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Learn about the Black History Walks experience on our YouTube channel. We regularly post videos of talks by eminent experts and academics on important Black history topics.

You’ll find our popular Queen Nzingha lectures here, which are presented by African Caribbean female academics and experts in their fields. Previous topics include “The Impact of Hip Hop on White Masculinities” and “White Saviours”. We carefully select content that will educate, inspire and encourage debate.

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Information and over 300 videos on Black British and international history which features a black (African) perspective. Each clip has a brief description and sometimes a website where more info can be obtained. New videos added monthly. More information on the website.

Walks, Talks and Films on the African History of London

UK premiere Saturday 2pm 21st June @PhoenixCinemaTrust

«Reclaiming Cocoa» is an independent documentary project on the cocoa value chain between Ghana and Switzerland. Its teaser was awarded “Best Documentary Short” at the 2022 Royal Cocoa International Film Festival in Lagos, Nigeria. UK premiere

In Ghana, cocoa is more than a crop – it’s the backbone of rural communities, the livelihood of millions, and a national treasure. Yet for over a century, the value of Ghana’s cocoa has been diverted up North, locked in a system shaped by colonial history and sustained by global inequities. "Reclaiming Cocoa" peels back the layers of this complex industry, taking viewers on a journey from the lush cocoa farms of Ghana to the polished chocolate shelves in Switzerland – whose famous chocolate consists mostly of Ghanaian beans.
The story then turns to the past, tracing the surprising origins of Ghana's cocoa industry in the 19th century to Swiss missionaries. Besides preaching the gospel, the missionaries laid the cornerstones for a value chain that still shapes the industry today. From the mission’s archives in Basel to Ghana’s first cocoa farm planted by national hero Tetteh Quarshie, the documentary challenges historical narratives and explores a forgotten connection between the two countries.

Providing possible solutions, the film portrays five inspiring Ghanaian start-ups who are charting a new path forward. Jeanne Donkoh, founder of Bioko Treats, started producing chocolate on her kitchen table and is now selling high-end products. Nana Aduna II, the founder of Ohene Cocoa, uses his farm as a platform to educate tourists on the history of cocoa. Tutuwa Ahwoi, founder of Nokware Skincare, is turning cocoa butter into cosmetics, using her grandmother's wisdom and formulas. Koa, a Swiss-Ghanaian start-up, is finding value in what was once considered waste – the cocoa pulp. Lastly, the film highlights Yayra Glover, an organic cocoa pioneer who built an alternative livelihood system for his farmers.

These Ghanaian changemakers demonstrate that value addition can and should happen at home. "Reclaiming Cocoa" is a story of resilience, resistance, and hope. As it travels through the past, present, and future of Ghana’s cocoa industry, the film poses a powerful question: What if the real value of cocoa stayed in Ghana, to nourish the land and empower the people who grow it?

Crew: A Collaborative Vision Across Continents

"Reclaiming Cocoa" is brought to life by an international team of storytellers, each bringing their unique perspectives and skills to the project. Produced and directed by Swiss investigative journalist Philippe Stalder, the film represents a deep dive into the complex world of cocoa production. Philippe’s commitment to investigate this unique value chain was matched by his partnership with Ghanaian Director of Photography Nana Yaw Asiedu Appenteng and his assistant Benjamin Addo, who ensured that the film captured the vivid, lived realities of cocoa farmers on the ground.

Behind the scenes, Sabrina Rücker, a Berlin-based editor, pieced together hours of footage, crafting a seamless narrative that interweaves historical context, investigative journalism, and personal stories. The film’s voice is carried by Allysa Martinez, a Filipino-Mexican narrator whose sober, captivating tones guide viewers through the complexities of Ghana’s cocoa industry. Interspersed throughout the film are moments of poetic reflection, brought to life by Adelle A’asante, a UK-based Ghanaian griot, whose spoken word bars add a layer of lyrical depth, grounding the documentary in the oral traditions of West African storytelling.

