CMRSA Around the World

This page lists interviews with activists, advocates, filmmakers, and academics whose work has benefited global mixed-race communities:

Interview with Jude Hughes, Chairperson of Mixed Race Irish, and Co-Founder of Harmony, one of Ireland’s first anti-racist organizations, sharing his journey from St Patrick’s mother and baby home, through Industrial schools, to running his successful tailoring business and tireless decades-long advocacy against racism. View Interview Here

Interview with Lucy Bland, FRHistS, Professor of Social and Cultural History, Anglia Ruskin University, England, sharing her book, ‘Britain’s Brown Babies: The Stories of Children Born to Black GIs and White Women in the Second World War.’ Listen Interview Here

Interview with Melanie Hogan, Film writer and Director, sharing Kanyini, Stolen Generations Testimonies, a first feature film and the Australian Constitutional referendum. View Interview Here

Interview with Jérémiah Vervoort, Doctorant au Centre de Recherches en Droit Pénal de l’Université libre de Bruxelles, Membre du Centre de Recherche sur l’Expérience de Guerre, équipe intégrée de la MSH, sharing his thoughts on the pending legal case brought by five ‘mixed-race’ women, for reparations from the Belgian state for crimes against humanity for abducting them from their mothers when they were children and placing them into religious institutions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. View Interview Writeup Below