Sinners Movie Breakdown Part 1 of 4

*Attend Prince of Peckham University for great weekly talks, July-September HERE

Sinners Movie Breakdown Part 1/4

We will go through the movie scene by scene separating fact from fiction and detailing the various metaphors in this densely layered film apparently about vampires but saying much, much, more: We will cover:

• Redlining
• Black economic empowerment 1920s-2025
• Animal symbolism, colours and African Spiritual practices
• Black love on screen
• Royalties, James Brown, What a Bam Bam
• The Black guy in the horror movie
• Hollywoods opposition to positive Black imagery
• Real Black soldiers of World War 1 in Cardiff and Liverpool
• The Klu Klux Klan in Notting Hill
• Suppression of Black films by piracy and distribution
• 17,000 people versus 8 white executives at the BFI Southbank:
• Cinemas and systemic racism in action

Black History Walks has been screening African Diaspora films monthly at the BFI Southbank since 2007 as part of the African Odysseys programme. You can see the next African Odysseys film outside of BFI HERE

What is Prince of Peckham University ?

Black History Walks has teamed up with the Prince of Peckham pub to offer high quality, educational talks by Black academics on a variety of subjects. Prince of Peckham is a black-owned venue offering high quality food, drink and entertainment. Black History Walks runs walks, talks, films, river cruises, helicopter and steam train tours on London's Black history. All of our speakers hold doctorates, are Phd students or authors

There will be fascinating talks each Tuesday from 15 July to 23 September 6.30-8.30pm. Just book your free ticket, come have a drink, meet nice people,chew a pattie and learn. Just as good as Oxford/Cambridge, but it won't cost you £9000 !

These events provide a safe space at a time when they are serious cuts to to Black history /education at Chichester, Birmingham and Goldsmiths universities. Executives at BSix College in Hackney, that has a record of pushing Black students to Oxford/Cambridge, wants to cut its education/Black history programme due to 'restructuring' . The BFI Southbank despite 17,000 signatures to keep the 17-year-old African Odysseys, educational, anti-racist film series going, has cancelled the programme due to 'restructuring'.

For more information and to support BSIX click HERE

For more information and to support African Odysseys click HERE

Prince of Peckham University talks list. 6.30 to 8.30pm. Talk starts at 6.45pm

• 15 July. The gentrification of Peckham and Black Urban Removal worldwide
• 22 July. Successful Community activism in Peckham: The Rye Lane Campaign 2011
• 29 July. Hollywood, Zombies and the demonisation of African Spirituality
• 5 August. African Women Resistance Leaders. Political and Spiritual
• 12 August. Sinners Movie Breakdown Part 1/4
• 19 August. African Imagery and history of Black-owned Pubs
• 26 August. 20 Banned Black films you need to see: African Odysseys
• 2 September. Institutional racism in Academia and @BFI: How to fight it
• 9 September. Sisters and Black British Civil rights 1970s/80s
• 16 September. The Black History of Comedy !
• 23 September. A Black Activist in 1900s Britain: SJ Celestine Edwards

Black History Summer School for kids and adults weekdays 11am to 1pm

Monday 18 August : How Black People won World War Two part 1

Tuesday 19 August: How Black People won World War Two part 2

Wednesday 20 August: Hidden Black History in your street

Watch our latest African Odysseys film, Reclaiming Cocoa 21st June, about how Europe gets rich from Ghana's chocolate and how to reverse the process HERE

About the Speaker for Sinners Movie Breakdown : Dr Michelle Asantewa,

Dr Michelle Yaa Asantewa was born in Guyana. At age 10, she migrated to the UK to reunite with her mother. Her interest in African traditional spiritual practices and cultural identity prompted her to do a PhD on the Guyanese Komfa ritual.

She formerly lectured in English Literature, Editing and Creative Writing at London Metropolitan University and currently facilitates a range of writing workshops as an independent scholar. She is also co-tutor on The Amazing James Baldwin course and the African Women Resistance leaders: Political and Spiritual course. She co-founded Way Wive Wordz Publishing, Editing and Tuition services through which she has published her first novel, Elijah and The Awakening and Other Poems and the more recent titles – her PhD Thesis, Guyanese Komfa: the ritual art of trance, Mama Lou Tales: a folkloric biography of a Guyanese elder and Something Buried in the Yard (an extracted novella from her PhD) were launched in July 2016. She writes a regular blog – Way Wive Wordz .

Dr Asantewa is a member of the African Odysseys Steering Committe which has been showing educational, anti-racist Africa diaspora films at the BFI Southbank until, after 17 years, the BFI cancelled the monthly series against the wishes of the Black community without doing a legally required Race Equality Impact Assessment HERE

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