Life Of Manchester’s Black Hero Celebrated In New Project
TRIBUTE: Beresford Edwards 11/01/2014
THE LIFE of one of Manchester’s most celebrated black campaigners is set to be recognised in an exhibition and documentary to be screened next year.
Beresford Edwards, who died in 2003 in his native Guyana, was also known as Chief Nana Bonsu (an honorary title given to him because of his work with the Pan African Congress Movement) and Baba Berry.
He hit the national headlines in the late 1960s when he took one of Britain’s most powerful trades unions to court and won.
Now his life will be celebrated through a project that is being backed by a £49,700 Heritage Lottery Fund grant. The documentary’s production and the creation of an exhibition, which will show at the Z-arts centre in Hulme, will also provide training opportunities through Moss Side-based media charity First Cut for 50 volunteers and young people aged between 16 and 24. [Read more]
