American Black History Month Round Up
If you missed any of our twenty-eight lesser known people and organisations who have changed the Americas for…
Community features
Black History Month Diversity Champion Merseyside Police
Can you tell us about Merseyside Police? Merseyside is a metropolitan police force as Liverpool is our major…
WATCH: Call For Black Blood and Organ Donors to ‘Be There’ For Their Community
Ethnicity can often play an essential part in blood transfusions, stem cell transplants and organ transplants. Black donors…
Black History Month Diversity Champion: Cheshire Constabulary
BHM: It’s really great that Cheshire Police is supporting Black History Month this year by becoming a Black…
Why We Need More Black Blood and Organ Donors
As long as it’s from someone and there’s always someone else, always a donor, so we don’t have…
Dele Aro and Amacoast Cinema
The story of Amacoast begins 8 years ago whilst its creator, Dele Aro is still in University studying…
Screening for sickle cell and thalassaemia
Sickle cell disease is the name given to a family of conditions. The most serious type is sickle…
Realising Potential and Moving Forward Together: a joint conference for Essex Police and Kent Police
Essex Police and Kent Police have been working collaboratively during the past few years to promote the black…
Laughter and Music Show Comes To London
When the Laughter and Music show takes centre stage at the world famous Nell’s Jazz and Blues Club later…
An Open Letter to Wandsworth Council
It has come to my attention that you are taking it upon yourselves to change a momentous occasion…
Covering: Notting Hill Carnival
Instead, Notting Hill Carnival has become a gem in our social calendar because it has become our nations…
Keith Musaman Morton: Steelpan Evolutionist
I met with such an achiever, Keith Musaman Morton, producer of the film; Panomundo Part 1: The Evolution…
Community Heroes: Ricardo Robertson
What would follow would be the invention of an ingenious and personalised education programme which converted forty two…
The History of AIDS in Africa
There is now conclusive evidence that HIV originated in Africa. A 10-year study completed in 2005 found a…
African Caribbean sperm and egg donors wanted today
Manchester Fertility, one of the UK’s leading donor sperm banks and treatment centres using donor eggs, is currently…
African London
Africans were brought to London in the late 16th century because of Britain’s role in the slave trade….
Young Caribbean migrants & growing up in the UK
There were sizable Black communities in Cardiff, Liverpool and South Shields but it is likely that for most…
The Self Help Movement
The movement came about as a result of two distinct yet converging impulses. The first was the desire…
