Black History
in 100 Objects

This is my painting inspired by The Gully Queens of Jamaica…

This Statue is known as the National Windrush Monument at Waterloo Train Station in London, UK. For me it is a great reminder the Windrush Generation…

This is a statue that was recently erected in the centre of Cardiff, it shows Betty Campbell who was a Welsh community activist and Wales' first black head teacher…

I've enjoyed several of Zadie Smith's novels, and love how she writes characters with such varied experiences of their Black British identities…

This book features the stories of my family and community members, whose resilience and accomplishments make me incredibly proud.

Sadly Olive Morris passed away at just 27 years old, and I wanted to find something that would help me to remember and share her legacy.

This is a book written by my second cousin Andrea Levy who is now deceased. The book went on to become a best-seller, was turned into a play and then a BBC drama featuring Benedict Cumberbatch…

The strain of racism: During a stressful time in my life my wife brought this face as a gift. It was her way of saying this is what you look like - stressed- but I get and I’m walking with you…

Johny Pitts is a self-taught photographer, writer and broadcaster from Sheffield. “The product of an African American musician father and a white working class mother who taught English…

… a fascinating insight into social mobility and inequality in Britain for someone who arrived in the UK as a child refugee after the Somali civil war…

The love African mothers have for children a symbiotic connection that is enduring and sacrificial…