Saluting Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow A Windrush Generation Trailblazer for Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Britain
Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow 15 April 1929 – 9 April 2020) left an indelible mark on British society…
Civil Rights Movement
Embodying Resilience and Vision: Honouring Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow DBE
Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow DBE (15 April 1929 – 9 April 2020) has eternally engraved her values and…
Amy Ashwood Garvey: A Trailblazing Pan-Africanist and Advocate for Black Empowerment in the Windrush Generation
On 10 January 1897, Amy Ashwood Garvey was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, and her personal journey as…
Empowering Women of Colour: The Legacy of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD)
The Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) was a pioneering feminist group that emerged in…
When Malcolm X took on British Racism
Marshall Street was an unassuming, unexceptional street in Smethwick, in the west Midlands. Its terraced houses were not…
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?…
The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963
The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 arose from the refusal of the Bristol Omnibus Company to employ black…
WATCH: Malcolm X. Oxford University Union Debate in1964
In November 1964, Malcolm X ended a tour of Africa, where he had passed through a dozen different…
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…
When England taught the Yanks how to treat their African Americans
In preparation for the largest amphibious invasion in the history of warfare on 6 June 1944, the American’s…
Claudia Jones: The Myth Buster
As we mark African History Month, expect Claudia Jones be become better known this year. She’s the subject…
The 1936 Battle of Cable Street
My birth in 1934, in the Parish of St Georges, at 61, Cable Street a ‘Cockney’ into a…
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…
Paul Stephenson – The Civil rights pioneer led a victorious boycott against a racist bus company, paving the way for Britain’s first race laws.
He had been born to a British mother and West African father in Rochford, Essex in 1937 and…
Bayard Rustin: A Gay Man in the Civil Rights Movement.
He was born and raised in Pennsylvania where his family was involved in civil rights work. In 1936,…
What was behind the Bristol bus boycott of 1963?
A spring afternoon in 1963. Eighteen-year-old Guy Bailey arrived on time for his job interview. Bailey was well…
Marching With Martin Luther King August 1963 … “I Have A Dream”
Against a backdrop of war wounds, in 1963 a divided Europe was still suffering emotionally from the devastation…
Rosa Parks – The mother of the modern day civil rights movement
Rosa Louise Parks was nationally recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America….
Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association
Proclaiming a black nationalist “Back to Africa” message, Garvey and the UNIA established 700 branches in thirty-eight states…
