Got a story to share for Black History Month 2021?
This year’s Black History Month in October is more important than ever. It’s not just a month to…
Black History Features
PROUD TO BE: Black History Month UK launches theme for Black History Month 2021
Black History Month UK magazine is launching a new campaign to mark Black History Month 2021 in October….
Massive Crowds at Silverstone gives Hamilton’s Diversity Goals a boost
With over 140,000 spectators back for the British Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton’s message for diversity is being applauded…
Euro 2020: Diverse England Football Team that is Winning many new Fans.
There are millions of fans ecstatic that England’s men’s team has reached the final of a major tournament…
Whose Stories? Our Stories
The collection includes over 20,000 books by a range of writers and illustrators, alongside manuscripts and original artwork….
Joe Clough The first Black Bus Driver
As a boy, he was employed by a Scottish doctor, Dr R C White, to look after his…
Happy Windrush Day everyone!
Today, 22 June 2021 is the fourth annual National Windrush Day. That means it’s been 73 years since…
The Pioneers’ – a photo exhibition of the Windrush Generation in Bristol
They say you can capture a thousand words in a single photograph. I totally agree and that’s why…
ASKIng for more for the Windrush Generation in Croydon
Advice Support Knowledge Information (A.S.K.I.) was established in 2012 to support and signpost individuals who face barriers to…
Bringing Hull’s Caribbean stories to life
Museumand, The National Caribbean Heritage Museum, is working in partnership with Hull City Council and the Hull Caribbean…
Black Plaque installation on Windrush Day to commemorate Val McCalla the founder of The Voice newspaper
African and Caribbean community organisation Nubian Jak and creative agency Havas London have teamed up with property investment…
Royal Museums Greenwich celebrate memories of Windrush
Before 2020 I would have sat down over a cuppa and a slice of cake (I love museum…
The Front Room Exhibition at the Museum of the Home, Hackney
For the Museum of the Home, Windrush Day is less a celebration, and more of commemoration, that takes…
Windrush then and now – A day to celebrate how the Windrush Generation helped to create the Black British society we know today
Windrush Day was launched in June 2018, in the wake of the Windrush Scandal, to mark the 70th…
London’s Janet Kay was the first black female artist to have a reggae Number 1 in the UK
Janet Kay, was born Janet Kay Bogle (the first of 6 children) in London to Jamaican parents, Clifton…
Dame Donna Kinnair – Realising the hopes of the Windrush Generation
Many young women arrived in the UK from the Caribbean with a dream to be a nurse. It…
Black History is British History!
Although, you tried so hard to stop us, put all kind of obstacles in our way, yet we…
How Olive Morris Fought for Black Women’s Rights in Britain
Overlooked No More: How Olive Morris Fought for Black Women’s Rights in Britain. In the 27 years, she…
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…
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…
