In the early twentieth century, Black communities in America had begun marking the February birthdays of social reformer and civil rights activist, Frederick Douglass and US president Abraham Lincoln as opportunities to celebrate emancipation and self-determination.  In 1926, Carter G Woodson established Negro History Week, fuelled by what he saw...

Black Women Speak 14 October | 7.00pm The Passion of Remembrance Directors: Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien UK 1986, 82 minutes Genre: Drama Certificate: 15 Shifting between real and mystic landscapes, Blackwood and Julien create a visual mosaic to signify the complexity of the Black British experience and the often-overlooked...

Migration and Myth 21 October | 7.00pm Young Soul Rebels Director: Isaac Julien UK 1991, 105 minutes Genre: Drama Certificate: 15 Isaac Julien’s groundbreaking inner-city murder mystery explores London subcultures of the late 1970s. Pirate radio hosts Caz and Chris decide to investigate the death of their friend, who was...

Archive and Intellect 28 October | 7.00pm The Stuart Hall Project: Revolution, politics, culture and the New Left experience Director: John Akomfrah UK 2013, 95 minutes Genre: Documentary Certificate: 12 This absorbing documentary from director John Akomfrah presents and intimate and engaging portrait of Stuart Hall, the Jamaican-born public intellectual...