ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 It is an honour for us to announce Prof.@DavidOlusoga as a patron of The Black Curriculum!
Author of ‘Black and British: A Forgotten History', David Olusoga will be working with us to meet our aim of making the teaching of Black British history mandatory in the UK
Today is an EXTREMELY important day, we’re celebrating one year of MY HAIR being out in the world! Thank you so much to every parent, teacher and child that has read MY HAIR, I love you and thank you for giving @AFatimaharan and I’s story a space in your hearts🥰💛✨
Today we’re launching a three-month consultative exercise on City landmarks with historic links to slavery and racism in all its forms. Have your say on statues, street names, plaques and other landmarks in the Square Mile and on City Corporation sites.
https://t.co/r34ZTghWOm
This beautiful book is written by Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad and explores the feelings of pride and love in relation to wearing the hijab. @PenguinUKBooks
Each episode of @NetflixFamily's Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices features a children’s book about the Black experience written by a Black author & read aloud by a Black celebrity. We can't wait to see @Lupita_Nyongo read #Sulwe on 9/1! #BookmarksNetflix@strongblacklead
What is white privilege?
We asked @JohnAmaechi, psychologist, best-selling author and former NBA basketball player to explain it for us.
👉 https://t.co/t7LIENTnPn
@SimGuruLyndsay I hope to see you hire and pay @Xmiramira to work on these skin tones. Her Melanin pack is legendary and has provided for Black simmers when EA did not.
Big weekend for us. Please please please check out Angry Birds 2 this weekend and get there early to see our short film #HairLove before the main feature. The better we do the longer we stay in theaters. Let us know what you think.
We have AMAZING news
•We have received donations totalling £25000 for our commitment to diverse & ground-breaking publishing.
•We have selected our 20 Black British writers for #Twentyin2020
We are thrilled & grateful!!
Read it here @GuardianBooks https://t.co/bFEp3n8exM
Are there enough diverse characters in children’s books?🤔 I took part in this podcast last week, love to hear your thoughts. Listen to Children's books: why literature for the future is stuck in the past by Southbank Centre: Think Aloud #np on #SoundCloud https://t.co/ciWQ3dMnZO
Have a safe & happy break whether you celebrate Xmas/Kwanzaa or nothing at all. Being a book retailer in this day & age is hard, especially with the likes of Amazon & other big chains under cutting RRP, however our goal is & has always been to be more than a book shop #Year53 #❤️
When @NichollsSelma’s 3-year-old daughter turned to her one day and said “I don’t want to be brown anymore”, she knew she had to create something she could see herself in - and this is the amazing result. 👏🏿❤️