No Small matter of Millie and me – When “My Boy Lollipop” came to Woodland Street, Smethwick.
Not only is one end of the street the home of Sunrise Bakery, one of the UK’s first…
Black History Features
Finding resolution and healing through storytelling: An interview with Eli Anderson
Speaking to Jerome Brooks in 1994 (‘The Art of Fiction’ published in The Paris Review) the late Nigerian…
Two Women: An Ex-History Teacher, An Ex-Vice President, Both With A Passion To Commemorate Global African Contributions
Kwaku provides a personal reflection of history advocate Oku Ekpenyon and human rights activist Epsy Campbell Barr and…
The History Of Encyclopedias On African History: Dispelling “Dark Continent” Myths
The blurb for the encyclopedia in part read: “The Africa Factbook is a response to 500 years of…
Commonwealth Games 2022 – A review of the opening ceremony in Birmingham
The Commonwealth Games 2022 took place across 15 venues in the West Midlands, with the track cycling at…
Your silence will not protect you – Audre Lorde
Our journey has led us to explore a range of definitions and this book contains a selection of…
Amanda Huxtable in conversation with Leanna Benjamin
Natasha Gordon’s hit play Nine Night is enjoying its regional premiere at Leeds Playhouse this month. This reimagining…
Cardiff’s Betty Campbell’s Cross
I will begin with a subject that is very personal to me. In the statue’s depiction, Betty wears…
It’s not just Black history
By the time I was 10 years old, I had been to the International Slavery Museum multiple times,…
WANTED: Effective Allies Who Take Meaningful Actions
I don’t want you to just dress like me, but to call out behaviours that hurt, harm, and…
Scratchylus Resetting The Mindset Healing a Fractured Society In These Very Challenging Times
We caught up with Scratchylus to talk about this year’s theme for Black History Month 2022; ‘Time For…
My angry black voice
What is speaking black? Speaking black is making sure that when you’re speaking facts you gotta stay on…
Black men and prostate cancer: what you need to know
Here, Prostate Cancer UK Specialist Nurse Susan Piper answers some common questions about the disease. What is…
The Windrush experience expressed in music – from 1948 to 2022
Among the very first Caribbeans to arrive in Britain aboard the SS Empire Windrush was Aldwyn Roberts, a…
198 Contemporary Arts & Learning – a unique space in London, and so much more than a Black art gallery in Brixton
Steeped in radical history spanning over 50 years, Brixton’s Railton Road is home to 198 Contemporary Arts &…
Civil Rights Movement in Britain…a poverty of knowledge?
But as an immediate thought does Civil Rights conjure images of Britain’s own Civil Rights movement to you?…
London Museum returns stolen treasures to Nigeria-about time
These tokens imply an individual or an organisation is ‘woke’. They are aware of issues like unconscious bias…
WATCH: Black Man Listen, the biography of JR Ralph Casimir: a video reading
This reading from “Black Man Listen”, the biography of JR Ralph Casimir, the pioneering Pan-Africanist, Garveyite and poet…
Colonel (Retd) Andy Allen MBE Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 1984 – 2015
Colonel (Retd) Andy Allen MBE Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 1984 – 2015 As an Army Cadet, Andy…
Louise Da-Cocodia and the discrimination faced by black nurses in the infant days of the NHS
There would appear to be no obvious connection between the two, and yet, in its days of infancy,…
