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International Holocaust Memorial Day: Hackney remembers victims and survivors of genocide

Mayor of Hackney Phil Glanville speaking on Holocaust Memorial Day. Picture: Hackney Council/ Gary M

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A video featuring Hackney community leaders has been released in tribute to victims of the Holocaust and other genocides.
An independent Homerton cinema founded through community crowdfunding will be celebrating it's fifth birthday next month

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Community cinema celebrates five years of motion pictures

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The statue of Sir Robert Geffrye features prominently on one side of the museum's building. 

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Hackney anti-racism group praise 'inspirational' Colston 4

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Hackney poet, playwright and author Lemn Sissay OBE. 

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'Reach for the stars,' says poet Lemn Sissay

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The now derelict An Viet House, also known as the Old Bath House, will be transformed into a community centre

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De Beauvoir to house UK's first East and South-East Asian resource centre

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The Brocals exhibit at Hackney Museum

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Wallpaper exhibit shares stories and memories from Hackney Brocals

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Bran Symondson captures an Afghan boy holding an AK-47 in 2010

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'I see the AK-47 as a blank canvas', former soldier turned artist...

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Protesters are demanding the removal of the statue of Robert Geffrye.

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'Protests to continue' despite Hoxton museum stating it could move slave...

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Walrond House in Newington Green

Housing News

Intergenerational Hackney housing project wins top award

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A special Rio Cinema film screening will celebrate 30 years since the Anti-Racist Alliance was formed

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Rio Cinema screening to pay tribute to the Anti-Racist Alliance

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