The film reveals the bitter human realities that hide behind the sweetness of almost every bar: In a poignant look at family life, we meet the Narteys, a multigenerational farming family whose children work the fields instead of going to school. As a Swiss chocolate giant boasts ethical practices, we go undercover to expose a system rife with exploitation and deception. Middlemen confess to mislabelling beans and manipulating scales, unveiling deep cracks in the traceability and sustainability promised by the industry.

Reclaiming Cocoa Trailer

A look into the Black historical accuracy of Steve McQueen’s Blitz film. In this event, we analyze the movie scene by scene, separating fact from Hollywood fiction. Discover the real stories behind the blitz bombings and learn how McQueen’s portrayal compares to the actual events and real African Caribbean people who were present in Britain before and during World war 2. Acclaimed author of 25 books on Black British history, Stephen Bourne is the speaker www.stephenbourne.co.uk
Produced by www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

Coming events from www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

Save 17 years of Black Film History at BFI Southbank

Black History bus tour

Black History river cruise

Fighting the slave-master walk

Black Theatreland walk

Hackney walk

Harlem in Mayfair

Black History Helicopter tour

Steve McQueen's Blitz Movie History Breakdown

After the events of June 16th, Mamelodi township schoolboy-hawker Solomon Mahlangu joins the military wing of the ANC to fight against the brutal oppression of the Apartheid regime, and he ends up becoming an icon of South Africa's liberation. This was shown as part of the African Odysseys film programme at BFI Southbank

Kalushi Trailer Netflix South Africa

As featured by Democracy now, story of journalist Gary Webb and how he exposed the US government dumping drugs into Black communities. His book Dark Alliance was made into a film starring Jeremy Renner (Avengers). The film is titled 'Kill the Messenger' . See also Operation Jackpot, Hackney London 1980s

Kill the Messenger Resurrects Gary Webb, Journalist Maligned for Exposing CIA Ties to Crack Trade

AMAR The State of Black Education in Britain A Power Analysis for Equity and Change Report

The State of Black Education – a power analysis for equity and change report , developed by the Black Equity Organisation (BEO) and funded by Mission 44, investigates the persistent challenges and systemic inequities facing Black pupils, parents, teachers, and communities within the UK education system. Through an in-depth analysis, including focus groups and survey data, the report illuminates how power dynamics within schools disadvantage Black communities, limiting their influence, access to resources, and representation. Drawing on the lived experiences of Black pupils, parents, and educators, the report exposes the ways in which the education system perpetuates socio-economic disparities and undermines Black communities' empowerment within educational settings.

Agenda:

Presentation of research findings with key highlights.
Panel Discussion: Featuring educators, policymakers, and activists discussing the report's implications and solutions.
Panel Q&A with diverse representation.
Discussion of recommendations and policy reforms.

Speakers
Timi Okuwa, CEO, BEO
Dr Lesley Nelson-Addy, Education Manager, Runnymede
Anita Acquaah and Chibuzor Amadi (BEO)
Amar Adatia , NextGen Advocate (Yr 11 Student)
Joan Deslandes OBE, (Headteacher, Kingsford Community School)

Panelists
Joshua Oladimeji, Deputy Head, Co-Founder of Supplementary School
Sabrina Simpson, Solicitor, Coram Children's Legal Centre
Frances Akinde – SEND and inclusion advisor, and founder of BAMEed SEND
Joan Deslandes OBE, Headteacher, Kingsford Community School

Read the report - https://blackequityorg.com/black-educ...

Teenage boy breaks down British school racism in 5 minutes

Explanation and showcase of new online resource to explore African/Caribbean history in London sourced from rare historical documents.

Black History walks presents online workshop with the Mapping Black London digital project plus Q&A.

The project recentres and recovers the presence of people of colour across the city’s long history. Although Britain’s multiracial heritage is often seen as a post-war phenomenon, its capital has attracted people of African descent since at least Roman times. Mapping Black London offers new insights into this rich past, producing interactive maps, dynamic digital exhibits, curriculum material, and other educational content that allows users to encounter and discover the varied contributions made by Black people to the development of London.

https://mappingblacklondon.org/

This session shows a walk-through of how to use the site and demonstration of resources and research methods plus a Q&A session.

