Windrush 2023: Industrial Voices of Windrush Nottinghamshire
Industrial Voices of Windrush Nottinghamshire is part of WINDRUSH 2023 events, 75 years anniversary talk and presentation by Norma Gregory, leading…
Black History Event Highlights
The Mark Elie Dance Foundation & Classically British & Co, in association with Portobello Dance School, hails a triumphant success following their recent local charity fundraising event on Monday 10th April.
(Monday 17th April 2023) The stars certainly came out in full force from the world of entertainment in…
Cleveland Watkiss: The Great Jamaican Songbook
Cleveland Watkiss is one of the most celebrated British Jazz vocalists of his generation. He won the Ivor…
Women of the Windrush
Through mesmerising song and archive film footage, Shirley J. Thompson’s opera Women of the Windrush portrays inspirational narratives…
Gus John: The Struggle for Racial Equity and Social Justice, Then and Now
Professor Gus John has been fighting racism and standing up for Black youth ever since he first arrived…
Leading Black celebrities join NHS campaign to get Black communities around the country talking about bowel cancer screening
The TV presenter Sean Fletcher, Olympic athlete Kriss Akabusi MBE and Dame Floella Benjamin are supporting the first…
Celebrating the Legacies of Black Ink
An evening with Desrie Thomson-George, co-founder of the Black Ink Collective, who will tell its story with readings…
Windrush Stories with author Tony Fairweather and Alexis Keir
After WW2 England was on its knees, so the call went out to the British Empire for volunteers…
PAST Thematic Overview: Modern Black History
The National Archives collection spans 1,000 years. Throughout this period, there has been a Black presence in Britain,…
Salute to Baroness Ros Howells
Baroness Howell has had an outstanding career in the fight for racial equality in Britain Director of…
Challenging Racisms in Higher Education and Beyond
Join us for the Second Annual Westminster Conversations Conference on “Challenging racisms in higher education and beyond”. This…
JTL supports the DfE’s decision to list apprenticeships on the UCAS portal
The plans, announced in February, mean that thousands of apprenticeship opportunities will be listed alongside the undergraduate routes…
The Adventures of a Black Edwardian Intellectual
Born in 1873 in All Saints village, Antigua, James Arthur Harley was a poor island boy who dared…
Nigerian Cultural Festival
Come and experience the rich and vibrant culture of Nigeria at the Nigerian Cultural Festival, Greenwich Borough! This…
Selected History: Chronicling the Nineteenth-Century Past
“We stand here on the shoulders of so many others…. they all enable us to move forward in…
The Mark Elie Dance Foundation & Classically British & Co, in association with Portobello Dance School, to host Charity fundraising event
In celebration of an incredible 30 years of the Mark Elie Dance Foundation, & Classically British & Co,…
The future: creative and irresistible
Muyiwa Oki, the incoming president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, will speak about the fear of…
Thomas Birch Freeman: The black Victorian Missionary and Botanist
Rev. Thomas Birch Freeman (1809-1890) was an Anglo-African Victorian missionary and botanist. In 1837 he was ordained as a…
Stepping out from the shadow
Mark’s illustrated talk will take us on a journey from 18th Century Sheffield through to the present, telling…
WATCH: 1000 Black Boys
We are committed to inspiring Black Boys and young Black Men to unleash their potential and live a…
