meeting, Political Policy Statement, 1991 May 12, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 2

Ntozake Shange discussion with Darcus Howe and C. L. R. James Institute, 1991 June 14, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 17

Chapter five, 1991 July 7, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 66

Sunday meeting, 1991 July 21, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 75

Nkrumah: Discussion of programme for re-reading, D's absence, 1991 September 1, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 73

Political statement, agenda (Leila's), 1991 September 8, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 9-13

"Every Cook Can Govern", 1991 September 22-November 3, 5 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 96

Committee meeting, 1991 September 26, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 67

Sunday meeting: Report for D, 1991 December 15, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 42

Sunday meeting: Fundraising, Publication reports, 1992 January 19, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 51

Festival meeting, 1992 April 12, 1 audiocassettes


Box 9 Folder 10

C. L. R. James biographies and bibliography, 1992, undated


Box 9 Folder 11

C. L. R. James Festival planning, 1992


Box 9 Folder 12

C. L. R. James Institute meetings, 1992-1996


Box 9 Folder 13

C. L. R. James Institute founding documents and Bulletins, 1993-1994


Box 10 Folder 1

Proposed C. L. R. James Arts & Media Centre, Brixton, 1993-1994


Box 10 Folder 2

Drawings and plans for proposed C. L. R. James Arts & Media Centre, Brixton, 1993, undated


Box 10 Folder 3

Charities Aid Foundation donations to C. L. R. James Foundation, 1993-1995


Box 12 Item 86

Sunday meeting (Nkrumah doc) assessment of study/writing, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 105

Darcus Howe, Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, class 1, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 89

C. L. R. Nkrumah Lesson 3, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 41

Ntozake Shange interview with Kay Bonetti, undated, 1 audiocassettes

American Audiovisual Library, 48 minutes.


Box 12 Item 59

Shange's Betsey Brown, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 130

Ntozake Shange interview, undated, 1 audiocassettes; Side 2

Series IV: Journalism, 1965, 1976-2004

Series IV contains correspondence, interview transcripts, clippings, and audio and video recordings from Darcus Howe's career in journalism. There are some drafts and clippings of Howe's newspaper columns, including "Thinking Aloud," his weekly column in Trinidad and Tobago's Sunday Mirror. The bulk of this series is composed of videotapes of Howe's television work for Channel Four dating from the mid-1980s through the 1990s. These include the Bandung File, a series Howe co-produced with Tariq Ali between 1985 and 1991, and other programs co-produced by Ali and Howe through their Bandung Productions company. Bandung File and Bandung Productions materials are located in Subseries IV.2. Howe's other television work is located in Subseries IV.3. This includes video tapes of Howe's series Devil's Advocate (1992-1996) and his appearances on Live and Direct and The London Programme. There are also audiotapes of interviews, research material, and other paper and audiovisual material used in Howe's television and radio work.


Subseries IV.1: Print media, 1976-2003


Box 10 Folder 4

Article clippings by and about Darcus Howe, 1976-1999


Box 10 Folder 5

Print media correspondence, 1984-2003


Box 10 Folder 6

Darcus Howe head shots, circa 1985


Box 10 Folder 7

Column drafts, 1987-1992, undated


Box 10 Folder 8

Correspondence with Keith Shepherd and Raffique Shah, The Mirror, Trinidad and Tobago, 1989-1992


Box 10 Folder 9

Darcus Howe, "Thinking Aloud" column clippings, The Mirror, 1991-1993


Subseries IV.2: Bandung Productions/The Bandung File, 1965, 1983-1990


Box 10 Folder 10

Interview photographs, circa 1980s-1990s


Box 10 Folder 11

Clippings and research material on cricket, 1965, 1983, 1989


Box 10 Folder 12

Bandung Productions correspondence, 1985-1990


Box 10 Folder 13

"President Nyerere in Conversation with Darcus Howe and Tariq Ali", 1985-1986

Includes list of proposed questions, "The Arusha Declaration and Tanu's Policy on socialism and self reliance" pamphlet by Julius Nyerere, and interview transcript published by Race Today.