Other coming events from Black History Walks www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

Black History helicopter tour
African Superheroes day
James Baldwin Season at BFI Southbank
John Pilger season
Theatreland Black History walk
Black history bus tour
The Amazing True Story of John Henry Smythe
Black Women Resistance Leaders
Black history bus tour
How to teach GCSE Black history in schools

Mapping Black London Demonstration and discussion 20 Nov 2024

The Mission

Enter the handler. Ronnie Kasrils’s half-century of activism on behalf of racial equality and socialism is well known in his native South Africa, if far less so outside of it. Born to Jewish parents, Kasrils became radicalized in 1960 by the Sharpeville Massacre, in which at least sixty-nine unarmed black people were gunned down (mostly in the back) by the South African police. Their crime? Peacefully protesting the hated “pass laws,” one of apartheid’s primary enforcement tools.

After the massacre, Kasrils joined the South African Communist Party and helped found Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation, or MK), the underground, armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) headed up by Nelson Mandela. Kasrils participated in MK’s first actions in 1961 and helped lead its efforts in Natal province.

As Kasrils told me, despite being ten thousand kilometers from South Africa, London was “so dynamically connected with Johannesburg and South Africa” that it seemed much “closer” than ANC offices in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Lusaka, Zambia. London became “home” to South African exiles (black, Indian, and white), was the headquarters of British finance and mining corporations that invested in South Africa, and served as South Africa’s major transportation link to the world, via ship and plane.

To raise global awareness about the horrors of apartheid and increase pressure on the white minority regime, in the late 1960s Kasrils recruited and trained English and other young white radicals (from Europe and four, including Danny Schechter, from the United States). Usually in teams of two, they flew to South Africa, pretended to be tourists sympathetic to apartheid, and undertook missions to remind black South Africans that despite their suffering and the nearly complete destruction of opposition inside South Africa, they did not stand alone. The missions included everything from bold public actions proclaiming support for the ANC to transporting weapons for freedom fighters to helping those fighters sneak into the country.

The London Recruits’ mission was not insignificant. Kasrils provides the context inside South Africa: “Post [19]63–64 or so, the Rivonia Trial [that condemned Mandela and seven other activists to life in prison], the arrest of leaders (Mandela and company), the roundup of thousands, people in the prisons and in exile, the underground apparatus in the country absolutely smashed.” The ferocity of the repression resulted in what historians now refer to as the “quiet decade,” when many thought all opposition had been smashed.

In the 1960s, like today, some white people hated the growing diversity of England — specifically black people from Britain’s former colonies in the Caribbean. Tory MP Enoch Powell delivered a notorious diatribe in 1968, now known as the “Rivers of Blood” speech. Powell lambasted England’s immigrant black people, fearing they would take over the country.

Tom remembers his first meetings with Kasrils, who possessed great charisma and that particular South African accent of English. Using his own MK training and experience in constructing, planting, and detonating explosives as well as carrying out propaganda incidents, Kasrils taught the Bell brothers how to build a bomb in a five-gallon bucket, designed not to injure anyone but to spread ANC leaflets in public places in South Africa, as well as how to rig a cassette player to spread messages via loudspeaker.

Their mission was extremely dangerous. Kasrils reminded the brothers, “If you’re caught, you’re on your own and it won’t be good.” (Indeed, though the Bell brothers’ mission went without a hitch, in 1972 several recruits were captured and suffered in a South African prison for much of the decade.)

The Bell brothers returned to London where they continued their work in the British anti-apartheid movement. Peter Hain, a South African exile, became the public face of the movement, leading a successful effort to get the South African cricket and rugby teams banned from Britain. Kasrils and others in the ANC operated more clandestinely, as one of the major nerve centers for global organizing against apartheid that grew in the 1970s and exploded in the 1980s, with multiracial democracy finally emerging in 1994.

