*Some years ago, I featured OUR ROOTS documenting the WINDRUSH Story Project on EURweb albeit in black and white.

Years later, many are talking about WINDRUSH in the United Kingdom  and beyond. I first documented it in the UK’s Voice newspaper. Later it wasdocumented again on EURWEB in colour. What is WINDRUSH about?… you may ask.

Firstly, Windrush was the name given to the German ship which on June 22nd, 1948, was the ship known as HMT Empire Windrush when it docked at Tilbury, Essex in England and helped changed the face of British history forever. The ship carried one of the first waves of Caribbeans who were looking to make a fresh start in Britain. This was at the British government’s invitation. The group of Windrush arrivals numbered 492 — men, women, and one child, a 13-year-old boy. Since then, the Windrush Generation has made a remarkable impact on British culture, and communities are richer for their heritage and traditions. British politicians of the day then questioned why Caribbean people were allowed to come to Britain. There was hostility to their coming.

In light of this, this year, it has been necessary to highlight the story and commemorate 75 years of Windrush. since the arrival of Caribbean people to the UK through workshop activities, storytelling and video presentations, and documentaries. It is a Black history story that must be told.

There also was the Windrush scandal that surfaced in 2017 after it emerged that hundreds of Commonwealth citizens, many of whom were from the ‘Windrush’ generation, had been wrongly detained, deported, and denied legal rights. It was a political time bomb.

Source: TAYO Fatunla’s WINDRUSH Story Project – The People That Helped Shape Britain