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We asked three historians why Black History Month matters, and highlight a handful of features about British black history you can read right now

Michael Abbensetts was first black British playwright commissioned to write drama series for UK television

David Olusoga, Bernardine Evaristo and David Lammy are among the leading writers, artists, politicians and broadcasters who have chosen 75 books to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush

A pioneering black gay doctor who served the Elephant & Castle community for 45 years - including during the Blitz - has been recognised with a blue plaque at London South Bank University.

Local authorities are keeping mum amid claims that Barbadian fishermen are not only plying their trade illegally in Tobago’s waters but overfishing in their search for flying fish as well. In an article published recently in the Trinidad Guardian newspaper, the All Tobago Fisherfolk Association (AFTA) said it intended to write to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley about the issue. AFTA

Zarah Drummond discusses the lack of attention that has been paid to LGBTQ+ history month in Durham.

INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING house Jacaranda has told the Voice that they have acquired the rights to publish the story of Alford Dalrymple Gardner.

The pioneering 'Nurse Ophthalmic'.

Efforts have been made to commemorate the life and work of a trailblazing nurse who moved to the UK from the Caribbean in the 1800s. Annie Brewster became

Nurses, researchers and the high commissioner for St Vincent and the Grenadines have come together to remember a pioneering Caribbean-born nurse from the