The London Recruits also were committed to this goal. The filmmakers at Barefoot Rascals, a Welsh company, are currently at work on a documentary on the subject, having interviewed most of the surviving London Recruits and undertaken several trips to South Africa to interview activists and witnesses to the recruits’ efforts. Their story deserves a wide audience.

Peter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University. He is the author of Wobblies on the Waterfront and Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area.

London Recruits 2024 Trailer

Black History Walks has over 20 years’ experience managing film exhibitions and talks. The African Odysseys film programme at the British Film Institute is the only one of its kind in Europe. No other cinema offers a monthly showing of Black films plus a Q&A session. The films are always eductaional and anti racist. The programme has proven hugely successful over the last 17 years and has created an impressive archive of general history, film history and recorded Q&As with directors, actors and producers.

You can see some of our recorded post film Q&As on our Youtube page here.

The African Odysseys programme is now under threat as inexplicably the BFI management wants to make redundant the person who co-founded the programme AND delete the post responsible for the 48 weeks of work it requires to produce AO. Please sign the petition to keep it at change,org look for BFI or African Odysseys

African Odysseys trailer 2

Short video about the amazing Flight Lieutenant John Henry Smythe and his life during and after World War Two. Watch out for our Black History Helicopter Tours in his honour, see below or www.blackhistoywalks.co.uk

Black History walks… in the sky! Become a ‘skywalker’ as we fly over London’s famous sites and show the detailed African/Caribbean connections but this time from the air.

This special airborne event celebrates the online release of our animated film about the incredible true story of RAF Flight Lieutenant John Henry Smythe; a World War Two hero, prisoner-of-war-survivor, Windrush passenger, lawyer and Attorney General of Sierra Leone. The short film links to the Pearson GCSE History book which features our Notting Hill black history walk.

Our 'chopper' will zip over Hyde Park, Tower Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, Millennium dome and several other famous sites, while exposing and detailing the obvious and hidden Black history in the streets, buildings, railways and waterways.

This airborne tour will combine elements of our sixteen walking tours, bus tours, river cruise, canal cruise and Black History Run. We will also reference the GCSE History Migration exam textbook now used by 10,000 pupils in 140 schools, as well as, Black History Walks Volume 1 now available on Audible.

Other coming events from Black history walks:

Black History canal cruise
Black History bus tour
Theatreland Black history walk
James Baldwin, a retrospective at BFI Southbank
John Pilger film season at BFI Southbank
Black British Civil Rights, Hackney and GCSE
Banned Black Films ,17 years of African Odysseys
Lewisham Schools and Black child conference
The Little Mermaid's Real Black History and the books to prove it
What was James Baldwin doing in Hackney??
African Superheroes Day
Fighting the Slave-master walk
How Black people won World War 2
www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

The Incredible true story of Flight Lieutenant John Henry Smythe

Article by Nadine White in the Independent 26 August 2024

An equality and diversity officer who successfully sued her university employer for discrimination has criticised the sector’s failures to tackle racism in an exclusive interview with The Independent.

Nina Rahel, 59, who worked at the University of the Arts London, was forced out of her job of nine years after she pointed out the organisation’s failure to deal with racism complaints or support Black and Asian students, an employment tribunal ruled in July.

Shortly after raising these concerns and flagging other issues within the university, Ms Rahel was informed that she was losing her job in a restructuring that yielded additional roles but had no room for her.
Speaking out for the first time since a tribunal found she was victimised and unfairly dismissed, the professional described her claim against her ex-employers as a necessary but taxing “David versus Goliath” battle.

“I had no choice but to lodge a claim,” Ms Rahel, who is of south Asian heritage and lives in London, told The Independent.

“It was so awful what they did, and it was the fact that it happened within the diversity team, too.

“I was outraged at being treated so poorly and it didn't make any sense. At the time, I felt like a very lone voice and as though I was losing my mind.

