Black Leaders Awareness Day | 18th July

#BlackLeadersAwarenessDay (BLAD) is an annual awareness day on 18 July to celebrate and share quotes by past, current & upcoming leaders.

[𝔻𝕣 Iyabo O '𝕐𝕒𝕫' 🧘🏾‍♀️ @DrYazO]

UK university’s axing of black studies MA has ‘dangerous parallel’ with US, says academic https://t.co/Mu0NS5e1L1

[Black History Month 2026 @bhmuk]

Kanya King CBE, founder of the @MOBOAwards, has died aged 57.

King launched the MOBO Awards in 1996 and helped create one of the UK's most important platforms for Black music and culture.

https://t.co/VkAzjCpLbJ

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

The Voice is saddened to hear of the passing of well loved RAF Veteran Gilbert Clarke, who has died, aged 100.

Campaigner and Cultural Historian @ppvernon his condolences yesterday saying:

"Today we honour and remember Gilbert Clarke, a proud World War II veteran whose courage, sacrifice, and service helped shape the freedoms we hold today."

Rest in Eternal Peace Gilbert Clarke.

Thank you for your service 🖤🖤

[AVCA @AVCA_Africa]

Every great leader carries echoes of wisdom they’ve received. To celebrate #BlackLeadersAwarenessDay, AVCA shares powerful words of advice that shaped our industry's leaders and the advice they'd leave for the next generation

View the flipbook: https://t.co/OB5RuhEcMC

@Dentons

[Black Leaders Awareness Day | 18th July @blad_org_uk]

We honour Malcolm X, a fearless voice for dignity, justice, and self-determination. May we carry his legacy: speak up, stand firm, and build community. #BlackLeadersAwarenessDay #MalcolmX #Legacy #Justice

[The African American Museum at the England Manor @AAM_EM]

📚 On This Day in Black History – May 19, 1925 📚

Today we honor the birth of Malcolm X, one of the most influential voices in the fight for Black empowerment, human rights, and self-determination in American history.

#BlackHistory365 #MalcolmX #OnThisDay #BlackHistory

[Black Leaders Awareness Day | 18th July @blad_org_uk]

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole." #MalcolmX

[Floella Benjamin @FloellaBenjamin]

My #Gnome for #ChelseaFlowerShow is decorated with blue beads and my iconic silver heart for my #Playschool Babies as it represents 50 years since I first appeared on https://t.co/SScaLoZv45 can bid for it @rhs.org.uk/chelsea-gnomes. Funds are to encourage kids to garden ❤️

[BlackHistoryStudies @BlkHistStudies]

Join us at our free screening of 'The Price of Memory' a doc film from Jamaica about slavery reparations, Queen Elizabeth II and Rastafari on Saturday 6 June 2026 at 18:00 GMT at The Black Cultural Centre Islington. Book now at https://t.co/CnibWCnuyF #jamaica #reparations

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1988, Dr. Patricia Era Bath received a patent for her Invention, the Laserphaco Probe, used in eye surgery to remove cataracts and also founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness.

She restored sight to millions of people suffering from cataracts.

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

Tumi Fola, a 23-year-old Black woman from the UK, became the first blind Black female lawyer (barrister) in the United Kingdom.
She qualified despite major challenges and is now inspiring others in similar situations.
Trailblazer. 👏🏾

[Rebeca Omordia @RebecaOmordia]

Celebrating over a decade championing African classical music and I am very grateful for the journey. Here’s a snippet of a documentary by Channels TV Nigeria at MUSON in 2016. #africanartmusic #channelstv #africanpianism

[richard adetunji @SocialRichy]

Today makes it five years since Folajimi Olubunmi-Adewole’s heroically lost his life trying to save another. We celebrate you today and everyday Jimi, continue to rest well bro! 🌹🤍

[International Space Station @Space_Station]

As part of @NASA’s @SpaceX Crew-13 mission, four crew members from three space agencies will launch no earlier than mid-September to the International Space Station for a long-duration science expedition.

NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively. They will be joined by CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov, who will serve as mission specialists. https://t.co/Qg4yFq89sb

[CaribbeanNewsNetwork @caribbeannewsuk]

#LONDON: Professor Matthew J. Smith and the UCL Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery has been awarded a $575,000 grant from a North American funder to support the development of a database of enslaved people in the British #Caribbean.

[BlackHistoryStudies @BlkHistStudies]

Today is the 26th anniversary of the death of #victoriaclimbie. Victoria died on 25 Feb 2000, aged 8, after being tortured and murdered by her guardians. Her death led to a public inquiry and produced major changes in UK child protection policies. #neverforget

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Rembering actor, filmmaker, film director and civil rights activist Sidney Poitier, on his birthday today.

In 1964, he made history, becoming the first Black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor.

[Black Leaders Awareness Day | 18th July @blad_org_uk]

Nominations must be submitted by midnight (GMT), 30 May 2026. Selected honourees will be publicly recognised during Black History Month 2026. https://t.co/vIUk7bLmRW

[Black Leaders Awareness Day | 18th July @blad_org_uk]

"Our father was a servant leader - not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world," The Jackson family.

[Caribbean Cooking @CaribCookSchool]

@BlacAwards .