Mckenzie Heritage

23/03/2020

Brilliant teacher RIP

19/03/2020

Smile-ing Boys Project – in pictures

Smile 👦🏾😊👌🏾

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2020/mar/18/portraits-black-teenagers-south-london-mental-health?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Kay Rufai’s portraits of smiling black boys from south London came out of an initiative that investigated the lack of mental health provisions for black teenagers

17/03/2020

Staying at home?

A great time to sort out the family photo archive. Get your younger household to help. Share family stories. Identify ancestors. Share the love.

Just discovered this one... Self portrait of me with my maternal grandmother many moons ago 😍

#family #familyarchiving #familyheritage #heritage #photograph #lifestory #storytelling

10/03/2020

Portraits of UK black female professors – in pictures

Portraits of UK black female professors – in pictures.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/gallery/2020/mar/09/portraits-of-uk-black-female-professors-in-pictures

Phenomenal Women is said to be the first photographic exhibition honouring Britain’s black female professors

08/03/2020

The British Journal of Photography

The British Journal of Photography

“I was branded a ‘slut’, an ‘attention-seeker’, and a ‘Middle Eastern hero’”: Rasha Kahil reclaims the rights to her body in the face of internet trolling.

British Journal of Photography revisits some of the most piercing, provocative and innovative projects from women photographers of the last decade. Download your free copy today.

06/03/2020

South London Gallery

Today we opened a new #Archive display showing some of artist, lecturer and archivist Rita Keegan’s personal papers.

It offers a rare opportunity to see a range of materials and ephemera from the Black British Art scene spanning the 1980s–2000s.

More: bit.ly/RKAP_SLG

06/03/2020

Black British Bulletin

History that is accurate, inclusive and anti-racist should be taught 24/7

Should black history be taught all year round? - BBC News

06/03/2020

The Supremes Singer Barbara Martin Dies At 76

The Supremes Singer Barbara Martin Dead At 76

https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/barbara-martin-dead-the-supremes_n_5e62182bc5b601904ea89b1e?ri18n=true&guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvL1hOSFdvdXBiNVM_YW1wPTE&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKdYeaJCSnl3K7UwKoZW-qU-KsJ69OVzpLWG-bGSLsSCpwqjly7V71cWDIYGqrIySWMaLBYqV2My0wMnrPzvJjAzvLWuv6mZCeYt7a8Z8zvvvwCv4Kx8cBTuQBvVspgQgT5oanf8_c9KmEn3791SJ6Tnj8q5a8feO90xDmXUaMYN#click=https://t.co/XNHWoupb5S

She was part of the Motown group from 1960-62, replacing original member Betty McGlown.

29/02/2020

The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s. It Just Surfaced

The Last Slave Ship Survivor Gave an Interview in the 1930s. It Just Surfaced

Zora Neale Hurston’s searing book about the final survivor of the transatlantic slave trade, Cudjo Lewis, is being published nearly a century after it was written.

25/02/2020

NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Dies At 101

https://www.essence.com/news/katherine-johnson-dies-101-hidden-figures/

NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson became known for verifying the results given by computers to calculate the orbit for John Glenn’s Friendship 7 mission.

24/02/2020

Masculinities: Liberation through Photography

Masculinities: Liberation Through Photography exhibition

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UYB62YrxXrQ

Toxic, fragile, soft, hyper? What is masculinity? Through the medium of film and photography, this major exhibition considers how masculinity has been coded,...

23/02/2020

An Evening with Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress

Dr. Carla Hayden, the first woman and first person of color to be appointed Librarian of Congress, shares her admiration for Octavia in a discussion at the Huttington

https://www.huntington.org/verso/2020/02/evening-carla-hayden-librarian-congress

In The Huntington's Centennial Celebration series called "Why It Matters," Huntington President Karen R. Lawrence speaks with national leaders

22/02/2020

Meet Ofentse: SA's 1st black woman to conduct and own an orchestra

Meet Ofentse: SA's 1st black woman to conduct and own an orchestra

Read more: https://briefly.co.za/43409-meet-ofentse-sas-1st-black-woman-conduct-orchestra.html?fbclid=IwAR1_pFrwQNy5q5znRXx_QtqTJ1rlA2r6adCzZsn-CZJJsQb0vcJREqhKhtI
https://briefly.co.za/43409-meet-ofentse-sas-1st-black-woman-conduct-orchestra.html?fbclid=IwAR1_pFrwQNy5q5znRXx_QtqTJ1rlA2r6adCzZsn-CZJJsQb0vcJREqhKhtI

An inspirational young black South African woman is the conductor and owner of the 1st all-black orchestra in the world. Ofentse Pitse has achieved the amazing feat without a formal musical qualification.

20/02/2020

Unparalleled Genius!

