Real Reads
Oct 2020
#BHM Black Victorian: The story of Queen Victoria’s Nigerian protégé
By revealing a name and a past that preceded Britishness, she affirmed her African identity
Oct 2020
#BHM Madam Yoko: Heroine of the people or colonial traitor?
Sierra Leone’s first woman diplomat: Yoko expanded the Mende Kingdom, becoming ruler of the vast Confederacy
Oct 2020
#BHM The Seat of Wangu wa Makeri
Makeri was a Kikuyu tribal chief, known as the ‘Colonial Headman and Iron Lady’
Oct 2020
Twenties: Lena Waithe’s semi-autobiographical series finds its UK home on BBC iPlayer
‘You kind of get a pass, for some reason, if there’s a two in front of your age’
Oct 2020
How Black Working-Class Youth are Criminalised and Excluded in the English School System
The IRR takes a fresh look at the PRU-to-prison pipeline phenomenon in London
Oct 2020
Celebrating London’s Black History
Many Black pioneers have been commemorated with English Heritage blue plaques across London
Oct 2020
Otegha Uwagba on Carving a Meaningful Path
Writer and speaker Otegha Uwagba shares the rules she’s learned in raising up her voice for issues that matter
Oct 2020
Introducing Lisa Bent’s Debut Romance Novel “Symona’s Still Single”
As Symona reflects from one Mr. to another, she reveals her sensual, hilarious and downright frustrating encounters
Oct 2020
UK-Based Black Female Photographers: New Exhibition ‘We Are Here”
‘Our work matters. I want people to not hide behind the scenes, and get as much attention as possible’
Oct 2020
#BHM ‘Amanirenas: The One-Eyed Warrior Queen’
Kandake Amanirenas was a leader; fighter, military commander and political strategist who accomplished for her people what many could not
Oct 2020
#BHM ‘American Queens of Gynaecology: Mothers of Medicine’
Black bodies hyper-sexualised, slashed, beaten and slain. In the name of Gynaecology, our women were restrained
Oct 2020
#BHM ‘Misogynoir in Medicine: Honouring Dr Rebecca Crumpler’
The first Black woman physician and the first women to author a medical textbook