Black Heritage Today UK

From the beginning of the oldest and greatest civilization – the ancestral link from the Africans in Kamit (Ancient Egypt) to their descendants who are now scattered to the four corners of the world – the world of creating, inventing and designing has always been a part of the experience of the African diaspora.

Told through Martin Luther King’s own experiences and stories, Stride Toward Freedom, The Montgomery Story, is a classic account of the Civil Rights movement that transformed a nation. Based on that pivotal turning point in American history, where his community refused to accept the injustices of racial discrimination, King transformed the Montgomery movement into a [...]

African superstar, composer, singer, and musician, as well as mystic and political activist, Nigerian Fela Kuti, born in 1938, was controversy personified. An incredible pioneer, his rhythms and influence have been absorbed into so much of the music around today. Indeed, the musical world owes him a debt of gratitude. Fela was swept to international [...]

A book not easily put aside once one begins reading, The Slave Trade tells of how 16th-century Spanish and Portuguese explorers who went to Africa in search of gold discovered what would become an even more lucrative cargo – a population of African people, whom they set about incarcerating and turning into slaves. Although the transatlantic trade in human lives was an exceptionally cruel and brutal system, few contemporaries viewed it either as inhumane or immoral.

As gentrification encroaches on Harlem, a brilliant new voice Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts disentangles the myth and meaning of Harlem’s legacy. For a century, Harlem has been celebrated as the capital of African-America, a thriving centre of cultural achievement and political action.

A man far ahead of his time, who, writing, during the Harlem Renaissance, predicted the advent of the United States first African-American president, Langston Hughes was a man of contradiction who refused classification. He was someone you could not predict or define.