What Is The C In Carnival For?
TBC Recruitment - Educators for NAS and Springboard REQUIRED
Nelson Mandela Day by Amarion Scarlett-Reid
Celebrating 5 years of TBC
Celebrate 5 years of The Black Curriculum
Advancing a Critical Discussion on Black History Education in the UK - Roundtable Edition.
TBC’s External Evaluation of Impact 2020-2023
The Black Curriculum has published today the findings of an independent evaluation that assesses the impact we are making in the education system. The research timeline used available monitoring data spanning the period from 2021 to 2023, however, The Black Curriculum's policy and advocacy campaign work, the 'Teach Black History 365' / 'To Be Honest 365' campaign, started much earlier and launched in 2019. This campaign, as highlighted in the report, led to significantly high levels of raised awareness and audience engagement across the world.
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We are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with DK Books to publish a series of three books in August 2022 entitled; Legacies: Black British Pioneers, Migration: Journeys through Black British History and Places: Important Sites in Black British History.
Teaching Black British History – Where are we now?
The debate on teaching Black British history has gathered momentum in the past three years as a result of our advocacy work at The Black Curriculum and the #TBH365Campaign. The realisation that the National Curriculum barely covered Black British history however goes as far back as 2014 when the following petition to ‘Introduce Black History in the primary curriculum’ was made to the UK Government.
TBC’s new partnership with Into Film
We are excited to announce a new partnership with Into Film.
Conversations With Young People has concluded
We have successfully concluded our ‘Conversations with Young People’ series, held throughout October’s Black History Month. Our aim with the series was to explore young people’s understanding and perspectives of colonialism.
Meet TBC’s New Department Head!
Invitation to Tender for the Evaluation of The Black Curriculum's Programmes and Initiatives
Springboard: September 29 @ Powerhouse, Manchester
The Black Curriculum delivered a Manny on the Map Springboard workshop on the 29th of September, in partnership with the Poetry Place, a poetry collective based in Manchester who facilitated the session. The facilitators designed the workshop for young people that explored how poetry and music has been used as a form of protest, that speaks up against racial discrimination.
Conversations with Young People
The Black Curriculum will be running a series of ‘Conversations with Young People’ throughout October’s Black History Month, to explore young people’s understanding of colonialism.
Wales introduces BAME history in its national curriculum
Wales has become the first nation in the UK to mandate Black history lessons across its national curriculum. This means all learning areas will need to reflect the diverse experiences and contributions of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities and individuals, in both the past and present Wales.
RIP Chris Kaba
The Black Curriculum is saddened to hear about the death of 24-year old Chris Kaba. Chris was fatally shot by the Metropolitan Police on Monday evening after being wrongly presumed to be in possession of a firearm. He is the second Black man this year to have been killed by the police, following the death of Oladedji Omishore just a few months ago in June.
Birmingham Common Ground Youth Summit
Earlier this month we were invited down to Birmingham to host a workshop to 200 young people at the Birmingham Common Ground Youth Summit. The Summit is Part of Bring the Power Youth Programme and is funded by Birmingham City Council, the Common Ground Grant is a creative engagement project with a PSHE curriculum link open to Secondary schools in Birmingham that aims to foster cultural collaboration, promote student leadership and an opportunity to reflect and share what it means to be part of the Commonwealth in 2022.
Royal African Society, African Kingdoms
The African Kingdoms event is an evening of networking and discussion hosted by the Royal African Society to learn about approaches to teaching African history in schools. On June 20, they hosted their second instalment of the event at SOAS university, it was an evening of hope centred around the practice in the arena of African history.