Jamaican-Born UK Community Activist Olive Morris Honored with a Google Doodle
The community leader and activist Olive Morris was honored on June 26, 2020, with a Google Doodle to commemorate the 68th anniversary of her birth in St. Catherine, Jamaica, in 1943. Morris moved to Brixton in the United Kingdom from Jamaica to join her parents who had migrated to the UK as part of the […]
British Jamaican Featured on CNN Discussing why Black History Should be Mandatory in UK Curriculum
Lavinya Stennett, founder and CEO of The Black Curriculum organization, was featured on a June 29, 2020 episode of CNN News Room Live with Michael Holmes. Stennett spoke at length about why black history should be mandatory in all UK schools. Black history is typically touched upon briefly or omitted altogether, even though it’s an […]
