Jun 2021
ArtULTRA Residency at The Hari: Meet Emmanuel Unaji
“It’s like being in your own Wonderland, projected into your own world of creativity and given time to explore new ideas.”
Jun 2021
Windrush Day 2021: A Landmark in the History of Modern Britain
Enticed by the prospect of job opportunities and prosperity, Caribbean men and women crossed the Atlantic to tackle Britain’s unemployment crisis
Jun 2021
Google for Startups: Black Founders Fund Africa
African founded startups find it difficult to secure financial support, are faced with insufficient starting capital, and a lack of angel investors
Jun 2021
Justice Delayed: Fourth Anniversary of the Grenfell Tower Fire
“We hear more damning evidence every week at the public inquiry. Yet four years on, the government is as determined as ever to avoid taking any meaningful action”
May 2021
100 Year Anniversary: The Massacre of Black Wall Street
May 30 marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Riots, an act of domestic terrorism – ‘the single worst incident of racial violence in American history’
May 2021
Funding News: June 2021
Grant funding opportunities to support ethnic minority and marginalised communities across the UK
May 2021
AFRICA DAY 2021 – Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa we want
“Part of having an Africa Day celebration is to change the narrative -A growing economy, growing population, incredible thinkers and innovators”
May 2021
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2021
Open to all, it is the leading international competition, and celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography
May 2021
Introducing ‘The Other Black Girl’ by Zakiya Dalila Harris
This electric debut about the tension that unfurls when two young Black women meet against the starkly white backdrop of book publishing
May 2021
Power and Promise: London Re-Elects Sadiq Khan as Mayor
Khan’s manifesto reflects on a tumultuous five years, from Brexit to political instability, tragedies, terrorism and the pandemic
May 2021
The Black Fund: Applications are Now Open
The Give Back programme will create grants of up to £5,000 to fund programmes that empower Black people and stand up against racism
May 2021
100 poets of African descent featured on new Pan-African digital platform
The SIV offers a fully interactive experience, a space to promote equality and diversity – an antidote to negative portrayals of Black art, culture and history