Sheffield Anti-Racist Education (SHARE)

SHARE is a group of Sheffielders working together to advance anti-racist education in our city.

[Sheffield Anti-Racist Education (SHARE) @share_sheffield]

A big thank you to the speakers, attendees, caterers and helpers at our 'Winning Alliances for Anti-Racist Education' conference. Lots of great discussions and plans for the future. Also many thanks to Sheffield NEU, Roots & Futures and Sheffield Museums Trust for their support.

[Kehinde Andrews @kehinde_andrews]

“It shows the community that they’re not valued, their academics are not valued, the effort that they put in is not valued" One of students on the axing of Black Studies at @MyBCU.
Thanks to @melissasigodo for the story
https://t.co/ZNLCU1u97t

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

The Black studies course at Birmingham City University is set to be axed leaving 5 Black staff members at risk of redundancy. Students have written to vice chancellors raising concerns that the plans appear to contradict the uni’s own DEI aims.
https://t.co/lYZwNe3ao6

[Tanita Tikaram💙 @tanita_tikaram]

The pretence that you are holding these awful people to account while continually platforming them & their hateful divisive politics makes the BBC slightly more vomit inducing than Reform . That’s quite an accomplishment.

[The Black Curriculum @CurriculumBlack]

This #MondayMotivation, we honour Akala, artist, educator, and cultural thinker whose work continues to challenge the histories we were taught to accept. 🌍

Through his writing, music, and public speaking, Akala reveals that the story of Britain cannot be separated from empire, race, and class. He reminds us that education is not neutral; it reflects power, perspective, and the stories that are too often left out.

His work pushes us to question what we’ve been taught, confront uncomfortable truths, and recognise how deeply inequality is rooted in both history and the present.

Akala’s voice urges us to see that Black history is not an add-on; it is foundational, interconnected, and essential to understanding the world around us.

His legacy is one of clarity, courage, and truth-telling; reshaping how we learn, think, and engage with history.

#TBH365 #AntiRacismInEducation #Akala #DecoloniseEducation #BlackBritishHistory #TheBlackCurriculum #EducationMatters

[Alan Lester @aljhlester]

1/2 The historically illiterate Vance and Hegseth cannot grasp that Britain has a sizeable minority of black & brown citizens not because we’ve been invaded by alien immigrants but because white Britons invaded much of South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean

https://t.co/WgbY9OO0gR

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The Caribbean island of Barbados built the most intensive sugar plantation economy in the Western Hemisphere on the bodies of enslaved Africans, achieving a death rate so catastrophically high that the island's enslaved population never once achieved natural population growth across the entire 200 year duration of British colonial slavery, requiring continuous human importation simply to prevent total labor force collapse.

Barbados became England's first significant Caribbean sugar colony in the 1640s, and the model of plantation organization developed there between 1640 and 1700 was subsequently exported with deliberate intent to Jamaica, South Carolina, and every other territory where English planters sought to establish sugar or rice cultivation. The Barbados Slave Code of 1661, the first comprehensive slave code in English colonial law, legally defined enslaved Africans as real estate rather than persons, a classification that made them inheritable property and denied them any legal standing to seek remedy for any treatment whatsoever. This code was adopted almost verbatim by South Carolina in 1696 and became the template for slave law across the American South.

The labor regime on Barbadian sugar plantations was specifically designed around the logic that it was more economically efficient to work enslaved people to death and replace them through the slave trade than to moderate labor intensity sufficiently to allow population maintenance through natural reproduction. Contemporary plantation management documents from the 17th and 18th centuries record this calculation explicitly. The average life expectancy of an enslaved person on a Barbadian sugar estate after beginning field labor was estimated by contemporary observers at seven to nine years, nearly identical to the figure recorded in Saint Domingue.

When Britain abolished slavery in 1833, Barbadian planters received compensation payments totaling 1.7 million pounds for the 83,000 enslaved people they had legally owned. The enslaved people received a mandatory apprenticeship period of unpaid labor lasting four years before any form of freedom took effect. Barbados became a republic in November 2021, removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, but no formal reparations discussion between the British government and Barbados has produced any financial commitment from London.

© Past Archives

#archaeohistories

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

Black youngsters bear the brunt of Britain’s deepening youth employment crisis new study finds

Department for Work and Pensions report reveals widening inequality as young Black Britons face the sharpest barriers to jobs and opportunity

@S_Fleary1

➡️https://t.co/EZoZbxCeZV

[The Voice Newspaper @TheVoiceNews]

📷 OUT TODAY | SPECIAL WINDRUSH EDITION for June 2026!✨✨

Britain's only Black newspaper brings you this special 48-page issue celebrating the lives, legacies and lasting contributions of the Windrush generation that helped build this nation.

