When clashes between residents and police erupted onto the streets of Brixton in 1981, in the heart of London's African-Caribbean community, the British press largely told one side of the story. When ...

On a warm summer's day in July 1982, the Brixton West Indies Cricket Club and the Metropolitan Police came together in an attempt to bridge their differences by playing a game of cricket at the Oval.

Award-winning novelist Alex Wheatle was abandoned by his Jamaican-born parents as a young boy and spent his childhood in a brutal children’s home. As a teenager he made a living hustling on the ...