Box 16 Item 263

Bandung File: "Till Death Do Us Part", 1985 September 26, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 176

Extract, "Till Death", circa 1985, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 10 Folder 14

Darcus Howe interview of Robert Mugabe transcript, 1986


Box 13 Item 147

Mugabe (rough), circa 1986, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 317

Bandung File , 1986 August 22, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 187

Bandung File: Asian Businessmen, 1986 August 29, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 232

Bandung File: Liverpool 8, 1986 September 5, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 186

Bandung File: Non Aligned Movement, 1986 September 12, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 264

Bandung File: Khalistan, 1986 September 19, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 265

Bandung File: Labour Party, 1986 September 19, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 318

Bandung File: Dowry Deaths, 1986 October 10, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 197

Bandung File: Trinidad Elections, 1986 December, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 10 Item 15

Darcus Howe interview of Ian Macdonald transcript, circa 1987


Box 14 Item 183

Bandung File: Heathrow and Trinidad Elections, 1987 January 10, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 266

Bandung File: Outside the Law and A Child Is Dead, 1987 January 17, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 233

Bandung File: Raiding the Pirates, 1987 February 7, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 267

Bandung File: South African Detainee, Trevor Monerville, Grunwick, 1987 February 21, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 178

Bandung File: "Death In Custody": The Case of Clinton McCurbin, 1987 June, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 13 Item 148

Bandung File: Mandela and R.A.T., 1987 June 20, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 319

Bandung File: Thatcher's Children and Sharon Atkin, 1987 June 7, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 268

Bandung File: Chapeltown and Pakistan, 1987 June 27, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 269

Bandung File: Third World Studies and K. Kaur Sohail, 1987 July 18, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 270

Bandung File: Rostrum, Boxing and St. Lucia, 1987 July 21, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 320

Bandung File: South African Football and Salman Rushdie, 1987 August 31, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 271

Bandung File: Kerala and Glasgow, 1987 October 17, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 13 Item 150

Bandung File: Rajiv Gandhi, Theatre du Soleil, 1987 October 31, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 321

Bandung File: Mental Health, 1987 November 7, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 102

Darcus Howe, Bandung File, moderated by Wanda Bershen, 1987 November 8, 1 audiocassettes


Box 16 Item 272

Bandung File: Trevor Monerville, Jamaica: A Hard Road to Travel, 1987 November 21, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 322

Bandung File: Trevor Monerville, Jamaica: A Hard Road to Travel, 1987 November 21, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 273

Bandung Productions: Brixton, Tamils, Sheffield, 1987 November 28, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 274

Bandung File: Dewsbury Factor, Rico, Cochin Jews, Poets Corner, 1987 December 5, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 275

Bandung Productions: The Man from Malgudi, 1987 December 12, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 234

Bandung Productions: Mugabe, 1988 January 13, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 276

Bandung Productions: Ullah and Mistry Q., 1988 May 31, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 184

Bandung Productions: Viv [Richards] and His Men, 1988 June 4, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 277

Bandung Productions: [illegible], 1988 June 16, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 235

Bandung Productions, Stowaway/Toxteth/Imran, 1988 July 5, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 236

Bandung File: "Liberty's Scream", 1988 July 11, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 323

Bandung Productions: Bernie Grant and Keith Vaz, Nigerian woman, Hindi cinema, 1988 July 12, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 10 Folder 16

Darcus Howe interview of Jesse Jackson transcript, circa 1988


Box 13 Item 139-144

Jesse Jackson, 1988 July, 6 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 13 Item 141-144

Jesse Jackson, circa 1988, 4 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 196

Jesse Jackson, circa 1988, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 324

Bandung File, Programme 9, Series 3: Poll Tax and IMF, 1988 July 25, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 237-239

