Black History Month 2024
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The theme for 2024’s Black History Month is ‘Reclaiming Narratives’; here’s a selection of inspiring titles by Black authors which do just that, from Diane Abbott’s account of her experience as the first Black woman elected to parliament, to Caleb Femi’s second poetry collection from Penguin, a minute-by-minute account of a night at a rowdy monthly house party.
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Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone.For too long, Africa’s history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now, Zeinab Badawi sets the record…
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Richly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of five remarkable Black men, and a meditation on race, estrangement and the search for home.'Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The…
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Change everything you thought you knew about history and the people who have shaped it.Black History for Every Day of the Year by historian and broadcaster David Olusoga and his siblings, Yinka and Kemi, tells the far-reaching story of…
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From challenging expectations as a bright and restless child of the Windrush generation to making history as the first elected Black female MP in the UK, Diane Abbott has seen it all. A Woman Like Me takes readers through Diane’s…
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The life-affirming new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Poor'Atmospheric and intoxicating … The Wickedest is a heady night in the dance' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'Hypnotic and…
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Is white privilege real? How racist is the working class? Why has left-wing antisemitism grown? Who benefits most when anti-racists speak in racial terms?The ‘culture wars’ have generated ferocious argument, but little clarity.…
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Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures Black gay Britain as never before.'The seven Black gay men of this radical oral history have continuously shown up for us, highlighting the…
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