This is history. #windrush78 #juneissue

📰Get your copy now: https://t.co/eqby8hpZox

[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

A new documentary revisits how Mongo Beti used literature and political writing to confront the suppressed history of French colonial violence in Cameroon https://t.co/XmY7J88oEZ

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

À 23 ans, elle guérit la lèpre. À 24 ans, elle disparaît.
Et pendant 90 ans, un homme blanc s'attribua le mérite de ses travaux.
Voici l'histoire d'Alice Augusta Ball, le génie qu'on a tenté d'effacer.
Elle grandit à Seattle au début du XXe siècle, dans une famille qui croyait au potentiel des Noirs.
Son grand-père fut l'un des premiers photographes noirs d'Amérique.
Sa mère lavait les sols pour pouvoir offrir un microscope à Alice.
Ce cadeau changea le monde.
Alice dévorait la chimie comme l'oxygène.
Elle obtint deux licences.
Elle publia des recherches alors qu'elle était encore étudiante.
Puis elle s'installa à Hawaï et devint :
📷 La première femme à obtenir une maîtrise en chimie à l'Université d'Hawaï
📷 La première femme noire à obtenir ce diplôme
📷 La première femme professeure de chimie de l'histoire de l'université
Elle avait 23 ans.
Mais pendant qu'elle enseignait, elle fut confrontée à une urgence bien plus grande que le monde universitaire :
La maladie de Hansen, la lèpre.
Un diagnostic signifiait l'exil.
Arraché à sa famille, on était déporté sur une île pour y mourir seul.
Il existait un traitement :
une huile amère et collante, peu efficace et extrêmement douloureuse.
Nombreux furent ceux qui le refusèrent. Nombreux furent ceux qui moururent.
Alice refusa de baisser les bras.
Dans son laboratoire, elle trouva la solution que personne d'autre n'avait trouvée :
Elle transforma cette huile épaisse en une forme assimilable par le corps.
Une injection révolutionnaire qui sauva enfin des vies.
Les patients commencèrent à guérir.
Des familles furent réunies.
Des personnes condamnées guérirent subitement.
Sa découverte devint la méthode Ball.
Elle changea l'histoire de la médecine avant même que la plupart des gens n'aient terminé leurs études.
Et puis… elle disparut.
À seulement 24 ans, un mystérieux accident de laboratoire lui coûta la vie.
Elle ne vit jamais le miracle qu'elle avait accompli.
Puis vint le vol.
Le président de l'université, un chimiste blanc nommé Arthur Dean, s'appropria ses recherches, en retira son nom et les rebaptisa :
« La Méthode Dean ».
Pendant des décennies…
📷 Son nom figurait dans les manuels scolaires.
📷 Son nom était encensé par les médecins.
📷 Son nom était attribué à la seule reconnaissance de ses mérites.
Son nom a failli disparaître complètement de l'histoire.
Un vol si discret que la plupart des gens ignoraient même qu'un crime avait été commis.
Il fallut 90 ans pour que la vérité éclate enfin.
Des chercheurs ont mis au jour les documents originaux d'Alice.
Son travail.
Son génie.
Ses découvertes majeures.
Les projecteurs se sont braqués sur elle. Le mensonge s'est effondré.
Et aujourd'hui, le monde le sait :
C'était la Méthode Ball – TOUJOURS.
Alice Ball a guéri une maladie qui avait ravagé des vies pendant des siècles.
Elle a libéré des familles.
Elle a sauvé des milliers de personnes de l'isolement et de la mort. Et elle a accompli tout cela en une seule année.
Imaginez ce qu'elle aurait pu faire en une vie entière.
Alice Ball méritait un prix Nobel.
Elle méritait des statues.
Elle méritait que son nom soit sur toutes les lèvres des étudiants en sciences.
Au lieu de cela, elle a été étouffée par le silence…
Jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
Nous prononçons son nom parce que l'histoire a refusé de le faire.
Nous l'honorons parce que d'autres ne l'ont pas fait.
Nous nous souvenons d'elle parce qu'elle l'a mérité.
Alice Augusta Ball (1892-1916)
La chimiste qui a changé le monde avant même d'avoir eu le temps d'y vivre.