Bandung Productions: Imprisoning Carnival and Going South, 1988 August 2, 3 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 278

Bandung Productions: Imprisoning Carnival and Going South, 1988 August 2, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 240

Bandung Productions: Vanley, 1988 November 10, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 279

Bandung Productions: Dancing By Numbers, 1988 November 21, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 325

Bandung Productions: Dancing By Numbers, 1988 November 21, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 241

Bandung Productions, Pakistan Polls and Death by Misadventure, 1988 November 29, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 190

Bandung Productions: Death By Misadventure (copy), circa 1988, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 326

Bandung Productions: Pakistan Elections, Clinton McCorbin, 1988 November 29, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 188

Bandung Productions: Hurricane, 1988 December 12, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 242-243

Bandung Productions: Smile, Jamaica?, 1988 December 13, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 280

Bandung Productions: Smile, Jamaica?, 1988 December 13, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 10 Folder 17

Bandung File promotional material, 1988-1989


Box 14 Item 180

Bandung Productions: AIDS in South Africa and Shadow Over East Timor, 1989 January 28, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 298

Bandung Productions: AIDS in South Africa and Shadow Over East Timor, 1989 January 28, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 13 Item 145-146

Mugabe and Zimbabwe cricket, 1989 January 31, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 18

Interview with Mikey Holding, 1989 January 31, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 44

Mrs. Holding, 1989 February, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 50

Mr. Ralph Holding, circa 1989, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 69

Marjorie Cobham, Michael Holding, circa 1989, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 98-99

Interview with Michael Holding on Australia and India in the West Indies, Tours '76, Jamaica, 1989 March 16, 2 audiocassettes


Box 16 Item 282

Bandung Productions: Southall Boys, Returning South, 1989 February 2, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 283

Bandung File: Benazir Bhutto, Satanic Verses, 1989 February 14, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 179

Bandung Productions: China: Speaking Bitternesses, 1989 June 11, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 13 Item 169

C. L. R. James Bandung Productions, 1989 June 17, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 284

Bandung Productions: China Speaking, 1989 June 21, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 244

Bandung File: Ten Years of Thatcher, 1989 July 4, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 285

Bandung File: Ten Years of Thatcher, 1989 July 4, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 286

Bandung Productions: Ethnic Press and Mehtas of Manhattan, 1989 July 18, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 287

Bandung Productions: Drugs in Sport, 1989 August 1, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 245

Bandung File, Programme 6, 1989 August 7, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 288

Bandung Productions: Ragamuffin and An American Woman in London, 1989 August 8, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 246

Bandung Productions: Bhopal, Vanley, and Poets Corner, 1989 August 15, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 289

Bandung Productions: Carnival in Crisis and Puerto Rico, 1989 August 22, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 327

Bandung Productions: Carnival in Crisis and Puerto Rico, 1989 August 22, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 290

Bandung File: India Greens and Namibian Elections, 1989 August 29, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 182

Bandung Productions: Ram Gopal and the Muslim Vote, 1989 September 5, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 328

Bandung Productions: Drugs Trail, 1989 September 19, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 329-330

Bandung File: A Song for Montserrat, 1989 October 13, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 291

Bandung File: A Song for Montserrat and Cambodia, 1989 October 17, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 194

Montserrat, circa 1989, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 281

Bandung Productions: The BCCI Connection, 1989, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 81

Bandung Productions: Balagun #5, side A, circa 1980s, 1 audiocassettes; 81 side A

On the need for a defense campaign in response to media coverage.


Box 12 Item 81

Bandung Productions, Balagun #5, side B, circa 1980s, 1 audiocassettes; 81 side B

A meeting about proposed legislation.


