Cardiff’s Betty Campbell’s Cross
I will begin with a subject that is very personal to me. In the statue’s depiction, Betty wears…
Black History Features
It’s not just Black history
By the time I was 10 years old, I had been to the International Slavery Museum multiple times,…
WANTED: Effective Allies Who Take Meaningful Actions
I don’t want you to just dress like me, but to call out behaviours that hurt, harm, and…
Scratchylus Resetting The Mindset Healing a Fractured Society In These Very Challenging Times
We caught up with Scratchylus to talk about this year’s theme for Black History Month 2022; ‘Time For…
My angry black voice
What is speaking black? Speaking black is making sure that when you’re speaking facts you gotta stay on…
Black men and prostate cancer: what you need to know
Here, Prostate Cancer UK Specialist Nurse Susan Piper answers some common questions about the disease. What is…
The Windrush experience expressed in music – from 1948 to 2022
Among the very first Caribbeans to arrive in Britain aboard the SS Empire Windrush was Aldwyn Roberts, a…
198 Contemporary Arts & Learning – a unique space in London, and so much more than a Black art gallery in Brixton
Steeped in radical history spanning over 50 years, Brixton’s Railton Road is home to 198 Contemporary Arts &…
Civil Rights Movement in Britain…a poverty of knowledge?
But as an immediate thought does Civil Rights conjure images of Britain’s own Civil Rights movement to you?…
London Museum returns stolen treasures to Nigeria-about time
These tokens imply an individual or an organisation is ‘woke’. They are aware of issues like unconscious bias…
WATCH: Black Man Listen, the biography of JR Ralph Casimir: a video reading
This reading from “Black Man Listen”, the biography of JR Ralph Casimir, the pioneering Pan-Africanist, Garveyite and poet…
Colonel (Retd) Andy Allen MBE Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 1984 – 2015
Colonel (Retd) Andy Allen MBE Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers 1984 – 2015 As an Army Cadet, Andy…
Louise Da-Cocodia and the discrimination faced by black nurses in the infant days of the NHS
There would appear to be no obvious connection between the two, and yet, in its days of infancy,…
John ‘Johnny’ Smythe (1915-1996)
He was selected to train as a navigator, due to his high scores on mathematics tests. Assigned as…
First World War Service and Sacrifice; Gershom Browne, (1898-2000)
Born in British Guiana (now Guyana), Gershom lived in rural Bagotsville, he was officially too young to enlist…
Kemi Badenoch, the woman of Nigerian descent who wants to be Prime Minister
“I have the conviction, the courage, and the clarity of thought to deliver that change,” she wrote on…
George Lamming (1927 – 2022) … Tribute
When we lose one of our greatest writers, we are thrown into mourning but when a publisher loses…
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…
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…
