CARIBBEAN TAKEAWAY TAKEOVER: STORIES & SOUNDS FROM THE WINDRUSH GENERATION
As part of Friday Late, contemporary artist EVEWRIGHT will continue to explore the ideas around alternative space and…
Black History Event Highlights
Our Lady of Kibeho opens at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, London on 25th September
In 1981 at Kibeho College in Rwanda, a young girl claimed to have seen a vision of the…
Thabiso Sekgala: Here Is Elsewhere
From 28 August to 6 October 2019, Hayward Gallery’s HENI Project Space presents Here Is Elsewhere, a free…
Windrush: Portrait of a Generation opens at Fairfield Halls, Croydon on 19th September
The stunning photo-story, which received widespread acclaim when it was first exhibited for a limited time at the…
Slavery Remembrance Lecture 2019: Tickets and Speaker Announced
National Museums Liverpool has announced that Johny Pitts will be delivering the Dorothy Kuya Slavery Remembrance Lecture, as…
New Daughters of Africa at Edinburgh International Book Festival
Margaret Busby’s historical anthology Daughters of Africa was published 27 years ago to international acclaim. Now there’s a…
QUEENS OF SHEBA
“They ask me where I am from! I say I am a mix. Of both racism and sexism…
Black Cultural Archives, Who Are We?
The power of an archives is how it relates to our identity and community, and how we understand…
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…
Death Of A Salesman Transfers To The Piccadilly Theatre
Following her recent award-winning successes on Company and Angels in America, Marianne Elliott co-directs Death of a Salesman…
WATCH: Sheku Kanneh-Mason – No Woman No Cry (Cello Version)
He previously rose to fame as the first black musician to win BBC Young Musician in 2016 and…
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…
Join the legendary SIR LENNY HENRY as he embarks on a brand new UK tour this autumn.
Titled Who Am I, Again?, the tour is set to come shortly after the publication of his memoir…
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…
CARIBBEAN TAKEAWAY TAKEOVER: IDENTITIES AND STORIES POP-UP EXHIBITION AT THE MIGRATION MUSEUM LONDON
The launch night featured inspiring speeches from the Mayor of Lambeth, Ibrahim Dogus; the Mayoress of Lewisham, Barbara…
Andrea Levy’s Epic “Small Island” Receives Standing Ovation at the National Theatre
Serena Lee reviews the latest production of “Small Island” Although we would have liked to see Hortense’ character…
Stephen Lawrence Day Commemorations
BBC Teach who create classroom resources for teachers have introduced a welcomed series of programmes for young people…
The Global Dispersion of The African People
Anyone who has had their DNA tested will have noticed groups of people carrying the same DNA in…
Music – Black Voices Lead The Way
Formed in 1987 by its Music Director Carol Pemberton MBE, Black Voices has gained a reputation as Europe’s…
Sport – A Netball Legacy from 1978, A First Generation Achievement and Renewed Hope
The families who arrived in the 1950’s and onwards were no exception. By the late 1960s many were…
