Black Networking Group

Walter Tull was born in Folkestone on 28th April 1888. His father was a carpenter from Barbados who had moved to Folkestone and married a local woman. By the age of nine, Walter had lost both his parents, and when he was 10 he and his brother Edward were sent to a Methodist orphanage in [...]

Hidden from History: The Canadian Holocaust
The Untold Story of the Genocide of Aboriginal Peoples by Church and State in Canada
http://canadiangenocide.nativeweb.org/

The International Slavery Museum explores both the historical and contemporary aspects of slavery, addressing the many legacies of the slave trade and telling stories of bravery and rebellion amongst the enslaved people. These are stories which have been largely untold.
For more than 2,000 years people in many different parts of the world have forced [...]

Britain’s 300,000 Gypsies, Roma and Travellers have lived, worked and travelled throughout Britain for over 500 years, yet we have been almost entirely written out of British history.
Go to most museums, libraries and schools and nothing about our history and culture is kept or taught. The result is a widespread ignorance about who we are, [...]

See www.plymoutharmedforcesweek.co.uk or www.pafw.co.uk      
 
Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth. Free.
 
Highlights the often under-recognised contributions made by men and women from Africa, Asia, the West Indies and other Commonwealth countries to Defence over 250 years.
 

The street performance that started it all. damali takes the struggle for reparations to the street and gets the job done. In this work, titled living flag, she panhandles for reparations- collecting money from white people and paying it immediately to black people.

http://www.youtube.com/user/damaliayo
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0oHYOYXIkk

 
Alongside From War to Windrush, the Imperial War Museum is also launching a new online exhibition as part of the Their Past Your Future programme entitled Through My Eyes: Stories of Conflict, Belonging and Identity. The exhibition will illustrate the ways in which various twentieth century conflicts have made people rethink or reaffirm their own [...]

To mark the sixtieth anniversary of the arrival of the MV Empire Windrush in Britain in 1948, this exhibition will tell the personal stories of the involvement of Black men and women from the West Indies and Britain in the First and Second World Wars.
http://london.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conEvent.2377
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Noor Inayat Khan was one of the most romantic of the SOE agents and one whose suitability to be sent into the field has often been questioned. The great-great-grandaughter of the legendary Tipu Sultan, the 18th century Muslim ruler who died in the struggle to stem the British conquest of Southern India.
 
http://www.64-baker-street.org/agents/agent_fany_noor_inayat_khan.html
 
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Moving Here explores, records and illustrates why people came to England over the last 200 years and what their experiences were and continue to be. It offers free access, for personal and educational use, to an online catalogue of versions of original material related to migration history from local, regional and national archives, libraries and [...]