Saluting a Pioneer Voice: Olive Morris
Battersea has a proud radical history with a legacy of progressive political, racial, and social justice leaders. From…
Opinion
Solidarity in the struggle: Black and Brown women in the 1970s
In the 1970s, Black and Brown women both faced oppression at the intersections of their race and gender…
International Reggae Day UK Starts Plans For IRD @ 30
International Reggae Day UK Starts Plans For IRD @ 30 With International Reggae Day (IRD) having recently ended…
Celebrating The Power of a Woman – Acknowledge your achievements
With enthusiasm, I embarked on my psychology degree as a mature student. At 27 I was one of…
The Campaign for LGBTQIA Rights continues….
Let me start by sharing what LGBTQIA stands for. The letters are used to describe a powerful community…
TAOBQ Request English Heritage Change The Erroneous Wording On Claudia Jones Plaque
An imminent Claudia Jones blue plaque has recently been the subject of a news item on BBC Radio…
Time for Change – Action not words
Black History Month is a great time to engage in adventures in learning and for adventures in physical…
What does it mean to be black in the 21st century?
Hundreds of years of pain, suffering and heritage limited to just 28 short days of the year all…
Commonwealth Games 2022 – A review of the opening ceremony in Birmingham
The Commonwealth Games 2022 took place across 15 venues in the West Midlands, with the track cycling at…
Your silence will not protect you – Audre Lorde
Our journey has led us to explore a range of definitions and this book contains a selection of…
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…
It’s not just Black history
By the time I was 10 years old, I had been to the International Slavery Museum multiple times,…
Black privilege
When I search on the internet it says, my brothas not getting killed and sistas not getting raped…
Taking a stand
Many Universities have had listening exercises and deep reflection on how they can use these conversations to take…
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…
Child Q and that dirty word ‘black’
Do the same old social, financial, political, criminal issues arise whenever that dirty word ‘black’ is in the…
The National Windrush Monument – A personal reflection by Catherine Ross
As a member of the Windrush Generation it meant a lot to me to be at the unveiling…
English rugby is getting less white, but not much less posh
Bleary-eyed English rugby fans crowed into pubs around Twickenham last Saturday to watch England v Wales, one of the…
