Black History Month Resource Pack 2019
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Black History Features
Mark Marcus Garvey’s Birthday With A Community Discourse On Pan-Africanism Vision And Implementation
Almost 120 years after it gained currency, history consultant Kwaku argues that if pan-Africanism is not to atrophy…
John Kent – Britain’s First Black Policeman
The dates of John’s police career are surprising, 1835 to 1846. The story began with John’s father Thomas…
The First Pan-African Conference
Organised primarily by the Trinidadian barrister Henry Sylvester Williams, it took place in Westminster Town Hall (now Caxton…
Clive Sullivan Rugby’s First Black Captain
A Great Britain and Wales international winger, he played with both Hull and Hull Kingston Rovers in his…
Recruitment group Robert Walters launches national art award with Saatchi Gallery & UK Young Artists
The inaugural Robert Walters Group UK Young Artist of the Year Award in partnership with Saatchi Gallery and…
Siobhan Aarons, Chair of Conservative Friends of the Caribbean
I was born and raised in the city but still people will often ask where I am ‘really’…
An interview with Dr Kennetta Hammond Perry – Director, Stephen Lawrence Research Centre
The opportunity to shape national and international conversations around tough, complex issues such as institutional racism and social…
WATCH: Empire of Cricket the story of West Indies Cricket
Empire of Cricket looks at the story of the West Indies. and west Indian cricketing heroes have always…
WATCH: The ground-breaking work of Faith Ringgold is celebrated in an exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries, her first in a European institution.
The ground-breaking work of Faith Ringgold is celebrated in this exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries, her first in…
CARLOS ACOSTA WINS CRITICS’ CIRCLE AWARD 2018 FOR SERVICES TO THE ARTS
Acosta thus becomes the third dancer to win the high distinction of the UK scene. Previously it had…
A Tribute to Andrea Levy, by Sir Lenny Henry
I wanted it to go on forever. That’s the thing about Andrea Levy’s work – when you’re dug…
WATCH: Windrush Pioneer: Dame Jocelyn Barrow
Well I was brought up with great confidence. I was brought up to feel that nobody could prevent…
De Montfort University – Leading the way in Diversity and Equality
Last year DMU became the first higher education institution in the UK to have the prestigious Race Equality…
Black Cultural Archives, Who Are We?
The power of an archives is how it relates to our identity and community, and how we understand…
WATCH: Amazing Grace: Why Aretha Franklin movie lay hidden for 50 years
An unseen 1972 movie of Aretha Franklin recording the most successful gospel album to date was shelved and…
Charlie Williams – The first Black British comedian to experience mainstream success
Charles Adolphus Williams MBE (23 December 1927 – 2 September 2006) was an English professional footballer who was…
“We didn’t win the war for people like you to come here and take our homes and jobs.”
I was aware that I had a right to be here and an entitlement to exist. Now, I…
Margaret Busby: Doyenne of Black British Publishing
Born in Accra, Ghana to parents with roots in Barbados, Trinidad and Dominica, she became Britain’s youngest and…
Monument At Waterloo!
“On 22 June 2019, Theresa May, Britain’s acting Prime Minister, announced that London Waterloo Station had “been confirmed…
