Commemorations

Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'0ojlziGTTUtXPEAjaEWkRA',sig:'W_fGq2hsHNOHLT-s3-r1Av8spzY_zmr5AozLOmlbtLM=',w:'696px',h:'505px',items:'102731026',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});//embed-cdn.gettyimages.com/widgets.js The Minister for Crime and Policing, Kit Malthouse, yesterday (1 July) told the House of Commons that...

The Remembering Olive Collective announces five £500 Olive Morris Memorial Awards for 2021 The annual remembrance of community leader and activist Olive Morris, whose birthday...

From a seniors’ lunch in Brixton Market to an opera premiere on YouTube, local Windrush Day celebrations honoured the huge contribution made to British...

A new Windrush Anthem commissioned by Lambeth council from the Brixton-based Pegasus Opera Company will premiere on 22 June – Windrush Day. Events leading up...

Professor Godfrey Boyle, a pioneer of renewable energy and a local resident, has been honoured by the naming of a bench in Ruskin Park...

Brixton charity Re:Sole, Brixton Village and Adidas will mark Stephen Lawrence Day tomorrow (22 April) with the launch of a new cultural programme and...

The Cherry Groce memorial pavilion on Brixton’s Windrush Square is due to be officially opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Sunday 25 April at...

81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance, set up to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Brixton Uprising of 1981 with a community-led cultural programme, today...

The Cherry Groce memorial is due to be delivered to Windrush Square in Brixton from 9am on Wednesday (March 17). Lambeth council and The Cherry Groce...

To mark the 40th anniversary of the New Cross Fire and the Black People’s Day of Action which followed it, a commemoration march is...

Writer Anna Blasiak will discuss the life and times of Holocaust survivor Lili Stern-Pohlmann in an online event on Monday (25 January) at 7pm...

Sixty-six years ago today a Black woman was top of the Christmas pops in the UK. Winifred Atwell’s Let’s Have Another Party went to No...

A new permanent Brixton mural paying homage to UK hip-hop artist Ty, who passed away in May due to complications related to Covid-19, was revealed today...

Lambeth council is to underwrite more than £80,000 of the cost of the Cherry Groce memorial in Brixton's Windrush Square. A council report says the...

Brixton activist Olive Morris – a member of the Windrush Generation – is the subject of today’s (26 June) Google Doodle – the small...

We have videos of Brixton events connected to Windrush Day … ITV made a short film of people in Brixton talking about Windrush Day and...