“It seemed to be so outrageous that you can have a restructure of the diversity team, and increase the number of staff yet there’s no room for me, despite my years of experience.”
Following global Black Lives Matter demonstrations in 2020, Ms Rahel started to raise concerns about the university’s lack of appropriate response, including an inadequate anti-racism strategy and insufficient support for students.

In August 2020, Ms Rahel was asked to complete a planning, review and appraisal form which was used to provide employee feedback on issues of wellbeing, achievements, challenges plus more, which would be uploaded to the HR system as required by the PRA policy.

In the form, Ms Rahel said the organisation was incapable of giving a correct response to accusations of racism, giving an example of them offering coaching, instead of counselling, to students and staff who experienced racism.

However, her form was not uploaded to the HR system by her managerIsabella Chan and no further discussion was had about the feedback. The tribunal heard that Ms Chan chose to “ignore” the feedback.

“The environment there was that if you speak out, you’ll be in trouble, and that has been borne out by the treatment that I received. It was so painful,” Ms Rahel explained.

In or around December 2020, Ms Rahel’s manager decided to restructure the equality and diversity team but the impact of her proposal had a direct impact on just one member of staff: Ms Rahel.

The new proposal mapped out a new role of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) manager for staff and students, which was the same band as Ms Rahel’s role, plus two more junior roles.

Ms Rahel expressed her concerns about the redundancy process to the vice-chancellor of the university in April 2021, making complaints of discrimination on the grounds of disability, age and race.

However, the process continued as normal in a move that the tribunal panel described as “a convenient way to get rid of the claimant”.
Ms Rahel says her experience is reflectre workers are disregarded and the work is not taken seriously.

“A lot of the time EDI officers are ignored, undermined, faced with a brick wall and at UAL it was a tick-box exercise,” she said.

“They don’t put enough resources in, pay enough attention, educate themselves or they aren’t held accountable for failings when it comes to all forms of discrimination.”

Following the restructuring announcement, Ms Rahel was signed off work by her GP and her boss, Ms Chan, denied her request for a reasonably adjusted assessment for the EDI manager vacancy.

Moreover, Ms Rahel was offered an interview whilst she was still on sick leave and unable to attend.

She later received a letter giving her three months’ notice of redundancy.

Despite numerous requests that the recruitment process be paused until she was well enough to interview, up until the date of her dismissal, Ms Rahel was not given the chance to interview for the EDI manager job or the other two roles.

This battle has taken a physical, emotional and mental toll, Ms Rahel said, including the loss of sight in her left eye due to type-one diabetes complications; though the professional previously managed her diabetes, the stress of her work situation exacerbated her health issues.

It affected her marriage and family life, as well as her capacity to trust future prospective employers.

“These people are meant to be committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. How can you treat somebody like this when that's your work, your field? So that hurt. It made me very angry and unstable.”

Though Ms Rahel welcomed the judgement and made her feel “

Diversity officer on suing University of Arts for discrimination

Streamed live on Aug 6, 2024 PAN-AFRICAN ATTITUDE
The UK is in crisis right now, with Black and Brown people attacked on the street, hotels housing asylum seekers set alight and attacked, Muslim women being attacked with acid and even graves of Muslims being attacked by mobs of the far-right. Oh, and we forgot to mention a small child on the streets of Belfast in the Occupied North of Ireland is heard shouting “P*kis out” “P*kis out” as she walks down the street while the mother of the child smiles.

How did this happen? How did the UK turn into a place of programs against ethnic minorities? We break this all down with legendary hip-hop rapper and journalist @lowkey.

On Pan-African Attitude episode 16. Join us live at midnight East African Time, 10 pm UK time and 5 pm New York Time.

Don't miss this one!

