Patrick Vernon OBE has been a tireless campaigner for the rights of the Windrush generation for years. A key figure in the push for the British government to adopt 22 June as Windrush Day in 2018, Vernon is a lifelong political activist, commentator and cultural historian. Just last week a petition he organised was delivered to Downing Street demanding the speedy implementation of recommendations from the Windrush Lessons Learned review.
Today, to celebrate Windrush Day and his parent’s generation, Vernon selects a host of tracks that serve as artefacts from the Windrush era and the generation’s enduring legacy.
“Many of these tracks were played in my family home, christenings, weddings or [at] the local youth club discos in Wolverhampton in the 1960s and 70s. Some of the tracks now on reflections are national anthems reflecting the Windrush Generation and us as the offspring, [from] Many Rivers to Cross and Young Gifted and Black to Aswad’s Warrior Charge.”
Patrick Vernon OBE is speaking on this panel, reflecting the ongoing campaign for justice for the Windrush generation, today. Sign Vernon’s Windrush: Never Again petition here.
Windrush Day – Mixed by Patrick Vernon OBE
Windrush Day – Mixed by Patrick Vernon OBE
Patrick Vernon OBE has been a tireless campaigner for the rights of the Windrush generation for years. A key figure in the push for the British government to adopt 22 June as Windrush Day in 2018, Vernon is a lifelong political activist, commentator and cultural historian. Just last week a petition he organised was delivered to Downing Street demanding the speedy implementation of recommendations from the Windrush Lessons Learned review.
Today, to celebrate Windrush Day and his parent’s generation, Vernon selects a host of tracks that serve as artefacts from the Windrush era and the generation’s enduring legacy.
“Many of these tracks were played in my family home, christenings, weddings or [at] the local youth club discos in Wolverhampton in the 1960s and 70s. Some of the tracks now on reflections are national anthems reflecting the Windrush Generation and us as the offspring, [from] Many Rivers to Cross and Young Gifted and Black to Aswad’s Warrior Charge.”
Patrick Vernon OBE is speaking on this panel, reflecting the ongoing campaign for justice for the Windrush generation, today. Sign Vernon’s Windrush: Never Again petition here.
