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Mutual Respect with many Communities
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Bernie Grant with the Orthodox Jewish community
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Bernie Grant celebrating Diwali with the Asian community
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* Photograph of Bernie Grant with the Orthodox Jewish community.
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The archives vividly document the concerns of the numerous diverse communities and marginalised and neglected voices that Bernie Grant tirelessly helped to champion. Through his work on a variety of causes, Bernie Grant established a mutual respect with many communities such as the African, Caribbean, Asian, Irish, Central American, Cypriot and Kurdish to name but a few.
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* Photograph of Bernie Grant celebrating Diwali with the Asian community.
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* Friendships Across the Diaspora *
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Bernie Grant has been described as an ambassador due to the leading role that he took in networking with black people and politicians throughout the world. He travelled extensively and developed friendships and close ties with local, national and international leaders both within and outside of the African Diaspora.

The following photographs from the archives capture the fond mutual respect and friendship that arose between Bernie Grant and leading political figures across the globe:


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Bernie with Oona King
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Bernie Grant with Nelson Mandela
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* Bernie Grant with his good friend Oona King.
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Throughout his substantial history of involvement in fighting Apartheid in South Africa, Bernie Grant maintained a longstanding friendship with Nelson Mandela whom he supported throughout his imprisonment and subsequent release. Within the collection, Bernie Grant's personal invitation to Mandelas inauguration as President of South Africa stands testament to the nature of Bernie Grant's contribution to anti-apartheid campaigning.
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* Bernie Grant with Nelson Mandela in Muswell Hill, London.
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Bernie with Jesse Jackson
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* Bernie Grant with his old friend Rev. Jesse Jackson.
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* Bernie Grant obtained the support and respect of Rev. Jesse Jackson for international and local causes such as the campaign to release the Tottenham Three. He also accompanied the Rev. Jesse Jackson on his mission to South Africa in Feb 1990 where they together greeted Mandela on the day of his release.
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Love of Youth and Cultural Diversity
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Bernie Grant personally and publicly expressed his own respect and appreciation for Black Art and Culture, which led to his support for a new centre for the Performing Arts in Tottenham, an ongoing project now named after him. Bernie Grant was also well known for his love of Carnival, and as Leader of Haringey Council, he lent support to many ventures such as the black youth workers initiatives in organising young people participation in the Notting Hill Carnival and Finsbury Park Carnival. Bernie proudly demonstrated his love for his African-Caribbean roots and culture and on many occasions sought to promote Black culture through his political and civic duties.


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Bernie Grant With Cypriot Children
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* Bernie Grant with Cypriot children during official visit to Cyprus in October 1991.
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* Bernie Grant played a prominent role in youth affairs and was valued and admired for his contribution by young people of all cultural backgrounds, locally and internationally. He was praised for always being willing to listen and give of his time. Bernie Grant enabled many school children the opportunity to visit the House of Commons and encouraged young leaders of the future in both words and actions.
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In addition to defending youth against police harassment, Bernie Grant took on a more far-reaching role in the fight against racial stereotyping of young people, both at home and abroad. He often looked to arts and culture as a means of generating new opportunities for youth in society and hoped that this would work in tandem with creating a more positive representation of black identity.


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Bernie Grant with British Rap artists B.R.O.T.E.R
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Norway Youth expressing thanks
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* Bernie Grant with British Rap artists B.R.O.T.H.E.R (Black Rhyme Organisation to help Equal Rights) in August 1989.
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Bernie Grant, in his capacity as a Member of Parliament and the Parliamentary Black Caucus, made a special guest appearance on the ‘all-star anti-apartheid single’ for the group’s record. With his fun-spirited nature, Bernie Grant lent support to artistic expression that often became a vehicle for supporting social issues of the day as well as articulating cultural and youth identity.
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* Norway Youth expressing thanks for Bernie Grant’s assistance and wishing him a Happy New Year, 1997.
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