#uk #minority #muslims #blackpeople #europe #unitedkingdom #lowkey #irish #middlesbrough

Why are the Far Right on the Loose in the UK Pan African Attitude Ep 16

There are centuries of Black history across Britain's canal networks. This guided cruise from Camden to Kings Cross and back exposes and explores some of that history. While you gently float your boat along the quiet backwaters of this busy city we discuss:

Black scientists and inventors
Ancient African engineering
The real Bridgerton, rich Black British people of the 1800s
The Trinidad connection, canals and capitalism
African Americans and Civil Wars
Luxuries and classic British culture
Racist statues and those who defend them, the BLM connections
Caribbbean labour and the British Industrial Revolution
World War 2 and UK Nazis
Armed Black resistance against white supremacy
British sewage in the West Indies
Your underwear

Plus. During the commentary, we enjoy some 70s/80s/90s classic Soul/R&B while sipping Jamaican ginger beer and share our specially curated historical book list.

Other coming events from Black History Walks www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

How Black People Won World War 2, talk
James Baldwin blue plaque unveiling
The Little Mermaid's real Black history and the books to prove it, talk
Fighting the slavemaster : Past and Present Black History Walk
Harlem in Mayfair Black history walk
How to teach Black history at GCSE level, workshop
Theatreland Black history walk
Hackney/Secrets of Soho/Trafalgar Square Black History Walks
The Gentrification of Peckham and Black urban removal worldwide, talk
Under-writing Black history: Lloyds, Human Trafficking and Uprisings
Jacaranda Books and Black Female publishers
Black History Walks Volume 1 book signing
Black History River Cruise/Bus tour

Black History canal cruise sample (Brazil version)

Plaque unveiled at Hackney CVS on Dalston Lane, London. James Baldwin author, poet and activist is a legendary figure in literature and US Civil Rights history. He marched with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, debated at Cambridge, argued with US presidents and gave incredible speeches. He spent a great deal of time in London and often lent his status to support local anti-racist campaigners.

The 18th May 1953, is when Baldwins first book 'Go Tell it on the Mountain' was published. That book launched his stellar career where he produced classics like the Fire Next Time, If Beale Street could Talk and Notes of a Native Son etc.

In July 1985, Baldwin visited the CLR James library in Hackney. Hackney council had declared 1985 a Year of Anti-Racism. The library had been re-named after the Pan-Africanist historian and author of the revolutionary 'Black Jacobins', CLR James, due to intense activism by local anti-racist groups.

In the early 1980s the Hackney Ethnic Minorities Library Consultative Committee had picketed offices, occupied the Town Hall, lobbied, campaigned and successfully got the libraries to stock Black history books and remove racist literature.

On the Friday 17th May 10am 2024 we unveiled a Nubian Jak Blue Plaque to recognise Baldwin's presence and the link to Black British Civil rights.

In the weeks preceding and following the unveiling there will be a number of walks, talks, films and workshops about local anti-racist groups of the 1980s as well as reviews of James Baldwin's speeches and books.

Look out for a fantastic season of events and an exhibition about the HCDA (Hackney Community Defence Association) and their incredible story of fighting police brutality and corruption. See Hackney Library website for details or Instagram.

We Remember HCDA Exhibition was at Hackney Archives on April 4th but will return in the future.

Also look out for events celebrating Adiaha Antigha the amazing Hackney activist who set up Hackney Community Voluntary Service in 1995

This unveiling was brought to you in collaboration with: Black History Walks, Hackney CVS, Hackney Libraries , Jacaranda Books, Hackney Archives, Nubian Jak, WaywivWordz and Penguin RandomHouse.

For more on Black British Civil Rights see our book, 'Black History Walks in London Vol 1' available from Jacaranda Books

This plaque is produced by Nubian Jak and sponsored by Black History Walks.

Correcting the lack of historical blue plaques to Black people

Blue Plaques are associated with English Heritage but according to their own research only 4% of their 900 London plaques represent Black and Asian people, the percentage of Black people in London is 40% https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/a... In 2016 they set up an initiative to find evidence for more diverse plaques. B.A.S.A, the Black and Asian Studies Association has been submitting names and lobbying for more Black people on plaques since the 1990s.

