Pod 6 of 7 – Who’s The Most Famous Person You’ve Ever Had Visit Your Shop?
The UK Race And Disparity Report: Commissioned By Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson After The Black Lives Matter & Slavery Statue Protests June 2020, Caused By The Police Brutality Murder of George Floyd In America. (Published March 2021)
Wayne In His Brixton Gallery With Award-Winning British-Jamaican Writer, Linton Kwesi Johnson (March 2024). He Says Johnson’s 1980s Music Track ‘Sonny’s Lettah’ Introduced Him To The Concept of Revolution. A Young Man Suffering From Police Harassment Finds Himself In Prison After Standing Up To Them. He Describes It As “Reggae Poetry” And Something He Can Relate To Having Grown Up In Brixton And Witnessed Poor Police Behaviour First Hand.
Johnson Says “As A School Boy I Had No Idea Black People Wrote Books”. Becoming A Member of The Black Power Movement Introduced Him To Literature And He Eventually Became An Award-Winning Writer, Public Speaker, And World Class Orator. lintonkwesijohnson.com:
This Highlights The Biased Nature of The British Education System And The Importance of Being Taught Black History. And Furthermore How The Absence of A Diverse Narrative Can Help Formulate Social & Cultural Impressions And Stereotypes of Black People. By Both White People, And, Black People Themselves!
‘The Souls of Black Folk’ By W.E.B. DU BOIS (Co. Founder of The NAACP) Inspired Him To Write Poetry, As Did The Black Panther Movement In America (Especially With The Athletes At The 1968 Olympics Makin The Black Panther Sign With Their Fists Bein’ Very Inspirational To Many In The Movement At The Time).
He Says Music Was Important Too. Marvin Gaye – ‘What’s Going On?’ Stevie Wonder – ‘Just Enough For The City’. James Brown – ‘Say It Loud And Say It Proud.’ ‘I’m Black And I’m Proud’. He Describes The Latter As “One of The Earliest Rap Tunes’ Because James Brown Is Not Just Naturally Singing On That Track, He’s Talking Too”.
Linton Also Joined Darcus Howe, A Main Black Power Movement Speaker, Editing A Magazine Produced Through The Race Today Collective Associated With The Black Power Movement. Also A Firsthand Witness To This Era of Black British Race Relations History Was Photographer Charlie Phillip (With Wayne, Column Three, Opposite).
The Mangrove Case Was Central To This As The First To Judicially Recognize Racism Within The Met Police. And Where Black British Citizens Successfully, Legally, Fought Back Against Police Lies And Harassment.
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The Morgan Report: Commissioned By Conservative Home Secretary Theresa May 2013 (Published June 2021)
The Morgan Report Included The Finding That The MET Were Institutionally Corrupt Because They Cared More About Protecting Their Public Image, Than Getting To The Truth And Revealing It, In Accordance With Their Oath To ‘Serve And Protect The Public’. [As Opposed To Serving And Protecting Themselves.]
In Her Subsequent Report Published In March 2023, Dame Louise Casey Urges The Police And The Government To Pay Particular Attention To The Morgan Report Findings In Regard To Institutional Police Corruption Which Exists.
Stormzy Has Become Quite The Community Hero And Is Often Seen Out And About In His Local Manner Which Includes Brixton And Croydon.
His Scholarship Funding For Students From Under-Privileged Backgrounds To Attend Cambridge University Is Legendary.
At The BRITS 2018 He Famously Gave A Stellar Performance Where He Called Out Theresa May And The Tory Government In Protest of Their Lack of Action Following The Grenfell Fire Tragedy.
In 2019 He Became The First Black Solo Male Performer To Headline Glastonbury. The Elusive Artist Banksy Designed Him An Exclusive Stab-Proof Vest Featuring A Likeness of The Union Jack In Honor of The Occasion. The Vest And The Performance Have Become Iconic.
That Same Year He Also Officially Entered The National Portrait Gallery. Wayne Looks Forward To Meeting Him Should He Pass By His Brixton Gallery Again. @Stormzy
Brothers In Arms, Hugging It Out: Wayne Campbell Wearing ‘A Celebration of Demonstration’ T-Shirt & Misan Harriman Wearing A ‘Stop Killing Children‘ Protest T-Shirt.
Fellow Photographer & Visual Activist @aubz_click Took The Photograph September 2025 At Wayne’s Exhibition @p21_Gallery.
Harriman, Who Is Also A Royal Photographer of The King, Prince Harry, Meghan, Archie & Lili, Has Been Nominated For A Humanitarianism Award This Year As A Result of His Visual Activism @misanharriman.
The Angiolini Report: Commissioned By Conservative Home Secretary Priti Patel November 2021 (Published February 2024)
The Then Home Secretary Priti Patel Commissioned The Angiolini Report (November 2021) After Rapist Cop Wayne Couzens Was Sentenced To A Whole Life Prison Term (September 2021) For The Rape And Murder of Sarah Everard. The Next Home Secretary Suella Braverman Extended The Inquiry After Another Rapist Police Officer, David Carrick, Was Sentenced To A Prison Term of 36 Life Sentences And 30 Years Minimum (February 2023).
The Remit of The Three Part Inquiry Was:-
One, To Investigate How It Was Possible That A Serving Police Officer Had The Ability To Abduct, Rape, Murder And Desecrate A Member of The Public (Published 29 February 2024);
Two, To Investigate The Risk of Reoccurence (Published 2025);
Three, Produce A Similar Report With Regard To The Multiple Rapes And Attacks By Former Police Officer Into David Carrick.
Notably: Both Sex Predators Served In The Same Police Unit (Royal And Diplomatic Protection); Couzens Was Known As ‘The Rapist’. Carrick Was Known As ‘Dave The Bastard’.
Everard Family Statement In Response To Part 1 of The Angiolini Report.
Wayne In His Brixton Gallery With Legendary Photographer Charlie Phillips (January 2024). In The 1950s Charlie Was Attacked By A Group of Teddy Boys And Rescued By A White Woman Who Put Her Arm Around Him & Took Him Away, Telling The White Racists To Leave Him Alone.
She Shouted: – “We’ve Got Sons As Well!” –
(By Which She Meant That White Mothers Could Empathize With Black Women Who Would Not Wish To Hear Harm Had Come To Their Sons.)
The Incident Inspired Him To Start Taking Photographs.
As Wayne Says, He Was The OG Visual Activist.
You Can Find Out More About Charlie Phillip And His Involvement In The 1970s Black Power Movement In TO.P’s Review of The Excellent Steve McQueen Documentary ‘A Story of Resistance’ (2021). It Also References McQueen’s Excellent ‘Small Axe’ Anthology (2020) @smallaxeseries.
Both Were Produced In The Wake of The Black Lives Matter Demonstrations And Slavery Statue Protests. Both Are More In Touch With The People And Reality Than The Sewell (aka Sewage) Report. And Both Highlight Protests Against Bad Policing (See Top of Column One, Opposite).
In 2013 McQueen Became The First Black Man To Produce A Film Which Subsequently Won Best Picture (’12 Years A Slave’)
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