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As part of our Sharing Journeys campaign for #BHMUK22 we examine the highly influential Caribbean Arts Movement (CAM) of the 1960s and 1970s

Black History Month UK 2022 'Sharing Journeys' campaign - exploring the lives of Britons with Caribbean heritage

#BHMUK22 Sharing Journeys campaign - learn how the West Africa Student Union (WASU) campaigned for the end of colonial rule in West Africa

Black History Month UK 2022 'Sharing Journeys' campaign - exploring the lives of Britons with West African heritage - Lapido Solanke

Badenoch joined the Conservative party in 2005 and spent several years trying to get elected to Parliament

Our book recommendations for Black History Month UK 2022

Black History Month UK 2022 'Sharing Journeys' campaign - exploring the lives of Britons with West African heritage Quobna Ottobah...

Louise "Miss Lou" was a famed poet, folklorist, and the first Black student to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1945. On...

IBHM-UK launches theme for Black History Month UK 2022 - Supporting Journeys - and all the ways to celebrate it in October.

Sir W. Arthur Lewis is one of the pioneers of Development Economics and was of the first proponents of reparations to the Caribbean and...

Black History Month UK 2021 'Black to the Past' campaign - African and African-Caribbean Victorians in Britain - Sarah Bonetta Forbes Davis

Black History Month UK 2021 'Black to the Past' campaign - African and African-Caribbean Georgians in Britain - William Davidson

Black History Month UK 2022 'Black to the past' campaign - John Blanke

Una Marson was one of Jamacia's most influential feminist thinkers. She was a poet, playwright, editor, activist and broadcaster.

Olive Morris is widely recognised as a prominent voice of leadership in the fight against discrimination in Britain during the 1970s.

As part of our 'Black to the Past' campaign for Black History Month UK 2021 we explore the lives of African Romans in Britain.

As part of our #BHMUK21 Black to the Past campaign we explore the underreported anti-slave lecturing circuit in northwest England

As part of Black History Month UK 2021 'Black to the Past' we reveal the African origin of Roman York's rich Ivory Bangle Lady.

Stormzy has announced he’s the latest celebrity to be immortalised in London’s Madame Tussauds. The UK rapper, who was celebrated his...

Channel 4 commissions brand-new comedy pilot, Big Age, written by Bolu Babalola for Channel 4s Black to Front day