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Exhibition backing for top singer

16th October 201916th October 2019 Josie McFarlane 214 Views 0 Comments #CRE, Business, Church news, exhibition, singer

The one-time Manfred Mann harmonica-playing Paul Jones had a powerful backing group as he opened  the Christian Resources Exhibition at

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UK galleries have embraced black artists, says exhibition curator

23rd June 201920th June 2019 Josie McFarlane 380 Views 0 Comments #Black artists, black talent, BME, culture, Diversity, exhibition, galleries, Inclusion, Support, UK art

Britain’s cultural institutions are more open than ever before to black British culture and the artists behind it, according to

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Iniva: The black arts space you may not know

22nd June 201920th June 2019 Josie McFarlane 272 Views 0 Comments Black art, BME art, Display, exhibition, Painting, talent, UK

On the heels of the black arts movement of the 1980s, Iniva (The Institute of International Visual Arts) was founded

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Art exhibition focuses on mystery of Easter

12th April 201911th April 2019 Josie McFarlane 315 Views 0 Comments art, christian, community, easter, exhibition, Faith, God, University

A multi-format art exhibition, exploring the journey towards Easter in Christianity, is being organised by the University of St Andrews.

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A secret network that helped slaves find freedom

2nd February 20191st February 2019 Josie McFarlane 390 Views 0 Comments African American, art, black, christian, community, Dawoud Bey, exhibition, Network, Night Coming Tenderly, Photographer, Slave trade, Slaves

During the late 18th Century, a network of secret routes was created in America, which by the 1840s had been

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New Tiger Bay material to showcase Cardiff docks’ history

7th January 201919th December 2018 Josie McFarlane 562 Views 0 Comments black, Cardiff, community, exhibition, Faith, History, Multicultural, oldest multi-ethnic community, Tiger Bay

More than 7,000 photos and videos will be used to tell the history of what life was like in Cardiff’s

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Oxford museum ‘educated about Maasai objects’

8th December 20186th December 2018 Josie McFarlane 436 Views 0 Comments Africa, community, culture, exhibition, History, Maasai objects, Maasai people, Museum, Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, sacred, Samwel Nangiria, tribes

A delegation from East Africa has been in the UK to educate the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford about its collection of

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Cambridge to celebrate black alumni with University Library exhibition

8th September 201810th September 2018 Shirley McGreal 608 Views 0 Comments #BAME News, #Cambridge, #Cambridge University, #St Johns College, #UK News, black, exhibition, University, Zadie Smith

The exhibition, entitled ‘Black Cantabs: History Makers’, will be on display along the UL’s Royal Corridor throughout Michaelmas term The

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How Britain imprisoned some of the first black fighters against slavery

16th August 201830th August 2018 Josie McFarlane 11454 Views 0 Comments Abigail Coppins, African, African-Caribbean, Black British, Black fighters, Black history, Black population, Brigadier-General John Moore, brigands, British prison, Captain Louis Delgrès, Caribbean, Caribbean Island, Caribbean people, Caste, Coppins, Delgrès, dying, English Heritage, Eulalie Piemont, exhibition, Fighting, Forgotten history, Forgotton, former slaves, free-born property owner, guerrilla campaign, Jean-Louis Marin Pèdre, l’Année de la Liberté, L’armée Française dans les bois, Martinique, Matouba on Guadeloupe, mixed race, Napoleonic France, Panthéon, Pont Neuf, Portchester Castle, Portsmouth Harbour, prisoners, revolutionary, Runaway slaves, Second Carib War, Sir Charles Gordon, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, Slavery, St lucia, St Vincent, struggle against slavery, War of Austrian Succession

Forgotten history to be revisited with an exhibition revealing how some of the most celebrated black fighters in the early struggle against

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