Black Heritage Today UK

Young people are been encouraged to actively participate in politics, thereby creating better lives for themselves and their communities. This assertion was made recently by the director of Operation Black Vote’s  director Simon Woolley, who advised the new intakes of those on the Parliamentary Shadow Scheme to be reliable, level headed  politicians and not puffed [...]

Recent headlines in the UK showed some people being convicted of trafficking child ‘slaves’ into the UK. It is merely the tip of the iceberg. However, an international agency is working hard to protect vulnerable children who may fall victim to this cruel, modern-day form of slavery. Mention slavery and most people think about the [...]

The story of Joseph Phillippe Lemercier Laroche – the only man of African descent to perish in the disaster – was only revealed thanks to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, host to the largest Titanic exhibit

Yes, we can! It has often been wistfully and passionately said that the ‘black’ communities need to mobilise, organise and create their own economic structure. But few people know that such a structure existed and thrived during the 20th Century.