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Based on the principles of chess, our clothing is for those who are forward thinking, move with purpose and work as a team to achieve a common goal.

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22/01/2024

Financial Times - keep your head screwed on & warm

22/02/2023

John Brown - A militant American abolitionist whose raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia), in 1859 made him a martyr to the antislavery cause and was instrumental in heightening sectional animosities that led to the American Civil War (1861–65).

Brown was found guilty of murder, inciting slave insurrection and treason against the state. Upon hearing his sentence he said:

“…if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments--I submit; so let it be done!”

21/02/2023

Jane Elliott - Jane Elliott, internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, exposes prejudice and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors.

In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968, Jane Elliott devised the controversial and startling, "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Exercise." This, now famous, exercise labels participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority.

20/02/2023

Mary White Ovington - Ovington was born in 1865 in Brooklyn to parents who supported women's rights and the abolition of slavery. As a young woman, Ovington decided to join the civil rights movement after hearing Frederick Douglass speak at a Brooklyn church.
Ovington helped to set up a national conference to discuss justice and civil rights for Black Americans. In response, dozens of white activists and seven Black Americans, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells signed a statement that was released on the centennial of Lincoln's birthday on February 12, 1909. A few months later, NAACP held its first meeting.

19/02/2023

Frederick Douglass - an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman. After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings.

17/02/2023

Thomas Sankara - former president of the country he named Burkina Faso, he seized power in a 1983 popularly supported coup at the age of 33, with the goal of eliminating corruption and the dominance of the former French colonial power. He immediately launched one of the most ambitious programmes for social and economic change ever attempted on the African continent.

15/02/2023

Louis Farrakhan - A polarising character, commonly labelled anti-white, antisemitic & heretical by some. Few can discredit the work he has done on vocalising the importance of doing for self & encouraging African-Americans to establish independent communities and systems.

14/02/2023

Patrice Lumumba - the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. He played a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a colony of Belgium into an independent republic. Ideologically he was an African nationalist and Pan-Africanist.

13/02/2023

Muhammad - known as “The Greatest” for his actions both inside and outside of the ring. Ali risked his boxing career and jail time to resist being inducted to fight in the Vietnam War.

08/02/2023

Assata Shakur - American political activist and member of the Black Liberation Army. She was convicted of the murder of a state trooper but escaped prison while serving a life sentence & fled to Cuba where she was granted political asylum. She has been on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list since 2013.

05/02/2023

Revolutionary and political activist. Huey was a co-founder of the Black Panther Party. Under his leadership the Black Panther party founded over 60 community support programs including food banks, medical clinics, sickle cell anemia tests, prison busing for families of inmates, legal advice seminars, clothing banks, housing cooperatives, and their own ambulance service.

04/02/2023

Angela Davis - former member of the Black Panther Party & Communist Party. She advocated for the abolishment of prisons and the prison-industrial complex.
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