Windrush Day 2022 – how are you celebrating
You’ll find a full list of Windrush Day 2022 events and activities around the UK on Black History…
The Windrush experience expressed in music – from 1948 to 2022
The Windrush experience began with Caribbeans being invited to Britain to help rebuild the country after World War…
BBM Sounds Is Looking For DJs And Presenters And Launches On MMD With a 12-Hour BBM Livestream
For the third year running, BritishBlackMusic.com/Black Music Congress (BBM/BMC) will be supporting the annual Make Music Day (MMD)…
Harambee Pasadia Afro Fusion Arts Festival 2022
Harambee Pasadia Afro Fusion Arts Festival is back for 2022 with an amazing line-up of musicians, performers and…
Africanism in Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Early Poetry
Afro-Caribbean and Black British dub poets, as represented by Jamaican-born Linton Kwesi Johnson, take heed of their artistic…
From Nanny To Ninja Man: The Role of Revolution In Jamaican Music and Society
Revolutionary political and musical concepts have transformed Jamaica and its relations with the outside world for centuries. From…
World Blood Cancer Day 2022
World Blood Cancer Day 2022 is Saturday 28 May. This year, we celebrate 31 years since DKMS was…
Renowned International Musician Leon Bosch Returns To South Africa For First Visit In Many Years
It is likely to be an emotive occasion for the musician who left his native South Africa in…
Black Female Church Leader Makes History In Appointment As Bishop Of Croydon
Downing Street has announced that Her Majesty The Queen has approved the appointment of the Venerable Dr Rosemarie…
WATCH: African Community Service and Sacrifice
Folarin Kuku joined the Army in 2005 and attended Sandhurst he was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards. In…
An Adopters story
I reside in west London and used to be a foster carer. When one of the children (with…
When Frederick Douglass Came to Rochdale A Slave and Left A Free Man.
Frederick Douglass drew himself up to his height of just over 6 feet, looked out over the packed…
The White Knight Box A West Indian Journey
Even the very real threat of German U-Boats couldn’t deter him, anywhere was better than small-island, no-opportunity, boring…
WATCH: Black & British The Futz Butler feat. Tony D
This October, veteran British battle rapper Tony D has collaborated with bespoke London sound house The Futz Butler…
WATCH: Stephen Lawrence Day 2022
Stephen’s story is both challenging and inspirational. He was a normal young person who made the most of…
British and Commonwealth Community Films
These films explore the service and sacrifice of different communities from Britain and the Commonwealth from the First…
WATCH: Caribbean Community Service and Sacrifice
“I was born in Woolwich, east London, to West Indian parents who had migrated to Britain in the…
Three artists awarded commissions as part of new APP commissions
The 2022 APP Commissions Programme aims to increase the presence of practitioners of minoritised ethnicities interacting with the…
Washington Mural celebrates Judge Jackson, the first Black woman confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States
US artist Nia Keturah Calhoun is recording history in the making with her paintbrush. A mural in North…
Give Hope this Easter: Church leaders come together at Easter to address urgent need for organ and blood donors of Black heritage
Faith leaders from 30 church organisations are joining with NHS Blood and Transplant to support the 2022 ‘Give…
