Black Out, White In. Science fiction in Brazil
Sat 27 February 2 to 5pm plus Q and A BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road SE1Tube: Waterloo more info and Book HERE Admission £6.50 best to book early Part of Black History Walks African Science Fiction & Fantasy season. Come and see why this inventive sci-fi docudrama was showered with awards and critical acclaim. Part of African […]
Price of Memory. Reparations
Sat 30 January 2 to 5pm BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road SE1Tube: Waterloo More info and to book click HERE Admission £6.50 best to book early It’s 2002 and Queen Elizabeth II visits Jamaica for her Golden Jubilee Celebrations. A group of Rastafari petition the Queen to demand slavery reparations. For many, reparations is linked […]
Films. All 2014
All events in this time period are currently archived but will be re-entered shortly. Some of those events can be seen here
Talks from Black History Walks
Black History Walks delivers talks, all year long. See our next public event HEREWe have over 40 interactive, short to long, multi-media presentations which can be presented to assemblies, universities, community or staff groups. The presentations cover National Curriculum items like World War 1 and 2, Black British Civil Rights and Science and Invention. In […]
The Gentrification of Brixton and other Black areas
Recent media articles have complained of London being ‘sold off to foreigners’ It is certainly true that parts of London have drastically changed in appearance in recent years but what impact has there been on the African-Caribbean community ? Black History Walks have hosted a number of educational events on the Windrush generation, civil rights and housing in Brixton/Notting Hill, Peckham but some of our venues no longer exist due to gentrification.
Senior Lecturer Charmaine Brown will give an illustrated talk on the regeneration of Peckham and its impact on the African-Caribbean commmunity.Her talk will cover:
What is gentrification ? Positives and negatives
Peckham’s history: Rural farms, upper class ghetto, urban warzone
Black British Civil Rights in South London
Black Empowerment via Wealth Creation: ‘Box hand’ and ‘Sou Sou’
How African-Caribbean people regenerated Peckham/Brixton/Notting Hill before “Regeneration”
Depopulation, Repopulation and racist shops
The Purge: White Saviours and the Black Help(less)
Queen Nzingha Lecture 16. America’s Racial Past and Future in The Help and The Purge by Dr Althea Legal-Miller. The widespread appeal of Hollywood movies makes this particular medium a crucial site for examining the meanings of race in the United States. Popular films have the power to reconstruct the racial past of a nation, as well as envision its future. This presentation will provide readings on The Help (dir, Tate Taylor, 2011) and The Purge (dir, James DeMonaco, 2013) in order to examine both the racial and gender discourse that is embedded in these representations of two key social contexts – the 1960s civil rights era and the post-civil rights not-too-distant future. Analysis will highlight the ways in which these narratives draw on the preexisting cinematic racial order of white saviours and
X Men: Black History Movie Breakdown
In this Xtra special movie breakdown we analyse 4 X Men movies from a Black History perspective. X Men, X Men 2, X Men 3:The Last Stand and X Men First Class . We will delve deep into the background of the X men comics and movies. We will cover: Race and metaphorMalcolm X and […]
Call of Duty: Black History Breakdown
Computer games are making more money than some movies nowadays (C.O.D sales have topped $10 Billion so far, the Avengers movie made $1.5 billion) Producers and actors are increasingly selling stories to millions of eager consumers using this format but what sort of stories are being told ? We already know that film is an […]
Captain America, Winter Soldier: Movie Breakdown
Captain America 2 broke box office records and introduced us to a new Black superhero. However this movie owes a great deal to some shocking African-American history. Like blockbusters such as Captain Phillips, where factual history is turned on its head ( the reason Somalis began hijacking European/US ships was due to such ships dumping […]
Fibroids: What Sisters need to know
Queen Nzingha Lecture 28. Fibroids. Women of African descent suffer far more from fibroids than white women but mainstream agencies have failed to highlight information on this topic.
Fibroids are more common in Black women than white women with Black women being more likely to develop multiple, larger and more aggressive fibroids. With this in mind it is important that black women are empowered with accurate reliable information about fibroids including prevention and treatment options.
In this lecture Abi Begho, founder of The Lake Foundation, will provide an overview of fibroids discussing what fibroids are, symptoms, risk factors and prevention.
Speakers:
Abi Begho is the Founder of The Lake Foundation a charity that