There have been riots in Brixton, London, in protest against the Conservative Party's Poll Tax. Report shows night of rioting. Interview with British Prime Minister (PM), Margaret Thatcher ...

Some of those at the heart of the 1981 Brixton riots reflect on the past four decades.

It's been 40 years since the 1981 Brixton riots in London, which was an important event in black British history.

Brixton had long been an area of high tension between the police and the black community. The stabbing and subsequent death of a black man was blamed on police brutality and sparked the riot ...

However, the song "Electric Avenue" is by Black Guyanese-British artist Eddy Grant and it is about the 1981 Brixton race riots in London when the eponymous street became a site of upheaval and ...