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Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago's foremost producer of contemporary and re-imagined opera, proudly presents the World Premiere of Quamino's Map, shedding light on the post-Revolutionary War years when London was the unlikely refuge for thousands of Black Americans who fought for their liberty on the side of the British. 

TV historian David Olusoga says young people don't want British history to be a "catalogue of heroes".

Short stories by black authors collected by Bernardine Evaristo will be available from "vending machines" in Canary Wharf in Black History Month (BHM).  

BBC Sounds - Open Book - Available Episodes Open Book Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics Episodes (577Available)

In the wake of Black Lives Matter comes Black Britain: Writing Back, a series of six ground-breaking novels by overlooked, or forgotten black British writers. Selected by playwright and novelist Bernardine Evaristo who was co-winner of the Booker prize in 2019 for Girl, Woman, Other, this is a timely venture. It is also long overdue. Among Black Lives Matter’s priorities was to protest the airbrushing of black and ethnic minority voices from far distant and recent history, and Evaristo’s ...

The origins of the Black Britain: Writing Black series began a year ago, in the wake of Evaristo’s Booker Prize win. “We got together to talk about how we could harness the energy and excitement of that moment to make further change happen,” said Prosser. The covers of the books have been redesigned by Black British artists and the audiobooks will be voiced by Black actors. Evaristo told Penguin.co.uk that “these books will take the reader from 18th-century London to 1920s Trinidad; fro...