‘Bristol is a massive melting pot of different cultures: it’s Black, it’s White, it’s Irish, it’s Indian, it’s African and that is where the culture of music in Bristol has grown’ affirms Roni Size, leader of the drum and bass collective Reprazent, in the short but eyeopening documentary Bristol Sound. We are all aware that [...]

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Feminism is dead, according to NetMums – a UK based parenting website run by mothers. The findings of their recent survey, which polled over one thousand three hundred women currently living in the UK, saw just 14% say that they consider themselves a feminist. So what does this mean for feminism in our society? NetMums [...]

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The life and achievements of Bristol University’s first black Student Union president. In honour of Black History month, Epigram is looking at the life and achievements of George Odlum, Bristol University’s first black president of the Student Union. Odlum, the son of a barber, moved from his native St Lucia in 1956 to come and [...]

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The less seasoned historians amongst you, perhaps those who weren’t as captivated as us by GCSE History, deserve an explanation of what exactly the Transatlantic Slave Trade was. Beginning in the 16th Century, the trade involved the buying of black African men and women from tribes on the west coast of Africa by European merchants. [...]

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Epigram takes a look at the history of Bristol’s multicultural heritage following National Black History Month in October. When thinking of the African-Caribbean Freedom Struggle the first names that come to mind are Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr. However, what is often left unsaid is the role of Bristolian, Paul Stephenson. He catalysed [...]

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France has taken genuine, progressive steps towards the legalisation of gay marriage and adoption for same-sex couples, yet the reaction to it has once again revealed its penchant for obstinate atavism. A draft law authorising improved rights for same-sex relationships has been approved. A January parliament vote is its final hurdle but President Francois Hollande [...]

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No one can deny that November 2008 was a defining moment for both the American people and the global community. It was nothing less than one of the greatest milestones in political and social history. It was the election of Barack Obama to the office of President of the United States. President Obama was transformed [...]

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In the spirit of the eternal words of California’s ex-governor; ‘I’ll be back’, the controversial debate surrounding the death penalty has once again reared its head in the golden state. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1978 following its brief suspension in 1976, 13 people have been executed by the Californian state authorities [...]

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The assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was not perpetrated by Lee Harvey Oswald, at least not on his own or by his own design. It was the Freemasons, the Jews, the CIA, take your pick. A strange hierarchical web exists – you just have to learn how to read the codes They think we can’t [...]

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What is the difference between the student life in America and in England? The standard response would be related to the high drinking age in the States but what does it really boil down to? The Greek life, those red cups and the constant games of beer pong all embody the American college experience. Just [...]

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