Digging Deep: Coal Miners of African Caribbean Heritage & The North East’ Exhibition
The Digging Deep exhibition reveals personal narratives, memories and creative representations of former coal miners of Black/African-Caribbean heritage…
A black cowboy story with a brilliantly contemporary message
If you’re looking for a film to enjoy, learn from and recommend to others then look no further…
Ignatius Sancho: The Composer
Born in 1729 on a slave ship, Ignatius spent his first two years as an enslaved boy on…
Second World War Service and Sacrifice – Dr Harold Moody (1882-1947)
Born in Jamaica, Harold was the eldest child of a successful retail chemist and strict Congregationalist. Harold moved…
Black History Month is an important time of year to celebrate the huge and often-overlooked contributions of Black people in the UK.
As the third Black woman ever to be elected as an MP, and having made history by becoming…
Second World War Service and Sacrifice – William ‘Bill’ Miller (1890-1970)
Born in Plymouth, William Alexander Miller, known as Bill Miller, was the son of an English mother and…
Powerful And Funny Show To Hit Stage At The Tower Theatre, Folkestone In October
SONGS from my Soul is a powerful exploration of a mother-daughter relationship through song and spoken word playing…
Claudia Jones: The Myth Buster
As we mark African History Month, expect Claudia Jones be become better known this year. She’s the subject…
Ghana And The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Personal Reflection
Last year Melinda Gates, the now divorced wife of Bill Gates, and co-chair of their philanthropic charity Bill…
The last slave owners of Islington
Islington in the 1830s was transforming from rural outskirts into a genteel suburb. Like today, bricks and mortar…
Pearl Alcock – The art of living
A life that experienced abuse, a loveless marriage and the loss of a child before it flowered again…
Lindy Delapenha: Boro’s Jamaican legend
Very occasionally there comes along a footballer with the precision and power of Rudolf Nureyev. Lindy Delapenha, who…
Sir Edward Jonathan Davey FRSA MP
From Mary Prince to Paul Stephenson, so many Black pioneers have transformed our society’s cultural and political landscapes….
The Rt Hon The Lord Paul Boateng of Akyem and Wembley PC DL
The challenge is to prepare by a policy of inclusion rather than exclusion all young people to thrive…
Marcus Rashford, footballer, campaigner, and bestselling author and just a kid from South Manchester
If you check out his biography on Wikipedia it says…. Marcus Rashford MBE is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward…
PROUD TO BE….
I am proud to be following in the footsteps of heroes and sheroes, icons and legends, that are…
Impressive line-up of speakers at Black History Month conference
The conference takes place on 11 October from 1pm-5pm and the speakers include historian and writer David Olusoga…
The 1936 Battle of Cable Street
My birth in 1934, in the Parish of St Georges, at 61, Cable Street a ‘Cockney’ into a…
Minister of State for Equalities, Kemi Badenoch
My status also changed from a middle-class Yoruba school girl in Nigeria, an incredibly diverse country with over…
Black History Month 2021 – let’s make it a festival of celebration
Last year, I wrote that Black Lives Matter protests around the world had sparked a commitment among many…
