Beverley Bryan was born on 18 August 1949 and is a Jamaican educationist and retired academic who was a professor of language education at the University of the West Indies in Mona.
13 Facts About Beverley Bryan
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Beverley Bryan studied teaching at Keele University, Staffordshire, and moved back to Brixton to teach at a primary school.
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Beverley Bryan was a member of the British Black Panthers in the early 1970s, and later together with such activists as Olive Morris and Liz Obi helped to found the Brixton-based Black Women's Group, a collective that shared similar radical views.
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Beverley Bryan co-authored with Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe the book The Heart of the Race, a collaborative work that came about through the concerns of the BWG, which was published in 1985 by Virago Press.
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In June 2020, Beverley Bryan spoke about her involvement with the Black Panther Movement in a rare interview with Tell A Friend podcast.
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Beverley Bryan spoke about the challenges she experienced during the 1970s era of racial discrimination.
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In 1992, Beverley Bryan moved back to Jamaica to join the University of the West Indies as a lecturer in educational studies.
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Beverley Bryan was promoted to senior lecturer in 2002 and to professor in 2011, and served as head of the Department of Educational Studies.
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Beverley Bryan is a leading authority on Jamaican Creole learners of English, and has worked as a consultant to the Ministry of Education on language policy.
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Beverley Bryan has advised other Caribbean governments on literacy policies, as well as serving as a member of the United Nations Literacy Decade Experts' Group.
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Beverley Bryan was one of the founders of the Caribbean Poetry Project launched in 2010, a collaboration between UWI and the University of Cambridge that aims to increase the visibility of Caribbean writers in the UK.
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Beverley Bryan was the keynote speaker at the Eighth Annual Huntley Conference in 2013, addressing the topic "Educating Our Children, Liberating Our Futures".
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Beverley Bryan is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa with "A Windrush Story".