Tag: black cultural archives
Reparations Rebellion event returns to Brixton’s roads and Windrush Square
The Afrikan Reparations Rebellion event will again take place in Brixton’s Windrush Square this year.
The “Groundings Space” in the square on Sunday 1 August...
In Brixton, Unity is Still Strength
Defend Yourself, an online exhibition by Brixton’s Black Cultural Archives, looks at the work of the Brixton Defence Campaign after the 1981 Brixton Uprising. Europe...
Black Cultural Archives quits government body over race report
The Black Cultural Archives (BCA), based in Brixton’s Windrush Square, has quit a government working party on the Windrush scandal over the report of...
Black Cultural Archives chair on leave of absence after sexual misconduct...
Ansel Wong, recently appointed chair of the board of trustees Brixton’s Black Cultural Archives, has taken voluntary leave of absence as the result of...
First Black women in the boardroom initiative
A scholarship programme to increase the number of Black women in top roles in British companies and society opens today (1 March).
Lambeth equality commissioner...
‘If Black Lives Matter to you, donate blood’
South Londoner Brenda Smith has donated blood for sickle cell patients for more than half of her life. For her 40th donation, she hopes...
New chair for Black Cultural Archives
Ansel Wong CBE, a political activist, cultural historian and community leader, is the new chair of the board of trustees of Brixton’s Black Cultural...
Townscape Heritage Initiative – The Black Cultural Archives
The Black Cultural Archives – A home for Black British History, the only national heritage centre dedicated to collecting, preserving, and celebrating the histories...
Hondo tenants to supply Black Cultural Archives
Two restaurants and four retailers for Brixton’s covered markets will bring the number of active tenants to a record 126, Hondo Enterprises, which runs...
Black Cultural Archives join new government Windrush group
Brixton’s Black Cultural Archives (BCA) has accepted a government invitation to join a new Windrush cross-government working group.
Home Secretary Priti Patel launched the group...
Fundraising campaign to raise Windrush anchor for monument
Windrush activist Patrick Vernon OBE has launched a fundraising drive to further the campaign to raise the anchor of the Empire Windrush. It would...
Great Black Britons competition
Brixton’s Black Cultural Archives are backing a national competition launched by the 100 Great Black Britons campaign and supported by Britain’s biggest teachers’ organisation,...
The Poets Corner continues during lockdown
South London’s only weekly poetry event The Poets Corner, an evening of spoken word, is usually in the heart of Brixton every Wednesday. The...
Need to talk? The CommUnion goes online
Poetic Unity, a Brixton based charity founded in 2015 by Ryan J. Matthews-Robinson, better known as Ragz-CV have been looking at how they can...
Charity launches “Quarantine Poems”
Brixton based charity Poetic Unity have been working on services they can provide virtually during lockdown, one of these projects is Quarantine Poems.
"In these...
Big demand for Windrush compensation scheme
The strong response to a letter from Lambeth council urging residents to claim under the Windrush Compensation Scheme meant supplies of a special form...