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Exhibition review: The white washing of Marie Stopes’ eugenicist beliefs
By Dana Khalil Ahmad Follow @danaxahmad “Certainly there are very real differences between us of race, age, and sex. But it is not those differences between us that are separating us. It is rather our...
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‘The Whitewashing of Climate Change Solutions’
By Amit Singh Pope Francis has been lauded by climate change campaigners for an announcement last week in which he noted that “We have come to see ourselves as her [the earth’s] lords and masters,...
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Genocide: History Repeating
by Robert Kazandjian Follow @RKazandjian ‘I became interested in genocide because it happened so many times. It happened to the Armenians, then after the Armenians, Hitler took action.’ – Raphael...
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How Britain buried the brutality of its colonial past
by Maya Goodfellow Follow @Mayagoodfellow A statue of Sir Charles Napier stands in Trafalgar Square. Napier looks out over one of London’s most famous tourist sites and is, quite benignly, described as...
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Why saying “haters gonna hate” is just not good enough
Normalising The Marginalised by Shane Thomas Follow @tokenbg #WhatsWrongWithWhiteFeminism The racism of Margaret Sanger, Susan B. Anthony, & Frances Willard is still a part of the movement. — Mikki...
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Revolutions don’t need vanguards
by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab Five years into the uprisings that swept the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, protests continue to mark the region’s political climate. While its pioneers Tunisia and...
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The Koh-i-Noor diamond and why British Historians must be de-colonised
by Marcus Stow Follow @marcuswstow India would like some of the British Empire’s spoils back, and have made it in known with a campaign to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond, worth £105m and currently set...
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“Both racism and anti-racism were present in the making of the English...
An Interview with Satnam Virdee by Jagdish Patel Follow @jagdish__patel Each October, as Black Month begins the Guardian columnist, Gary Younge, writes an engaging article asking a simple question,...
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Pope Francis pontificates on ‘new colonialism,’ Africa still reeling from the...
by Rachel Décoste Follow @RachelDecoste Thirty years ago Pope John Paul II chose Cameroon as the location to apologise to black Africa for the involvement of white Christians in the slave trade. This...
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Your fascination with Muslim women’s bodies has a long misogynistic history
by Nadia Atia Follow @AtiaNadia In the early hours of Wednesday 18 November, Hasna Aït Boulahcen, aged 26, of Moroccan origin, was killed in an explosion in Paris. Initial news coverage of the young...
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ART AND EMPIRE @ TATE BRITAIN
by Zarina Muhammad Follow @thewhitepube Institutions can never satisfactorily deal with confronting colonialism’s past and present. That is a fact. They never go far enough. There is never any real...
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The Black Panther Movement is part of Black British History too
by Amber Fletcher Follow @thebookbowl The Black Panthers are well-known for their fight against racist oppression in America, but the importance of their work was not limited to the US. Their...
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Success is defined as white and male – a new school curriculum could change that
by Maya Goodfellow Follow @mayagoodfellow Lord of the Flies, Animal Farm and Great Expectations. What do these books have in common? They were all written by white men and they’re all set texts on GCSE...
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Where are all the Black historians?
Black historians in the UK: the unseen scholars by Patrick Vernon Follow @ppvernon BBC Radio 4’s Making History programme recently considered the plight of black historians, taking six minutes to...
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Exclusive excerpt – Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of...
Excerpt from Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi In celebration of World Book Night, we present this exclusive excerpt from Ibram X. Kendi’s...
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Celebrating the life and times of J A Rogers – one of the leading Black...
by Patrick Vernon Follow @ppvernon After my recent article on the absence of black historians and the growing network of independent black scholars, I felt I wanted to share one of my personal heroes...
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The new Jungle Book tries to bypass racism by erasing identities altogether
by Rajeev Balasubramanyam Follow @Rajeevbalasu George Orwell called Rudyard Kipling ‘the prophet of British imperialism… morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting.’ And yet eighty years after...
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An introduction to the Indian Ocean slave trade
by Karen Williams Follow @redrustin When many people think of slavery, they think of the translatlantic trade that took place between Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean. The legacy of enslavement...
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Zwarte Piet is a product of the Netherlands’ long involvement in the slave trade
by Karen Williams Follow @redrustin The first time that I saw a photograph of the Zwarte Piet celebrations in the Netherlands, the door to questions of slavery in my own life swung wide open. There –...
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Remembering Eqbal Ahmad: A Conversation with Stuart Schaar
This week marks the anniversary of the passing of a heavyweight radical intellectual few now remember by S U Ahmad Follow @saffi_ua ‘In addition to being an oral person – a sort of peregrine Muslim...
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