Alex Wheatle was one person who got caught up in the riots. In 1981, Alex was a teenager in Brixton where he took part in what was happening. He was arrested and spent six months in prison.

The riots, which began 40 years ago today, showed that Brixton had had enough. It was time for change – and life as we know it in Brixton would never be the same.

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 ...

As the 25th anniversary of the Brixton riot approaches, BBC News examines the significance of the events of April 1981. The rioting was sparked by the arrest of a black man. The disturbances which ...

This weekend marks 40 years since the Brixton riots, when clashes across three dramatic days left 300 injured. They followed months of tension between the Metropolitan Police and London’s black ...

THE Brixton riot was a shocking orgy of violence that rocked the nation and sparked a wave of unrest across UK cities in 1981. At the time, the war zone that broke out in South London was viewed as… ...

The Brixton Riots inspired many articles, books, songs and poems. Firebrand poet Linton Kwesi Johnson recalled it in his 1996 piece, ...

Christopher's friend Sheldon Thomas also took his stand against police during the Brixton riots, aged just 16. Now an expert on gang culture - he believes his generation paved the way for huge change.

For retired bus driver Sherron Richards, 56, who has lived in Brixton for 20 years, many of the tensions that led to the riot in 1981, especially around policing, still exist today.

It is an approach Clovis Reid, who lived through the riots, remembers only too well. The 61-year-old, now working as a school liaison officer, said: "Brixton was a pressure cooker waiting to explode.

Brixton riot – Terrifying moment men fight with knives in the street as party turns into chaotic mass brawl. Brittany Vonow; Published: 12:19, 25 Jun 2020; Updated: 20:27, 25 Jun 2020; ...

Panter-Downes alluded to the nation’s despondency in the early years of Thatcher’s reign, but Jane Kramer comprehensively explored it in her May, 1981, report from London.Kramer wrote with ...