14/02/2020

Migration Museum | The story of movement into and out of the UK

Lewisham’s Migration Museum opens

https://www.migrationmuseum.org.

The story of movement into and out of the UK

11/02/2020

Well done Borough of Lewisham👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
#IAmLewisham

11/02/2020

Black Images, Black Histories | Richard J. Powell: The Obama Portraits

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OcO3yWF79kw

The From Slavery to Freedom Lab presented a two-day conference to explore iconic images and popular constructions of blackness in culture. Richard J. Powell ...

27/01/2020

Director of Arts job with BRITISH COUNCIL | Guardian Jobs

https://jobs.theguardian.com/job/7019309/director-of-arts/?utm_source=eml&utm_medium=emaq&utm_campaign=MK_JO_Newsletter270120canvas&utm_term=Email_270120_UK%202&utm_content=variantA

Join us to lead and shape a global Arts portfolio in an organisation that is internationally recognised as a leader in cultural relations.

19/01/2020

Black Comic Book Festival Celebrates Art Of Sci-Fi, Fantasy And Storytelling

Black Comic Book Festival Celebrates Art Of Sci-Fi, Fantasy And Storytelling at the #SchomburgCenter

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/01/17/black-comic-book-festival-schomburg-center-harlem/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

The Black Comic Book Festival features more than 40 vendors and a dozen panels that focus on fantasy, sci-fi, and graphic novels.

17/01/2020

Equiano – An Extraordinary Life – Jan 2020 | Olaudah Equiano

Equiano – An Extraordinary Life – Jan 2020

An exhibition celebrating Equiano’s amazing life (1745-1797) and his best-selling book ‘The Interesting Narrative’, one of the ‘best non-fiction books of all times’. (The Guardian)

LEWISHAM CIVIC SUITE
CATFORD ROAD, CATFORD
LONDON SE6 4RX

https://equiano.uk/news-events/equiano-an-extraordinary-life-jan-2020/?utm_source=London%20Borough%20of%20Lewisham&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11228153_LL%2016%20January%202020%20-%20What%27s%20on%20%28vietnamese%20food%29&utm_content=EquianoExhibition&dm_i=402,6ONP5,CDKPS1,QNXET,1

Equiano – An Extraordinary Life – Jan 2020Jan 14, 2020 | Exhibitions, Featured, News & Events An exhibition celebrating Equiano’s amazing life (1745-1797) and his best-selling book ‘The Interesting Narrative’, one of the ‘best non-fiction books of all times’. (The Guardian) Date and Ti...

16/01/2020

How amazing is this - sculptures for a day. In all fairness some of them take a day to create, so will last way longer 💪🏽

https://www.instagram.com/p/B7QwBUOA06a/?igshid=sunito0ufid3

01/01/2020

HAPPY BEGINNING OF 2020

Adbaraya Toya aka Victoria Montou was originally from the Kingdom of Dahomey currently Benin. She was a midwife, a warrior and a healer. She trained others in the art of war, including Haiti’s founding father. As the power of the Kingdom of Dahomey was shared by a council of men and a council of women, Abdaraya Toya was part of the council of women for kingdom.

Her date of birth is unknown but Tante Toya died in 1805. Tante Abadaraya Toya was an enslaved African woman who worked with her prominent nephew on the same plantation before the Haitian revolution.

#haitianindependence

29/12/2019

RIPP

26/12/2019

Ballet Negre (1946)

Ballet Negre (1946)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWih_Lsoyf8

Location unknown. Various shots of Jamaican ballet group Ballet Negre rehearsing in England for their first season in England. Black men and women performing...

23/12/2019

Google Just Launched One of the Largest Digital Collections of Latino Art & History

Google Just Launched One of the Largest Digital Collections of Latino Art & History

Launched on September 7, Latino Cultures in the US is one of the largest digital collections of Latino art, culture, and history.

21/12/2019

Far From Home; My Mother's Lesson. | Simon Frederick | TEDxPeckham

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zUC0QjDTlSY

"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs," - said George Moore, - "and returns home to find it. That was true for Simon Frederick, who feelin...

20/12/2019

Black Book Festival 2020

19/12/2019

Carole King

Carole King

The Kenny Lynch version of this Goffin-King tune, which largely replicated the Drifters' original, was the more successful, reaching number 10 in the UK.

