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…
Black History Event Highlights
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…
Powerful and funny show to hit stage at The Tower Theatre Folkestone in October this year.
This funny, poignant two-hander follows Ginger and her mothers’ journey as first and second generation immigrants from the…
Dressed to the nines
Elegantly dressed wearing a Christian Dior inspired skirt made by a Vincentian dressmaker. Plus, a blouse, cardigan and…
Lucy St Louis, The World’s 1st black Christine Daae in The Phantom of the Opera
She has made history as becoming the first Black performer to play the role of Christine in the…
Programme for Black History Month 2021 Leicester Announced
A multifaceted programme of exhibitions, discussions, films, workshops and performances as we return working across venues in Leicester. …
Explore Your Nursing Family History for Black History Month (Virtual Event)
Nursing often runs in families. Perhaps your grandmother or great-uncle was a nurse. But how would you go…
60 Years On: The legacy of Martin Luther King’s first London sermon
Martin Luther King preached in London for the first time on the 29th October 1961, at Bloomsbury Central…
Windrush Generation Legacy Association (WGLA) exhibition – “Gaan a Farin”
Black History Month, a time to reflect upon the contributions that people of colour have made within their…
The Changing Face of Nursing: Black Nurses in Surrey Hospitals by Dr Catherine Babikian
From its launch, the National Health Service relied on the labour of thousands of nurses, doctors, and health…
An interview with Emmanuel Bajiiji
Part of: Push Festival 2021 , Candy FlossEmmanuel Bajiiji, creator of Candy Floss, part of Push 2021, talks to Black History…
Windrush Celebration of Black Heroes and Legacies during Black History Month 2021
We wish to improve the social, health and well-being of our beneficiaries. Our activities impact education, self-knowledge, motivation,…
Bob Marley statue to be unveiled in Liverpool
Positive Vibration Festival have announced that they have commissioned a 7ft tall statue of cultural icon, Bob Marley….
Transatlantic Black Rights Activism / Labour Movement Pamphlets
The Summer Scholars season explores the broad and exciting range of research being conducted in the Americas collections…
Does #BlackLivesMatter Still Matter To The UK Music Industry?
Does #BlackLivesMatter Still Matter To The UK Music Industry? In this third and final instalment, BBM/BMC/RE:IMI’s Kwaku opines…
British Black Music Still Finding Its Feet?
It’s July, and we are in the middle of British Black Music Month (BBMM), an annual June-July window…
Happy Windrush Day everyone!
Today, 22 June 2021 is the fourth annual National Windrush Day. That means it’s been 73 years since…
WATCH: The Windrush Hour Project by State of Trust
I came across this wonderful initiative called State of Trust, a charitable project set up State of Emergency,…
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…
AJAMU: ARCHIVAL SENSORIA
Drawing on Ajamu’s personal archive, collected over the artist’s 30-year career, as well as previously unexhibited contact sheets,…