Box 14 Item 181

Bandung Productions: Tower Hamlets and Boxing, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 185

Bandung Productions: Learie to Viv [Richards] and Narayan, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 60

Viv commentary, circa 1980s, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 106

Viv Richards letter, circa 1980s, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 107

Viv Richards, circa 1980s, 1 audiocassettes


Box 15 Item 223

Hugh McIlvaney and Viv [Richards], circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 306

Viv [Richards] to Learie, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 307

Viv and His Men edited master, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 198

Antigua, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 19

Tim Hector and Jerome Blaeu, Antigua, circa 1980s, 1 audiocassettes


Box 15 Item 247-248

Bandung File: On the Marijuana Trail, circa 1980s, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 249

Bandung Productions: Broadwater Farm: "Trials", circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 250

Bandung File: Bradford, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 251

Bandung Productions: Election Special 2, Grant/Vaz, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 252

Bandung File: Da Silva, Da Silva, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 253

Bandung Productions: Mangrove Steel Band, Boots, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 254

Bandung Productions: Rico, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 255

Bandung Productions: C, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 292

Bandung File: French Mothers and Licence to Kill, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 293

Bandung Productions: Open Space, "Mangrove", circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 294

Bandung Productions: Studio Discussion, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 295

Bandung Productions: Jamaica, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 296-297

Bandung Productions: "Moods and Moments" (Jean Binta Breeze), circa 1980s, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 299

Bandung Productions: Pakistan After Zia, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 300

Bandung Productions: Sheffield and "Taking Off The Lid", circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 301

Bandung Productions: Howard Beach, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 331

Bandung File: Haiti, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 332

Bandung Productions: Ragamuffin, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 333

Bandung File: Jamaica Independence 1 and 2, circa 1980s, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Subseries IV.3: Other television and radio journalism, 1976, 1979-2004


Box 11 Folder 1

Other television and radio journalism correspondence, 1976, 1985-2002


Box 12 Item 71

Darcus, Caribbean [?], Radio 3, 1979 January 23, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 120

BBC Radio London program: Darcus Howe and Alfonso Childs discuss Black people in the police force, circa 1980s-1990s, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 121

Darcus Howe program on Grenada and Trinidad, circa 1980s-1990s, 1 audiocassettes


Box 14 Item 191

Caribbean Programme, 1986 June 15, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Bob Marley profile.


Box 15 Item 218

Caribbean Programme, 1986 June 14, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Final part of Saturday.


Box 14 Item 193

The People's Account , 1987 February 10, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 13 Item 151

James Baldwin and Caesarina, 1988 December 6, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 13 Item 152

James Baldwin off-line copy, circa 1988, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 127

Program on Jamaica and Michael Manley re-election in 1989, circa 1989, 1 audiocassettes


Box 13 Item 149

Women: Fundamentalism and Toni Morrison, 1989 July 25, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 82-83

Radio Three: Third Ear, Robert Hewison, Jatinder Verma, and Darcus Howe, 1989 December 6, 2 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 104

Peter Brook interview, interview [illegible] Darcus Howe, 1991 May 2, 1 audiocassettes


Box 17 Item 308

The London Programme , 1991 October 21, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 309

The London Programme, Stratford School, 1992 March 6, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 192

Black Bag Special , 1992 May 2, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 226

Devil's Advocate: After Ciskei, 1992 September 14, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 302

Thinking Aloud on Los Angeles, 1992, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 11 Folder 2

Devil's Advocate , 1992-1993


Box 14 Item 216

Devil's Advocate , circa 1992-1996, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

9, 12, 13, 14


Box 14 Item 217

Unedited news footage, possibly used for Devil's Advocate or a Bandung Productions report, circa 1992-1996, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

First a community meeting or press conference with Keith Vaz, then a separate press conference held by Bernie Grant.


