This walk recognises 70 years since the SS Windrush arrived from the Caribbean..This tour starts with the 1950’s and goes right up to the 21st century. We will cover:

• Black music history soul, reggage, rave and acid: the legendary 4 Aces
• Hackneys black activism and its pioneering role in housing equality
• Sus and Operation Jackpot, the Freeway Rick Ross Los Angeles connection
• Black British Civil Rights : Hackney Black Peoples Defence Association, Colin Roach and others
• Revolution via reading: Black bookshops, Maarifa, Centerprise
• Gentrification and social cleansing
• Education and the black child, from grassroots campaigns to national change
• Race Relations 1965, 1968,1976 the reasons, the impact, the legacies
• The rise of the black church

• Other coming events from BHW
• • Black History bus tour
  • African Superheroes Day
  • Black history river cruise
  • Trafalgar Square, St Paul’s, Soho, Elephant & Castle, Notting Hill
  • The Black history of video games
  • Black presence in the National Gallery
  • Clapham Common walk
  • How to move to the Caribbean and live Good!
  • Heroic Black Sailors of the 1800s