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plan to this month. the indonesian authorities have sacked the police chief in east java, where one of the worlds worst football stadium disasters happened on saturday. at least 32 children were among 125 people who died in a crush. the police have been widely criticised for using tear—gas on the fans. now on bbc news, witness history. we join celestina olulode in bristol with five important stories from black british history. a warning that this programme contains language that some...

In 1963, the bristol omnibus company refused to employ black people on its buses. we dont want them on there, thats the main reason. there aint going to be enough work for the whites, leave alone the blacks. we intend to go on engaging white labour rather- than coloured labour. they didnt know that i was black, but on my arrival things changed and i become a black person, not a person. at the time, every day there was adverts in the paper for bus drivers and conductors. injamaica, id never seen ...

We spend many waking hours preparing for work, at work, or recovering from work, and many of us live in societies that, in the words of scholar Kathi Weeks, “expect people to work for wages.” In The transatlantic slave trade in the 1500s–1800s bound up capitalism with colonialism and racism. Slavery was progressively abolished starting in the late eighteenth century in Haiti and continued through the nineteenth century, but this did not bring an end to racial hierarchies or the entanglem...