Box 15 Item 334

Devil's Advocate , circa 1992-1996, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 262

Devil's Advocate , circa 1992-1996, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 229

Devil's Advocate: Anti-Racism, circa 1992-1996, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 230

Devil's Advocate: Teen Sex, circa 1992-1996, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 260

Devil's Advocate, Programme 1, circa 1992-1996, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 313

Devil's Advocate, Programme 2, circa 1992-1996, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 314

Devil's Advocate, Programme 4, circa 1992-1996, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 261

Devil's Advocate, Programme 10, circa 1992-1996, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 231

Devil's Advocate, Programme 11, circa 1992-1996, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 205

Devil's Advocate: The Asian Family, 1993 February 22, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Series 2, Programme 1


Box 17 Item 305

Bernie Grant press conference, London, 1993 October 5, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 16 Item 259

Devil's Advocate: PLO, 1993 October 27, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 206-207

Devil's Advocate: Labor Women, 1993 November 3, 2 videocassettes (VHS); 2 copies

Series 3, Programme 4


Box 14 Item 208

Devil's Advocate: LaToya Jackson, 1993 November 9, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 315

Devil's Advocate: LaToya Jackson, 1993 November 9, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 209-210

Devil's Advocate: X-Press, 1994 August 10, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 211

Devil's Advocate: Mark Tully, 1994 August 17, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 227

Devil's Advocate: George Austin, 1994 August 24, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 212

Devil's Advocate: "Wiggers", 1994 September 14, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 228

Devil's Advocate: "Wiggers", 1994 September 14, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 316

Devil's Advocate: Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 1994 September 21, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 204

Live and Direct Programme 2, 1994 December 2, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 220

Live and Direct Programme 2, 1994 December 2, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 213

Devil's Advocate #6, 1995 October 3, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 214

Devil's Advocate, Programme 1, 1995 October 6, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 215

Devil's Advocate, Programme 3, 1995 October 6, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 202

Black Britain: Programme 3, 1996 July 23, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 256

It's Your Shout , 1996 November 13, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 224

Black Britain, Programme 2, 1997 April 2, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 200

Live Lyrics, 1998 July 9, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 203

Black Britain, Series 4 Programme 5, 1998 October 21, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 11 Folder 3

Playground Discussion program on Dispatches report, 1998


Box 11 Folder 4

Treatment for White Tribe, 1998


Box 12 Item 46

The Gravy Train, BBC Radio 5 Live, 2000 November 27, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 110A

Wakefield [conference recording], 2001 March 10, 2 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 110B

Radio program "Black Londonders" on Grenada


Box 16 Item 258

Diverse Production: "Who You Callin' A Nigger?", 2004 April 13, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 311

Diverse Production: "Who You Callin' A Nigger?", 2004 April 13, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 312

Daily Politics, 2004 September 16, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 14 Item 201

BBC Northern Ireland: Dinner with Portillo, The Trouble With Sport, 2004 September 29, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 40

Nkrumah's secretary Erica Powell, undated, 1 audiocassettes

R3. Viv interview/review


Box 12 Item 52-56

[Caribbean tapes], undated, 5 audiocassettes

Tape 1: Port of Spain, Trinidad. Merle Hodge, Hodge Trace, Gordon St., St. Augustine. Tape 4: Georgetown, Guyana. Clive Thomas (continued from tape 3), Karen De Souza, Working Peoples Alliance, Walter Rodney [?]. Tape 5: Georgetown, Guyana. Karen de Souza, poem, WPA, Walter Rodney [?]. ECSI, Working Peoples Alliance, Walter Rodney [?]. Tape 7: Georgetown, Guyana. Uncle Henry. Mr. Henry Harry. Tape 8: Georgetown, Guyana. Moses Bhagwan, "Aunt" Wilhelmina Rodney.


Box 12 Item 64

Bruce Wellington, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Jamaican cricket player.


Box 12 Item 125

Darcus Howe conversation about acting and Black actors in Britain, undated, 1 audiocassettes; Side 1


Box 12 Item 133

Black London , undated, 1 audiocassettes

With Darcus Howe speaking about James Baldwin.


