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Google Doodle celebrates musician and songwriter Lizzie Emeh, who was a champion for people with learning disabilities in the UK.

The Black British Book Festival (BBBF) has appointed Booker Prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo and pioneering publisher, editor and writer Margaret Busby as Patrons. The appointments mark an important milestone for BBBF as it expands beyond its flagship annual festival into a year-round organisation. Its work creates opportunities for Black writers, develops new generations of readers, improves access to Black-authored books and builds platforms for Black literature

For more than 250 years, Black writers, publishers, journalists and activists have shaped Britain's literary and media landscape. Yet the history of Black publishing is about more than individual success stories. It is also the story of communities building their own platforms, presses, newspapers, magazines, bookshops and cultural institutions when mainstream publishing failed to provide space for their voices. From abolitionist pamphlets and pioneering autobiographies to di

IBHM-UK launches their theme for Black History Month UK 2026 - Breaking Barriers to Publishing Futures - and all the ways to celebrate it in October.