Out of 900 English Heritage plaques in London, only 18 are about Black people or just 2%. Their blue plaque scheme goes back to 1866. English Heritage is a body that was set up in 1983. Their budget is around £180 million.

The Nubian Jak charity has unveiled 95 plaques and two statues honouring African/Caribbean people. They were established in 2006 and do not have even 1% of the English Heritage budget.

Black History Walks other coming events www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

Black History Bus tour
Black History River cruise
Fighting the Slave-master walk
Regents Canal walk and cruise
Harlem in Mayfair walk
Trafalgar Square walk
The Little Mermaid's real Black history and the books to prove it
African Superheroes Day
How to rip off Black historians

James Baldwin Nubian Jak blue plaque unveiling (1 minute version)

See London's African/Caribbean history from 1000 feet up as we hover over London landmarks and connect the hidden Black history dots

Black History walks… in the sky! Become a ‘skywalker’ as we fly over London’s famous sites and show the detailed African/Caribbean connections but this time from the air.

This special airborne event celebrates the online release of our animated film about the incredible true story of RAF Flight Lieutenant John Henry Smythe; a World War Two hero, prisoner-of-war-survivor, Windrush passenger, lawyer and Attorney General of Sierra Leone. The short film links to the Pearson GCSE History book which features our Notting Hill black history walk.

Our 'chopper' will zip over Hyde Park, Tower Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, Houses of Parliament and several other famous sites, while exposing and detailing the obvious and hidden Black history in the streets, buildings, railways and waterways.

This airborne tour will combine elements of our sixteen walking tours, bus tours, river cruise, canal cruise and Black History Run. We will also reference the GCSE History Migration exam textbook now used by 10,000 pupils in 140 schools, as well as, Black History Walks Volume 1 from Jacaranda Books now available on Audible.

The trip departs from an airfield one hour from central London. Exact meet point sent on booking. www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

Other coming events from Black history walks:

Black History canal cruise
Black History bus tour
Theatreland Black history walk
James Baldwin, a retrospective at BFI Southbank
John Pilger film season at BFI Southbank
Black British Civil Rights, Hackney and GCSE
Banned Black Films ,17 years of African Odysseys
Lambeth Schools and Black child conference
The Little Mermaid's Real Black History and the books to prove it
What was James Baldwin doing in Hackney??
African Superheroes Day
How Black people won World War 2
www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

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The audience and the panellists had some incredibly positive feedback about your presentation. It went down so well and was a brilliant combination of information, revelation and humour. There were also a number of attendees whose firms or companies had organised a Black History Walk with yourself and also had nothing but positive feedback

I just wanted to let you know that the students REALLY enjoyed the tour yesterday. I polled them in class and everyone overwhelmingly had positive things to say. They particularly enjoyed how you incorporated modern day information into the tour. They said it was extremely informative and made it seem all really relevant. And today it was great listening to them as they walked around central London, noticing some of the things you'd pointed out. So, your work was very well received. Well done and thank you!

What an amazing tour! It completely moved me to rethink the intricate web of social, economic and political relations that characterize British imperial rule and racial politics. Engaging, moving, will keep you asking more questions. The best way to get to know London.

We are studying Migrants in Britain with Edexcel, and to participate in a workshop/talk from one of the authors of the Pearson textbook was a fantastic learning opportunity for our students. His insight and in-depth knowledge of Notting Hill combined with his well-pitched and flexible delivery meant our students were fully engaged for three full hours, which is some feat! They loved the many jokes and links to their own music tastes, and I am confident that they will retain more knowledge for the final exam thanks to his input. I have rebooked for next year.

Thank you for organizing a wonderful walking tour for my students. You are incredibly knowledgeable, and it was such a joy to hear your take on things. The students loved this field trip. You did an excellent job relating the history, culture, and social contributions of Black and Afro-Caribbean people in a fun and lively way while still emphasizing the seriousness and importance of this often overlooked aspect of British life. I could not have asked for a better supplement to my Sociology course on race, identity, and culture. I really appreciate you helping make the class so special and look forward to arranging another.

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