London’s Tube map has been powerfully recreated to honour hundreds of people who helped shape black history in Britain.
The 272 station names have been replaced by notable black figures from pre-Tudor times to the present day.
https://t.co/8ctEBxa35l
Don't miss The Black Artisans exhibition at the William Morris Gallery this weekend. Also touring Waltham Forest this October:
Chingford Library - 5 to 18 Oct * Leyton Library - 19 to 31 Oct
Central London and Midlands dates tbc
@LBWFculture Image @FranOnumah by @josealyphoto
Trans black voices matter.
Queer black voices matter.
Straight black voices matter.
Young black voices matter.
Old black voices matter.
ALL black voices matter.
#RegisterToVote to aid the fight against hate and make your voice count.
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#NoVoteNoVoice
‘Maybe if I was a completely different colour and my son had blue eyes I would have been taken seriously.’
Evidence Joel is one of many who feel they have been failed by the police after she reported her son, Richard Okorogheye, missing.
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A former employee of Britain’s equality watchdog has accused it of failing to support the human rights of ethnic minorities and colluding in the denial of structural and institutional racism https://t.co/v2PD33DYPZ
first tweet with an illustration i did for my instagram! feel like this is very simplified and i could add a lot more to this, but hope to update at a later date
A great article on #Tooting brothers Troy and Jarrell, and how they took @JuiciJerk from a small van-based Caribbean cuisine business to a national distribution network – and all during the pandemic. Story via @myldn: https://t.co/XN5zD5d3BO
Do y’all understand the significance and brilliance of this?!?
If you’re a millennial/80’s/90’s baby, imagine your younger self seeing this level of representation!
It’s beautiful 👨🏿👩🏾 #TheBigBreakfast
Coming September 30th — a celebratory 20th anniversary re-issue of this landmark collection. In a new introduction, editors @courttianewland & @kadijattug reflect on the two decades since original publication —
And you know what?
This isn't 25% of the Black British talent in this country. Not even close.
If production companies and commissioners opened up opportunities to old and new talent they could have had a #BlackToFront on all five of the terrestrial channels today.
This initiative is nice 100% but it’s really making me a bit sad lol. It’s just dawned on me how much black talent has seriously been held back from their greatness cos white people in UK dont want to put them on tv 😭 #blacktofront
My goodness Channel 4 news tonight has been incredibly powerful. I don’t even know where to start. What a powerful and emotive hour!
#Channel4#BlackToFront