Box 14 Item 189

Ahmed Ullah, Studio, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Off-line copy


Box 14 Item 199

Tribute to Edna Manley, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 15 Item 219

Racisme in Engeland, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Possibly in Dutch?


Box 15 Item 221

South Africa, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 17 Item 303

Here and Now, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Production no. 2061. 12th Series, No. 41.


Box 17 Item 310

Atlanta Part II, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Series V: Personal, circa 1961-2000, undated

Series V is a small group of material containing Darcus Howe's personal and family correspondence, photographs, address book, and a 1988 daily agenda. It also includes programs from funerals and memorial services of Howe's friends and family members and material related to the death of Howe's father, Cipriani Nathaniel Howe.


Box 11 Folder 5

Family photographs, circa 1970s-1990s


Box 11 Folder 6

Personal and family correspondence, 1977-1995, undated


Box 11 Folder 7

Funeral and memorial service programs, 1983-1997


Box 12 Item 112

Frank Kermode, "Justice and Power in King Lear", 1985, 1 audiocassettes; Side 2

BBC Open University program A361


Box 11 Folder 8

Daily agenda, 1988


Box 11 Folder 9

Personal and family documents, 1988-1999, undated


Box 11 Folder 10

Death of Cipriani Nathaniel Howe, 1991-1993

Father of Darcus Howe.


Box 11 Folder 11

Address books, undated


Box 14 Item 195

Martin Luther King Face to Face , circa 1961, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

BBC Production.


Box 12 Item 84

Origins Within the Soul, Hermann Hess and Carl G. Jung; Preface of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, 1984 April 15, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 112

BBC Radio 4 Kaleidoscope: interview with Saul Bellow, 1989 March 3, 1 audiocassettes; Side 2


Box 12 Item 57

Teddy Alexander, Jimmy Richards, 1989 April, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 101

[untitled], 1990 June 27, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 72

Darcus Howe, 1990 December 9, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 103

Darcus talking: Amiri, Trinidad and Tobago, Journalism, 1991 July 10, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 90

Darcus Talking: C. L. R., Trinidad and Tobago, Abu Bakr, 1991 August 5, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 38

The Guide promotional CD, circa 1996, 1 compact disks


Box 12 Item 47

NSYNC, I Want You Back, 1996, 1 audiocassettes

Commercial recording.


Box 12 Item 97

Precious, It's Gonna Be My Way, 2000, 1 audiocassettes

Commercial recording.


Box 12 Item 4

South[ern] American writers (Faulkner, etc.) "Garrulous Ghosts", undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 39

Bob Marley and the Wailers "Survival" and "Uprising", undated, 1 audiocassettes

Commercial recording.


Box 12 Item 45

Careless Hands, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Commercial recording.


Box 12 Item 74

Peter Tosh, Can't Blame the Youth, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Commercial recording. Comp. Peter Tosh, Intel-Diplo H. I. M. label.


Box 12 Item 80

Gone in the Air, undated, 1 audiocassettes

Program on Eric Dolphy, taped from radio.


Box 12 Item 91A

Recording of a BBC program on the poet William Hazlitt, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 91B

Howe interview on his experiences working with the BBC


Box 12 Item 109

Eric Dolphy (1 of 4), undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 15 Item 222

I want it back, undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)

Little bit of out on Tuesday. Ping pong.


Box 15 Item 225

"In the Sky's Wild Noise", undated, 1 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 12 Item 111, 114, 116-117

Unlabeled, unidentified audiocassette, undated, 4 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 112

Interview with violinist Kyung-Wha Chung, undated, 1 audiocassettes; Side 1


Box 12 Item 112

Program on Olivier Messiaen's "Catalogue d'oiseaux", undated, 1 audiocassettes; Side 2


Box 12 Item 123

Unidentified recording of a small child talking, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 128

Songs by David Rudder, undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 12 Item 138

BBC radio discussion "Will the Symphony Survive?" and a Bob Marley song, undated, 1 audiocassettes