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As #BlackHistoryMonth2021 comes to an end here's how we've marked this year's #ProudToBe theme including...

🔴Exclusives
🔵Opinion
📽Video

from @theipaper

🔴What is Black History Month

❓#BHM is a chance for black people to celebrate their heritage and culture with events taking place all over the country

❓In Britain the month runs throughout October

❓Events include exhibitions, poetry, talks, comedy shows, cuisine and more

This year the theme for #BHM is “Proud to Be”, which Black History Month UK magazine says is “inspired by the 2020 Black Lives Matter events”.

Here is everything you need to know about this year’s celebrations: inews.co.uk/news/black-his…

To start #BlackHistoryMonth2021, artist Veronica Ryan unveiled Britain’s first permanent monument to honour the Windrush Generation.🎨

Read more here: inews.co.uk/culture/arts/v…

Wales has become the first nation to make teaching of black histories compulsory from 2022.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

After a petition attracted nearly 35,000 signatures last year, a new curriculum will delve into the ‘stories of black, Asian and minority ethnic people’.

inews.co.uk/news/education…

🔴Only 1.3% of school teachers in Wales identify as being from a minority ethnic background, compared to 12% of students

🔴The Welsh government will offer cash bonuses to recruit more Black, Asian and minority ethnic teachers

inews.co.uk/news/education…

As a child Hannah Cusworth was taught little about Black people’s roles in history but as a teacher she's helping to change that.👩🏽‍🏫

‘Black history lessons should be about more than just Mary Seacole and the transatlantic slave trade’, writes Cusworth.

inews.co.uk/news/education…

🔵Vanessa Sefa, also a teacher, writes for i about how she ‘loves’ #BlackHistoryMonth, but how ‘too often diversity lessons are left to the goodwill of teachers’.

Read more here: inews.co.uk/opinion/commen…

And, there’s no better time to ‘Decolonize Your Bookshelf’ with a new canon of diverse authors writers say.📚

Three writers speak to i about how a new list of texts will help introduce people to authors long overlooked in schools.

inews.co.uk/culture/books/…

A group of trailblazing writers and educators are on a mission to ensure students do not leave school without reading a single text by a Black author.🏫

#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth

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It’s also been a year since workplaces made #BLM pledges but ‘black people’s experiences haven’t improved.’

🔵‘Clearly, the way to tackle these inequalities is not through unconscious bias training’, writes Guilaine Kinouani.

https://twitter.com/ipaperviews/status/1445690295006420992

Radio 4’s @jeffreykboakye has chosen five powerful songs about celebration, resistance and oppression for #BlackHistoryMonth2021 which shed light on the black British experience including:

🎶‘1980’ by Estelle
🎶‘Immigrant’ by Sade

inews.co.uk/culture/black-…

🔵@alicedearingx, the first black woman to swim for #TeamGB writes for i about how ‘it’s sad it’s taken until 2021’.

🔴Figures from @Sport_England indicate that 95% of black adults and 80% of black children do not swim in England.

inews.co.uk/opinion/alice-…

🔵@EstephanieDunn, the regional director for the Royal College of Nursing in the North West of England remembers the nurses who lost their lives on the Covid front line.

Read more here: inews.co.uk/opinion/black-…

🔵‘We’ve long known the indispensable role that nursing staff have played in protecting the health of the nation, but over the last 18 months... particularly black and ethnic minority staff, the contribution and sacrifices they’ve made have come to the fore’, writes Dunn.

🔵Dola Owoyemi, Senior Specialist Biomedical Scientist at Barts Health NHS Trust, performed critical work understanding new viral variants for #Covid19 Cog-UK.

For #BHM Owoyemi tells i how her team pulled together to save the NHS and fight the pandemic.

https://twitter.com/ipaperviews/status/1448679971166343170

🔵‘I know only too well how it feels when opportunities seem out of reach’, writes the first black female Mayor in the UK, @MayorLpool.

#BHM #ProudToBe

https://twitter.com/ipaperviews/status/1451567267293057038

🔴🎥Follow us on Instagram to see our video series with @AvrilWalksTalks who shows us Black History on the streets of London📍

See more here:

https://twitter.com/theipaper/status/1454036213090951171

🔴And make sure to sign up to our newsletters to catch the special edition for Black History Month

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🔵#BHM should be a celebration, not stuck in discussions of struggle and pain

'When black history is constantly told through the lens of racism, it leaves me questioning who Black History Month is for', writes i's Newsletter Editor @georgiaecha

inews.co.uk/opinion/black-…