Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners – with David Olusoga

Join David Olusoga, historian and broadcaster, and Katie Donington, Centre for Research in Race and Rights, as they discusses ‘Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners’ following the BBC Two documentary broadcast earlier this year. Expect a look at the scale of the slave trade, and the extraordinary choice by the government of the day to compensate slave owners for their ‘loss of property’.

Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2015, David Olusoga, Department of History, history, Institute for the Study of Slavery, Katie Donington, slavery

UoN Black History Month launch event

Launching Black History Month at The University of Nottingham is a fantastic evening of music and spoken word, featuring local performers Natalie Duncan, David ‘Stickman’ Higgins and Rob Green.

Tags: Black History Month, Black History Month 2015, David 'Stickman' Higgins, launch, music, Natalie Duncan, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, Rob Green

Black Panther speaks

A former Black Panther spoke about her experiences of activism at the University during Black History […]

Appears in Issue 71

Tags: Black History Month, David Blight, Department of American and Canadian Studies, Driven by the Movement, JoNina Abron Ervin, Professor Cecile Wright, Professor of American History at Yale University, Professor Sharon Monteith, Professor Zoe Trodd, School of Sociology and Social Policy

Black History Month at Nottingham

Music, spoken word, and public lectures on Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King — […]

Appears in Issue 80

Tags: Annette Gordon-Reed, Black History Month, BME Staff Network, Head of the School of Health Sciences, Margaret Wrinkle, Professor Patrick Callaghan, Professor Peter Ling, Sura Susso, Val Watson

Meet the author of Wash, a novel on American slavery

Join the University of Nottingham’s American & Canadian Studies department for a special Black History Month […]

Tags: author conversation, Black History Month, books, Dept of American and Canadian Studies, equality and diversity, Katie Hamilton, literature, Margaret Wrinkle, novel, Wash, Waterstones

Young Soul Rebels

Film screening for Black History Month, open to University staff and students. Introduction and Q&A with […]

Tags: Abigail Ward, Black History Month, equality and diversity, film screening, School of English

Malcolm X in Britain: race, immigration and the transatlantic civil rights movement

Special Black History Month lecture by Dr Stephen Tuck, University of Oxford Co-sponsored by the New […]

Tags: Black History Month, Dept of American and Canadian Studies, Dr Stephen Tuck, eventbrite, New Art Exchange, public lecture, University of Oxford

Celebrate Black History Month

Music, spoken word, and public lectures on Rosa Parks, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King — […]

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Tags: Black History Month, celebrate, culture, events, history, music, public lectures, spoken word