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Darcus Howe
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Born
| Leighton Rhett Radford
(
1943-02-26
)
26 February 1943
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Died
| 1 April 2017
(2017-04-01)
(aged 74)
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Cause of death
| Complications from
prostate cancer
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Nationality
| British,
Trinidadian
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Occupations
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Darcus Howe
(26 February 1943 – 1 April 2017) was a British broadcaster, writer,
[1]
and
civil liberties
campaigner.
He was an editor of
Race Today
, and chair of the
Notting Hill Carnival
. He was best known in the UK for his
Black on Black
series on
Channel 4
; his affairs programme,
Devil's Advocate
; and his work with
Tariq Ali
on
Bandung File
.
[2]
Howe died in
Streatham
,
London
on 1 April 2017 from complications of
prostate cancer
, aged 74.
[3]
- Bio
, BlackinBritain.co.uk, accessed 13 August 2011.