AJAMU: ARCHIVAL SENSORIA
Drawing on Ajamu’s personal archive, collected over the artist’s 30-year career, as well as previously unexhibited contact sheets,…
How will you be celebrating Windrush Day 2021?
Windrush Day 2021 will soon be upon us. We want to highlight all of the events and activities…
Dame Donna Kinnair – Realising the hopes of the Windrush Generation
Quite a few of these young hopefuls got jobs in hospitals, not as nurses, but as “orderlies” as…
Black History is British History!
Although, you tried so hard to stop us, put all kind of obstacles in our way, yet we…
WATCH: The Mangrove Nine – We Remember the Protest 50 Years Ago in Notting Hill Gate
The Mangrove Nine were a group of British black activists tried for inciting a riot at a 1970…
Kwaku BBM: Reggae Memories Playlist Or The Non-Anorak’s Choice
Kwaku BBM: Reggae Memories Playlist Or The Non-Anorak’s Choice Click here to listen to ‘BBM/BMC Presents This Is…
British Black Music Month 2021 Launches A Spotify Playlist With A New Record To Be (Re-)Discovered Daily
’61 Daily Dose For British Black Music Month June 1-July 31 (From 50 Year History To Future Rulers)’…
Zoom This Monday Into London’s Wonderful And Varied Representations Of Africans And History
History consultant Kwaku presents a fun, inclusive, interactive, family-friendly journey of discovery of African history and representations across…
Soho Theatre Celebrates Re-opening With The Premiere Of The Verity Bargate Award Winning Play Shedding A Skin
Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award winning play Shedding A Skin written by Amanda Wilkin has been chosen to…
History of Civil Rights in the UK
Civil liberties in the United Kingdom are part of UK constitutional law and have a long and formative history. It is…
Five Interesting And Little Known Facts About Black History
Significant achievements made by black people have been disregarded for most of our history. Because of this, it…
Racism in schools: time for less talk and more real action, says Learning Hive
Efforts to address racism in school settings have been discussed at length by governments, local authorities and school…
Tributes Pour in for Prominent Black Lives Matter Activist Sasha Johnson.
Sasha Johnson is critically ill after being shot in the head. Her party, The Taking the Initiative Party…
1st Anniversary of the Death of George Floyd
Protests were everywhere as people were anguished and angry over his death, and some set fires, broke the…
We at Black History Month are saddened to report that prominent Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson is in a critical condition after being shot.
We understand that she was being treated in intensive care after being shot in the head in the…
Strive Masiyiwa is Named as the First British Black Billionaire on the Sunday Times Rich List
The Zimbabwean telecoms tycoon, who lives in London, has become the first black billionaire to break into The…
AJAMU: ARCHIVAL SENSORIA – 20 May – 11 July 2021
A solo exhibition of new and archival works that spotlight Black Queer legacies in Britain by photographer, artist-scholar,…
Margaret Busby to receive The London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award 2021
Margaret Busby OBE, Hon. FRSL (Nana Akua Ackon) is a major cultural figure in Britain and around the world….
Paul Stephenson – The Civil rights pioneer led a victorious boycott against a racist bus company, paving the way for Britain’s first race laws.
He had been born to a British mother and West African father in Rochford, Essex in 1937 and…
Slave Trade Routes
Countless local and regional slave trades in Europe, Africa, and the Americas combined to create the transatlantic slave…