08/12/2019

Bob Marley's London home gets one of few blue plaques for black artists

Bob Marley's London home gets one of few blue plaques for black artists

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/oct/01/bob-marleys-london-home-gets-one-of-few-blue-plaques-for-black-artists

Plaque at Chelsea house where reggae star lived in the 70s one of ‘unacceptably low’ number

07/12/2019

05/12/2019

John Henry Smthye

05/12/2019

John Henry Smythe

22/11/2019

The Black-Art Gallery: How small space in Finsbury Park proved seminal in bringing diversity to UK art scene

https://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/heritage/the-black-art-gallery-the-seven-sisters-road-gallery-at-the-centre-of-the-1980s-black-art-scene-1-6371797

You wouldn't know it walking past today, but in the early 1980s 225 Seven Sisters Road was the centre of the UK's emerging Black-Art scene.

21/11/2019

Azellia White, a pioneering African American female pilot, is dead at 106

Azellia White, a pioneering African American female pilot, is dead at 106

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/20/us/african-american-female-pioneer-pilot-dies-trnd/index.html

Azellia White, one of the nation's first African American female pilots, earned her pilot's license just after World War II and found freedom flying in the skies above the Jim Crow South.

19/11/2019

Match of the Day

Match of the Day

Walter Tull - footballer and black British war hero

18/11/2019

Inspired!

17/11/2019

An introduction to Wide Sargasso Sea

Really looking forward to ‘Words & Music Time Machine Events - 1966: Caribbean & England’ this afternoon at Lympne Castle.

Excerpts of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys read by Imogen Stubbs and Alex Jennings; Ruby Philogene MBE will be singing, with black spirituals and a music sound mix from 1966.

This is so good it makes me want to reread it! Sx
https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/articles/an-introduction-to-wide-sargasso-sea

Wide Sargasso Sea is both a response and a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, set in the West Indies and imagining the lives of Bertha Mason and her family. Bidisha describes how Jean Rhys’s novel portrays the racial and sexual exploitation at the heart of western civilisation and literat...

01/11/2019

Preserve your family photos

You and your relatives probably have albums or boxes full of photos that serve as precious reminders of the many special moments from your past, as well as countless digital photos on smartphones and computers.

Family memories recorded in photographs create your legacy for future generations. When I used to run family archiving workshops in London, the advice was to always get prints made of your favourite images and label the back by lightly recording the following information:

-the date when the photo was taken
-the location stating where the photo was taken
-details about who is in the photo, at a basic level full names. Additionally you could include ages, relationship etc.
-possibly who took the photo

Yes its work and can take a little time, so best done in batches. Believe me, our memories for this information may not stand up to the test of time.

Store photos all together, in plastic free and acid free albums or boxes, away from excessive temperatures.

In 100 years time when we’ve long passed on, this is how ancestors can be identified by successive generations coming after us!

01/11/2019

BBC World Service - Focus on Africa, Why are some African-Americans returning to Africa?

Why are some African-Americans returning to Africa?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07sm2vv

We speak to the African-Americans making a new life in their ancestral homes

29/10/2019

Elijah Cummings' wife gives tribute that brings crowd to their feet - CNN Video

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/10/25/elijah-cummings-wife-tribute-funeral-sot-vpx.cnn

Dr. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, the widow of the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, appeared to respond to President Trump's previous attacks of her husband during a speech at his funeral.

28/10/2019

Incredible Photos Of Black British Girlhood In The 90s

These Brilliant Photos Celebrate Black British Girlhood In The 90s

https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/throwback-photos-of-black-britain-90s

Whether you're a child of the '90s or watched millennials live through it, these incredible photos celebrate the joy of black British girlhood.

19/10/2019

Jamaica 1930

18/10/2019

How ‘Strange Fruit’ Killed Billie Holiday

So sad❤️

How ‘Strange Fruit’ Killed Billie Holiday.

https://progressive.org/dispatches/strange-fruit-caused-the-murder-of-billie-holiday-180220/?sfns=mo

Holiday, who throughout her career called public attention to the devastating impact of white supremacy, drew the notice of the Commissioner for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He ordered her to stop singing the song...

14/10/2019

The Forum - People of Colour Cultural Exchange in Folkestone & Kent

Walter Tull - Born in Folkestone in 1888 to a British mother and Bajan father, Walter was one of the first black outfield footballers to play at the highest level, for Tottenham Hotspur, Northampton Town and Clapton. He also signed for Rangers of Glasgow in February, 1917 intending to play for them after the war.

In December 1914 Walter readily enlisted with the 17th (Service) Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, otherwise known as the Footballer’s Battalion. Defying the military regulation that restricted the rank of officer to those of ‘pure European descent’, he became the first black officer to lead white men in battle. Tragically, like so many, Walter was killed in action on 25th March 1918, a month before his 30th birthday.

Folkestone Museum #BHM #Caribbeanson #waltertull #Barbados #Folkestone #Kent

14/10/2019

The motherland: lost images of the Windrush generation

Images of he Windrush Generation

Undeveloped for over 50 years, Howard Grey’s images of West Indian arrivals at Waterloo capture their mixed emotions