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Jessica Huntley - political reformer, women's rights activist and pioneering British publisher
Black History Month UK 2022 'Sharing Journeys' campaign - exploring the lives of Britons with North and South American heritage.
Maya Bello-Taylor
Oct 17, 20226 min read
818 views
Google Doodle pays tributes to Amanda Aldridge, British opera singer and composer
Google Doodle pays tributes to Amanda Aldridge, British opera singer and composer
Vera B
Oct 17, 20221 min read
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Caribbean Artist Movement: pushed the boundaries of what was considered to be art
As part of our Sharing Journeys campaign for #BHMUK22 we examine the highly influential Caribbean Arts Movement (CAM) of the 1960s and 1970s
Maya Bello-Taylor
Oct 10, 20226 min read
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John La Rose - was a writer, publisher & political organiser who changed the lives of Black Britons
Black History Month UK 2022 'Sharing Journeys' campaign - exploring the lives of Britons with Caribbean heritage
Maya Bello-Taylor
Oct 10, 20226 min read
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Google Doodle celebrates Dr Harold Moody
Jamaican born Dr Harold Moody campaigned against racism in Edwardian Britain and provided free medical care to the poorer members of his loc
Vera B
Oct 10, 20222 min read
1,224 views
How the West African Student Union (WASU) campaigned for the end of colonial rule in West Africa
#BHMUK22 Sharing Journeys campaign - learn how the West Africa Student Union (WASU) campaigned for the end of colonial rule in West Africa
Maya Bello-Taylor
Oct 3, 20226 min read
977 views
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Lapido Solanke - was a political activist and founder of the influential WASU
Black History Month UK 2022 'Sharing Journeys' campaign - exploring the lives of Britons with West African heritage - Lapido Solanke
Maya Bello-Taylor
Oct 3, 20225 min read
943 views
Kemi Badenoch - the right-wing MP who could become the first Black leader of the Conservative party
Badenoch joined the Conservative party in 2005 and spent several years trying to get elected to Parliament
Maria
Oct 1, 20226 min read
1,204 views
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Our top reads for Black History Month UK 2022
Our book recommendations for Black History Month UK 2022
Maya Bello-Taylor
Oct 1, 20227 min read
1,591 views
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Our TV picks for Black History Month UK 2022
Our TV picks for Black History Month UK 2022 - Check out a few of our TV recommendations to help you celebrate and learn more about UK Black
Maya Bello-Taylor
Oct 1, 20224 min read
47 views
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Ottobah Cugoano - the radical Abolitionist & first African to publicly call for the end of slavery
Black History Month UK 2022 'Sharing Journeys' campaign - exploring the lives of Britons with West African heritage Quobna Ottobah...
Maya Bello-Taylor
Sep 18, 20228 min read
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Google Doodle celebrates Louise 'Miss Lou' Bennett-Coverley's 103rd birthday
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...
Vera B
Sep 9, 20222 min read
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What is the theme for Black History Month UK 2022?
IBHM-UK launches theme for Black History Month UK 2022 - Supporting Journeys - and all the ways to celebrate it in October.
Angela M
Jul 1, 20226 min read
3,257 views
Google Doodle celebrates St Lucian Economist Sir W. Arthur Lewis
Sir W. Arthur Lewis is one of the pioneers of Development Economics and was of the first proponents of reparations to the Caribbean and...
Vera B
Apr 20, 20222 min read
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Sarah Bonetta - African princess and god-daughter of Queen Victoria
Black History Month UK 2021 'Black to the Past' campaign - African and African-Caribbean Victorians in Britain - Sarah Bonetta Forbes Davis
Maya Bello-Taylor
Oct 30, 20215 min read
750 views
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William Davidson the political radical
Black History Month UK 2021 'Black to the Past' campaign - African and African-Caribbean Georgians in Britain - William Davidson
Maya Bello-Taylor
Oct 24, 20213 min read
419 views
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Our TV picks for Black History Month UK 2021
Check out a few of our TV recommendations to help you celebrate and learn more about UK Black history, culture and talent this BHMUK21.
Maya Bello-Taylor
Oct 11, 20213 min read
313 views
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John Blanke the royal trumpeter
Black History Month UK 2022 'Black to the past' campaign - John Blanke
Maya Bello-Taylor
Oct 11, 20215 min read
963 views
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Our book recommendations for Black History Month UK 2021
Our book recommendations for Black History Month UK 2021
Maya Bello-Taylor
Oct 11, 20216 min read
241 views
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Google Doodle celebrates the life of Una Marson
Una Marson was one of Jamacia's most influential feminist thinkers. She was a poet, playwright, editor, activist and broadcaster.
Vera B
Oct 10, 20212 min read
488 views
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