Unique tour of the 200 year old waterway from an African/Caribbean perspective showing the secrets and lies of London’s industrial past.
Explore quiet backwaters, hidden streets and busy highways while filling in the blanks on the banks of a long neglected watery history.
We will cover:
- Uncredited Black inventors that changed the world
- Railways, rivers and Black British Civil Rights
- Black deaths in white police custody, UFFC to BLM, Hackney to Tottenham
- Armed white working class revolution in the UK, the Jamaican connection
- Black teachers and academic excellence
- Luxuries and classic British culture
- Ancient Greek authors who were not Greek at all
- Gentrification, kerb crawling, raving and prosecutions
- British sewage in the Caribbean
- Black History Walks Volume 1 from Jacaranda books
Other coming events from Black History Walks
- The Price of Memory. Reparations plus Q&A with Chrystal Rose
- Black history Bus tour/ Steam train trip/River cruise
- Frantz Fanon weekender
- Remembering Joy Gardner: Black Lives Matter 1993
- Black Women and Film Exhibition
- Graphic Novels: Publishing, Black History and movies
- Mayfair, Hackney, Notting Hill, Southbank, Trafalgar Square, Regents Canal and Soho walks
- I fought the law and I won, a Black judge of 60 years of Equality legislation
- Champion Black Boxers and businessmen in 1800s London:
- Black British Boxing history
Sign petition to save African Odysseys and Black film history at BFI Southbank HERE
- About African OdysseysThe volunteer-run, African Odysseys film programme screened monthly, popular, anti-racist, Black history films with Q&A’s for 17 years at the BFI. It regularly filled the Southbank 450 seater at 2pm on Saturdays when cinemas are typically ‘dead’.The British Film Institute ignored a 18,400 strong petition to keep it HERE .Refused to answer 8 simple questions. Then cancelled the programme so they could ‘cut costs and promote diversity’ HEREOther coming events ww.blackhistorywalks.co.uk HERE