Racism haunts black people in Italy
For Italian-Eritrean filmmaker and podcaster Ariam Tekle, there is no doubt that…
My teacher said I was more likely to be dead by 25 than a footballer as a black person
There weren’t many expectations of me when I was at school. Nobody…
The mystery behind my mixed-race – Hiram Johnson’s uncomfortable story
As a former policeman, Hiram Johnson’s knack for investigations led him to…
Dancing through racism – Britain’s first black ballerina
When she began pursuing a dance career, she was told there was…
The Black Panther who hijacked a jet to Algeria and started again in France
It was an unusual hijacking by a group of three men, two…
David Kennedy: The African-American reverend who bought a KKK shop
In 1996, an African-American reverend called David Kennedy faced one of his…
Nels Abbey: ‘I was mistaken for a security guard at my first banking job’
"On my first day in my first banking job I was waiting…
Yvonne Connolly: Britain’s first black woman headteacher
When Yvonne Connolly took up a post as headteacher of Ringcross Primary…
Bernardine Evaristo: The first Black British author to win the Booker Prize
In a historic victory, Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize in 2019…
