Black History Month has been celebrated every October in the UK for over 35 years...
...It has developed and grown and is a wonderful vehicle for educating and broadening knowledge. EVERYTHING we do in life, the clothes we wear, food we eat, architecture, medicine and of course – the big one – the music we hear everyday have been brought about, influenced, changed and channelled by the development and history of black people within our society.
Nelson Mandela "Our march to freedom is irreversible"
President Barack Obama
Mandela led the struggle to replace the apartheid regime of South Africa with a multi-racial democracy. He was imprisoned for 27 years and went on to become his country's first black president
The Presidency of Barack Obama began on January 20, 2009 when he became the 44th President of the United States. . Obama became the first African-American president of the United States.
WRITERS
BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2010
Olaudah Equiano was arguably the most important anti-slavery campaigner in the history of the United Kingdom. In 1789, Equiano published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. This detailed his life from his kidnapping into slavery at the age of 11 in Africa to his final freedom.
Black people have lived in Britain for centuries - although their circumstances have varied greatly. Some have been enslaved and exploited, while others have enjoyed privilege and status. Trace their story to discover more about the attitudes and conditions they encountered.
Joan Armatrading
Poet and novelist Ben Okri
One of Britain's female artists who has stood the test of time with songs like Love And Affection, Willow, Drop The Pilot and Lovers Speak. Joan's strong rhythmic acoustic guitar playing and her melodic electric solos help to make her the consummate musician. Female guitarist, female songwriter, female singer.
Born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968. Much of his early fiction explores the political violence that he witnessed at first hand during the civil war in Nigeria. He left the country when a grant from the Nigerian government enabled him to read Comparative Literature at Essex University in England.
The Black Arts Movement
The history of Black Theatre
Fostering - the basics
Are you considering permanent (or long-term) fostering? Perhaps you are ready to take the first step and contact an agency, or maybe you just want to find out a bit
The Black Arts Movement or BAM is the artistic branch of the Black Power movement. It was started in Harlem by writer and activist Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoy Jones). Time Magazine describes the Black Arts Movement as the "single most controversial moment in the history of African-American literature-- possibly in American literature as a whole." The Black Arts Repertory Theatre is a key institution of the Black Arts Movement
Black performance in Britain has a long history, dating back hundreds of years. Henry VIII employed a 'black trumpet' who appears in the painted roll of the Westminster Tournament of 1511
