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Bishop Wilfred Wood, The Church of England’s first black Bishop
Born in Barbados to Wilfred Coward and Elsie Elmira Wood, in Proute, St Thomas, Wood [later Sir Wilfred]…
WATCH: Queer. Black. British. Tracing LGBTQ+ Histories
Screening of the film and discussion: Beyond ‘There’s Always a Black Issue, Dear’ When the film, Beyond ‘There’s…
Anti-racism in Britain: Histories and Trajectories
Concepts of ‘race’ and racism are central to British history. They have shaped, and been shaped by, British…
Activism: Women and Black Power in the UK
The University of Westminster welcomes Leila Hassan Howe, a leading light in the British Black power movement of…
VIRTUAL Black History Children Workshop: Bernie Grant
Make History come to life with these Sankofa Sunday ‘Black Power: Great Black Leaders & Liberators’ children workshops…
Legendary African-Americans in London 1860s-1960s
Illustrated talk on some of the most famous, and least known, African-Americans who strolled London’s streets and fought…
Katherine Johnson: A Lifetime of STEM
Katherine Johnson loved to count. “I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up…
What was behind the Bristol bus boycott of 1963?
A spring afternoon in 1963. Eighteen-year-old Guy Bailey arrived on time for his job interview. Bailey was well…
Marching With Martin Luther King August 1963 … “I Have A Dream”
Against a backdrop of war wounds, in 1963 a divided Europe was still suffering emotionally from the devastation…
Bridgerton’s real Black History
Revealing the numerous real Black history references in the hit Netflix series, set in 1800’s England, with proof…
Andy Hamilton Saxophonist, composer and bandleader
In 1949, the Jamaican tenor saxophonist Andy Hamilton, faced a dilemma. As a musician he had reached the…
The Colour of Love – a celebration of mixed-race relationships in Nottinghamshire 1940s – 1970s
The Colour of Love uncovers stories of the lives of mixed-race couples in the not-so-distant past, couples who…
A poem for Black History Month
Why are the youth of today intent on taking lives? Such scars left behind, both inside and out,…
15 Black Dancers who Changed American Dance
February is recognised as Black History Month in the United States. Since the country’s bicentennial in 1976, Black…
Black British Swing: Caribbean Contribution to British Jazz in the 1930s and 1940s
To jazz followers, however, it meant the arrival of Jamaican alto saxophonist, Joe Harriott and other modern musicians…
Rosa Parks – The mother of the modern day civil rights movement
Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America….
Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Proclaiming a black nationalist “Back to Africa” message, Garvey and the UNIA established 700 branches in thirty-eight states…
Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: the race riot of one night in June 1943
Bullet holes found in the wood surrounds of the NatWest Bank in Bamber Bridge, in Lancashire in the…
WATCH: The Hill We Climb: the Amanda Gorman poem that stole the inauguration show
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s inauguration ceremony was a star-studded affair, with the likes of Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez stepping…
