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…
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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…
Celebrating UK Reggae Runnings Tinged With Sadness And Disappointment
Celebrating UK Reggae Runnings Tinged With Sadness And Disappointment Today is International Reggae Day (IRD). It’s a global…
AJAMU: ARCHIVAL SENSORIA
Drawing on Ajamu’s personal archive, collected over the artist’s 30-year career, as well as previously unexhibited contact sheets,…
Zoom This Monday Into London’s Wonderful And Varied Representations Of Africans And History
History consultant Kwaku presents a fun, inclusive, interactive, family-friendly journey of discovery of African history and representations across…
Soho Theatre Celebrates Re-opening With The Premiere Of The Verity Bargate Award Winning Play Shedding A Skin
Soho Theatre’s Verity Bargate Award winning play Shedding A Skin written by Amanda Wilkin has been chosen to…
AJAMU: ARCHIVAL SENSORIA – 20 May – 11 July 2021
A solo exhibition of new and archival works that spotlight Black Queer legacies in Britain by photographer, artist-scholar,…
COMING HOME: Jem Wharton – Portrait of a Liverpool boxing legend on display Liverpool 18th May – 4 July
James ‘Jem’ Wharton was one of the most successful boxers in Britain in the first half of the…
Rising Star: Charles Entsie talks about his debut play No Strings Attached at the King’s Head Theatre
Charles is an actor and writer from Wood Green, London. His first play, No Strings Attached, is being…
BTWSC/African Histories Revisited Highlights The British African Presence On London History Day 2021
Community organisation BTWSC/African Histories Revisited is once again supporting Historic England’s London History Day with a screening of…
EXHIBITION: Portrait of Black Britain
Portrait of Black Britain is a major public exhibition at Manchester Arndale that will profile a range of Black…
Books, Violence and Resistance – Eric Huntley
Black bookshops in 1970/80s Britain were few and far between. Those that did exist were subject to continued…
WATCH: Lemn Sissay MBE launches the Brighton Festival 2021 programme as guest director, with the theme of ‘care’.
The acclaimed British and Ethiopian poet, playwright and broadcaster, Lemn Sissay MBE has launched the Brighton Festival 2021 programme as…
Portraits for the Future: A Celebration of James Barnor
Ahead of a major survey exhibition, opening May 2021, Serpentine announces Portraits for the Future, a unique virtual…
Latest Event: The Challenge of Educating for a Future Britain
In this public event, Prof Gus John explores possibilities of a socially and racially just education in future…
WATCH: Queer. Black. British. Tracing LGBTQ+ Histories
Screening of the film and discussion: Beyond ‘There’s Always a Black Issue, Dear’ When the film, Beyond ‘There’s…
Anti-racism in Britain: Histories and Trajectories
Concepts of ‘race’ and racism are central to British history. They have shaped, and been shaped by, British…
Activism: Women and Black Power in the UK
The University of Westminster welcomes Leila Hassan Howe, a leading light in the British Black power movement of…
VIRTUAL Black History Children Workshop: Bernie Grant
Make History come to life with these Sankofa Sunday ‘Black Power: Great Black Leaders & Liberators’ children workshops…
Legendary African-Americans in London 1860s-1960s
Illustrated talk on some of the most famous, and least known, African-Americans who strolled London’s streets and fought…
