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//The archive for Black x Brown futures. Told by us. For us. Forever.//
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Joined April 2020
His name was Leeroy Ziweya. This isn’t a rumor — it’s remembrance. From India to Zimbabwe, from silence to story — memory resists erasure. Read the piece. Watch the film. #JusticeforLeeroy
In the wake of Zimbabwean student Leeroy Ziweya’s killing, @blindianproject founder Jonah Batambuze writes on how Black culture is celebrated in India even as Black lives remain under threat of surveillance and violence. https://t.co/74S8Z7aEbp
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SOLIDARITY
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The routes between Africa and India have always run deeper than we’ve been told. Bollywood became one of the earliest emotional languages across the Indian Ocean — even more so against the backdrop of Africa, where its meanings multiplied.
Fun week teaching my Indian Ocean history class about Bollywood in Africa. We read articles on Awaara (1951) in Zanzibar and Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) in South Africa, both massive social phenomena. It's so fun giving American students their first glimpse of Indian cinema.
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Call for Papers - 'Entangled Histories, Shared Futures: South Asia and Africa', June 2026, Zanzibar. Abstracts due December 16. https://t.co/dZ8KjjxPNh
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This isn’t new. What’s new is who’s finally naming it. Racism doesn’t check nationality or religion first — if you “look South Asian,” you’re treated as a target. The real question is whether South Asian spaces look outward now… or retreat into old divisions
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London felt like a homecoming. A room full of memory, laughter, and the kind of solidarity you can’t script. We sold out @RichMixLondon — and proved again that Black × Brown stories aren’t niche. They’re the connective tissue of who we are. 🌱
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Several weeks ago, St. George’s and Union Jack flags started appearing on light posts up and down England. My daughter asked, “Why are there so many flags up?” I didn’t have a simple answer—just a film. https://t.co/n1Mp0L1uO8
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Remember that NYT story that revealed Uganda-born @ZohranKMamdani ticked “African American” & “Asian” on a college application? I spoke with Black and Indian Ugandans in Kampala on what they thought about him claiming an “African” identity, for @guardian. https://t.co/j0PVHK0XSm
theguardian.com
The New York mayoral candidate, who was born in Uganda, has faced backlash in the US over his complex identity – but here in Kampala, Ugandans of Indian descent are unquestioningly considered African
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Leeroy Kundai Ziweya was 22. He came to India to study — and never made it home. My latest for @thenewsminute: “Co-opting African Music, Erasing Black Lives: How Anti-Black Racism Persists in India.”
thenewsminute.com
He died eight days after an attack outside his university gates. On August 13, 22-year-old Leeroy Kundai Ziweya, a Zimbabwean BSc student at Guru Kashi Universi
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It’s not a rumor that we are our own worst enemies — when proximity to power feels safer than solidarity.
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It’s not a rumor that Indians have been in Africa for generations. Some built railways. Many built memory. And some, like Zohran, remind us — African isn’t a color. It’s a geography of belonging.
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It’s not a rumor many feared Black x Brown love — because it dissolves the borders their gods and men built. Empire drew its hierarchies. Caste called it impure. We call it power.
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Film screening: We're working with @RichMixLondon to bring 'In Search of Bengali Harlem' to the UK for the first time. Our Birmingham screening on Nov 9th includes a Q&A with the documentary's creators. Birmingham Tix: https://t.co/atVKgkAfCG London Tix: https://t.co/DHtZibgXMD
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From Malik Ambar’s courts to Leeroy Ziweya’s memory — Africans have always been part of India’s story. Our histories don’t need discovery. They need remembering. #NotARumor #BlindianProject
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What began as an article became something else. A film. A ritual. A remembrance. Not a Rumor is live for 72 hours — weaving grief, rhythm, and resistance into the same breath. https://t.co/c3e6OuZpsQ
Jonah’s film Not A Rumour, premiering today, remixes lived experience of Black and South Asian people into stories of solidarity, culture, and belonging. https://t.co/hhMr8BovNw
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This might be a hard read, but I’m not here to stroke egos — I want us all to be free. https://t.co/tD4O0zWkEW
blindian-project.com
A Brown Wake-Up Moment — and Everyone Else’s (Hopefully)Prologue: The ScriptGo to private school.Join a sports team to learn leadership.Pick up a creative pursuit to look well-rounded.Get a part-time...
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SCA Cinema Club is back! - UK premieres of In Search of Bengali Harlem + Q&A - Screening of Le Grand Voyage Nov 8–9 @ Soul City Arts Tickets: https://t.co/pbRooqCf7l
#SoulCityArts #BengaliHarlem #LeGrandVoyage #BirminghamEvents #Cinema
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"RED CROSS" (2025)| 00:02:44| Video & Sound The flags are still up — for now. The marches have ended. What’s stayed with me isn’t the noise, but the silence — how much, or how little, parents felt they needed to explain depending on where they came from.
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The 1st UK screening of a powerful film uncovering the shared stories of Bengali, Black & Puerto Rican communities in 20th-century Harlem NYC. Screening + Q&A with the U.S. directors Birmingham & London | 8-9 Nov 2025 Tickets: https://t.co/atVKgkANse
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Some say Indians cause public nuisances abroad. Far-right politicians call them a 'threat to US Christian identity'. And others point to the diaspora's double standards. Are Indians now a target amid anti-immigration rows? @KuthaliPu explains https://t.co/RiH5C2OT1x
thenewsminute.com
As anti-immigration sentiments sweep across the US, UK, Canada and Australia, Indians appear to be a particular target. The latest policy likely to overwhelming
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