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Black History Month

October 2023

  • Floella Benjamin

    ‘She campaigned tirelessly’: Guardian readers nominate Black Britons worthy of a postage stamp

  • A composite image of two of Jon Daniels' designs, featuring John R Archer and Mary Seacole

    Jon Daniel and the black Britons who should be on a postage stamp

  • You can tell us your nomination using the form below.

    Tell us which black British figures you’d like to see on a postage stamp

  • BHM stamp TRAIL

    They have all earned Britain’s thanks: 20 Black heroes who should be on a postage stamp

    Bernardine Evaristo, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Doc Brown and others
  • Half of Britons can’t name a Black British historical figure, survey finds

  • Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph
    Black History Month with DJ Target and Henrie Kwushue – Pop Culture with Chanté Joseph

  • ‘Libraries are the heart of community’: children’s laureate Joseph Coelho on inspiring the next generation of writers

  • From the agencies
    Pointe Black: the London ballet school breaking racial barriers – in pictures

  • Kerry James Marshall donates portrait of Henry Louis Gates Jr to Cambridge University

  • Overlooked black actor may have been most prolific in early British cinema

  • Windrush generation in East Staffordshire to be honoured by council

September 2023

  • Descendants of the Windrush generation enjoy a Caribbean tea dance at Tilbury port as they celebrate the 75th anniversary of the arrival HMT Empire Windrush on 22 June 2023.

    Black History Month to celebrate women and UK’s Windrush generation

    Hundreds of events lined up for October, with focus on role black women have played in shaping British history
  • Akyaaba Addai-Sebo, photographed at home in south London, September 2023

    Black lives
    Akyaaba Addai-Sebo: the shocking conversation that led him to start UK Black History Month

    In the mid-1980s he invited Angela Davis, Winnie Mandela, Jesse Jackson and Ray Charles to talk to communities across the country. Thus began an enormous, ongoing, consciousness-changing event
  • Ruby Williams

    Children in Britain are being denied an education because of their natural hair. This World Afro Day, let’s change that

    Ruby Williams
    I fought my school for the right to wear the hair I was born with. Now I work as an ambassador for change, says BSc student Ruby Williams

October 2022

  • Nesrine Malik

    Yes, Sunak at No 10 is a ‘win’ – in exposing the emptiness of elite diversity rhetoric

    Nesrine Malik
  • American slaves on a South Carolina plantation

    A word about institutional racism in Britain

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    The panel
    What one change would you make to achieve black equality in Britain? Our panel writes

  • Marcus Ryder

    Black History Month
    Rishi Sunak will be PM, but don’t get too excited: trickle-down diversity doesn’t work

    Marcus Ryder
  • Across Generations: a Black History Month exhibition – in pictures

  • Forgotten Voices review – steely defiance in apartheid-era South Africa

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