[@populismstudies @populismstudies]

📢 ECPS Interview

🇬🇧 Dr. Aaron Winter: The UK Is Witnessing the Mainstreaming of an Overt White Supremacist and Ethno-Nationalist Discourse

✍️ Interview by Selcuk Gultasli

⚠️ In this far-reaching ECPS interview, Dr. Aaron Winter (@aaronzwinter -- Lancaster University & University of the Witwatersrand) examines how the 2026 UK elections reveal not simply electoral volatility, but the accelerating normalization of far-right discourse within British political life.

🚨 Reflecting on Reform UK’s rise, Brexit, anti-immigration politics, Islamophobia, and democratic crisis, Dr. Winter argues that Britain is witnessing “the mainstreaming of the far right” through narratives once considered politically marginal.

💬 “Politics is now increasingly conducted from the center-right through the use of ideas that originate with the far right.”

📌 Drawing on his scholarship on racism, populism, and “reactionary democracy,” Dr. Winter warns that anti-migrant politics has become a broader vehicle for:
🔹 exclusionary nationalism
🔹 white victimhood narratives
🔹 liberal racism
🔹 democratic erosion
🔹 authoritarian drift
🔹 the hollowing out of democratic alternatives

💬 “Liberal racism… has steadily shifted the political center further to the right and expanded the Overton window.”

⚡️ On Brexit and anti-immigrant politics, Dr. Winter argues: 💬 “Brexit emboldened these politics rather than satisfying them.”

🗳️ The interview explores:
🔹 Reform UK & reactionary democracy
🔹 the racialization of the “left behind”
🔹 anti-Muslim racism & securitization
🔹 English nationalism & Brexit
🔹 media normalization of far-right narratives
🔹 democratic legitimacy & capitalist crisis
🔹 Trumpism & global authoritarian trends

🚨 Dr. Winter further warns that Britain increasingly faces a broader democratic and structural crisis: 💬 “We are moving further down the road toward the mainstreaming of the far right and fascism.”

💬 “Democracy is being degraded rather than revitalized.”

🌍 Yet he also insists alternatives remain possible: 💬 “Unless politics becomes centered around radical reform, anti-racism, and opposition to inequality, things are not going to change.”

📖 An essential conversation on populism, nationalism, racism, Brexit, democracy, and the future of British politics.

📕 Read the interview: 🔗 https://t.co/l866aNo3dd

#UKPolitics #ReformUK #Brexit #Populism #FarRight #Democracy #Authoritarianism #Islamophobia #Nationalism #AntiRacism #Racism #ReactionaryDemocracy #AaronWinter #ECPS #Immigration

[Show Racism the Red Card @SRTRC_England]

Football legends praise pupils for their work to fight racism.
#ShowRacismtheRedCard
@NEUnion @NevilleSouthall
@GedGrebby https://t.co/cl9b9oGvwt

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

There is a reason for this public misconception. Primarily because the leaders of the three largest political parties and most of our media tell them it is a crisis.

Voters across all parties believe net migration is soaring despite fact it is falling
https://t.co/eTPljHbWjX

[Stand Up To Racism @AntiRacismDay]

The latest rubbish from Reform’s Matt Goodwin is the far right’s - ‘great replacement theory’ pure & simple.

‘We’ are supposedly being replaced by ‘evil outsiders’.

This kind of racism is all about dividing us in our communities & our workplaces.

Don’t fall for the con.

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

Nzinga Mbande (c. 1582-1663), also known as Ana de Sousa Nzinga, was the 17th-century queen of the Mbundu people and ruler of the kingdoms of Ndongo and Matamba-territories in present-day Angola. Having been known for her political acumen and military leadership, she led one of Africa's longest and most skillful resistances to Portuguese colonial expansion and the Atlantic slave trade.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Excellent defence of @misanharriman by @afuahirsch
"Have no doubt: the campaign to sack Misan Harriman is part of an assault on black figures in public life"
https://t.co/sueJ8Ol3nO

[Diane Abbott @HackneyAbbott]

The scurrilous campaign against Misan Harriman is still in full swing. Hounded for stating a factual truth which did not fit the media narrative. I stand with Misan.

The campaign to sack Misan Harriman is part of an assault on black figures in public life
https://t.co/ghJxR5iRNE

[Sheffield Anti-Racist Education (SHARE) @share_sheffield]

Book your place. Sheffield Anti-Racist Education conference 2026 - Winning alliances for anti-racist education - Saturday 6 June, 10am to 3.30pm Book your place on Evenbrite via https://t.co/EJcQn3DSBJ 🙂

[Shareefa Energy @ShareefaEnergy]

52 years ago in May 1974, a South Asian woman working at the Imperial Typewriters factory in Leicester was mistakenly given the pay-packet of a white colleague. She was shocked to see her white colleague was paid more. A legendary 14 week strike took place demanding equal pay