Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Black History Month”
Lord Taylor of Warwick’s article for Parliament’s ‘The House’ magazine on Black History Month. I’ve got no problem with you black people. I love soul music. We had no racism in Cheltenham until you came here”. It was December 1990 and I had just been selected as the Conservative Party’s Parliamentary candidate. On paper my credentials were solid. I was …
It was Indira Gandhi who said: “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” So in achieving a successful multi-cultural Britain, we must build bridges between our various communities and not walls. For me, the essential message of campaigners such as Wilberforce, Clarkson and former slaves such as Equiano was a simple truth: that there is only one race, the …