The Harlem Renaissance was an era in history where Black arts, culture and critique exploded out of the ghetto into mainstream American consciousness. Many important academics, writers, musicians and activists either lived or were heavily associated with Harlem. I won’t go into a long history lesson but to get a…

*I wrote this piece for partial credit towards a PGCertHE In this module: ’contemporary issues in teaching and learning’ we try to explore and critique how higher education is done. This is explicitly stated in the course materials, i.e. we are asked to critically examine, reflect and adapt our own…

You know when you see something that is so stupid you ask yourself whether it’s being done on purpose? That’s what equality and diversity in the Higher Education Sector feels like. When you really look at it, in some ways it seems like Universities don’t want black and working-class people…

The town belonging to the colonized people, or at least the native town, the Negro village, the medina, the reservation, is a place of ill fame, peopled by men of evil repute. They are born there, it matters little where or how; they die there, it matters not where, nor…

In 2015, a report by the Runnymead Trust revealed that only 85 out of 15,905 professors in the UK are Black. Of those, only 17 are women. Take that in for a moment… 85…17… out of nearly 16,000! …