He also pointed out that a book about black history is also for white readers since it involved them too. Fryer himself had remarked on the dilemma in the book’s preface, before quoting the West African proverb, “knowledge is like the baobab tree one person’s arms cannot encompass it”. Although fulsomely praised by the likes of CLR James and Salman Rushdie as a breakthrough work of scholarship, others openly questioned whether Fryer, a white Englishman, should, or could, write about black history.
Staying Power was not without its controversy either. It was this and a follow-up piece about how the new migrants were settling in that would ultimately inspire his 1984 book Staying Power, a history of black Britain that opens with the immortal line: “There were black people in Britain before the English came here.”Īt the time, Fryer was best known for his eye-witness account of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, which caused his expulsion from the Communist party for its denunciation of the Soviet Union. Still, with the BlackBerry movie being premiered in May 2023, you might just want a trip down memory lane again, to remember the good times provided by the once-dominant smartphone manufacturer.Angela Cobbinah’s photograph of members of the Tooting Project in south London meeting in 1979, a time when two out of five black people were born in the UKĪS a cub journalist on the Daily Worker Peter Fryer reported on the arrival of the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Dock in 1948 carrying “five hundred pairs of willing hands” from the Caribbean. Sadly, OnwardMobility shut down, taking with it any plans to launch said phones and join the ranks of the best Android phones on the market. In 2021, OnwardMobility teamed up with the manufacturer, FIH Mobile, and announced plans to release a 5G BlackBerry. In 2020, TCL's license ended only to be picked up immediately after by unknown entity, OnwardMobility. In 2016, BlackBerry announced that it would no longer be making devices of its own, with TCL picking up the license. Sadly, those days are gone, and while BlackBerry may still have handful of dedicated users, it's now effectively dead as a smartphone maker. It was yet another unique reason to buy a BlackBerry, appealing to a range of people, not just those in suits. It might be all about WhatsApp now, but BBM had read receipts down donkeys years ago.
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