60 years of Black History Success (1/20)

After many meetings, protests and much lobbying, the first ever law against racial discrimination was passed in 1965. Subsequent laws in 1968,1976,2000 and 2010 have given us a legal framework for race equality that many take for granted but the 'Windrush' generation had to fight for.

In this series of 20 talks we review three different organisations each session to emphasise the success stories and achievements which mainstream media suppresses or ignores. For our very first session we will hear speakers from:

The 100 Black Men of London: Now in its 25th year the health, mentoring, finance and education charity started off with Brothers pulling their pockets and giving up their time to mentor the youth. Presently raising funds to buy their own building they have had a huge impact in numerous areas but starved of the appropropriate level of publicity. www.100bmol.org.uk

Nubian Jak Community Trust: Now in its 18th year the charity has put up 121 historical blue plaques across the nation including to a 1600 year old African saint , two pioneering statues influenced stamps and government departments. They've had to deal with publishers ripping off their work and severe under-funding but carry on regardless. www.nubianjak.org

Raising Black Achievement does what it says on the tin and is run by a teacher who managed to teach his Year 8 group to teach themselves GCSEs and they all passed . Since then he's knocked out two books and every year for 20 years produces the most beautiful Black history fact calendars with images alien to the mainstream. www.raisingblackachievement.com

Each body will talk about their success for half an hour before Q&A

This event is organised by the Black Curriculum and Black History Walks as part of 60 years since the 1965 Race Relations Act. Each session will be filmed and made into an archive of 60 years of community achievements.

The Black Curriculum empowers young people and educators across the UK to engage with Black British history 365 days a year. Black Curriculum is dedicated to empowering young people across all age groups through a variety of creative, and academic programmes. one of their core youth programmes are Springboard, National Ambassador Scheme and the Young Champions. www.theblackcurriculum.com

Black History Walks runs walks, talks, films ,river cruises,bus tours, on the Black history in London's streets. They have authored two books including a GCSE HIstory exam text book,based on their Notting Hill walk which is presently used by 15,000 pupils. They are presently involved in a campaign to save 17 years of Black film history at the British Film Institute Southbank which has over 17,000 petitioners www.blackhistorywalks.co.uk

Other Coming events

• Black History Bus Tour
• Black History Steam Train trip
• Afro Futurism, Spirituality and the Black Image
• Fighting the Slavemaster, past and present
• Secrets of Soho Black history walk
• World Wars and Black Soldiers. African Odysseys @BFI
• Top 20 Black Francophone films
• How France gets rich and makes Africa poor, the CFA