By Temi Oyenuga Surely, you’ve heard of the words ‘bae’… ‘lit’… ‘trippin’, ‘what’s good’. In your music, on social media, or maybe just in everyday conversation. But have you ever stopped to wonder where these words actually come from? The renowned lingo forms part of a language called AAVE. For those who don’t know, AAVEContinue reading “Exploring Black Languages, a quick look at AAVE (African American Vernacular English)”
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Press Release – BLAM Calls for the Immediate Reversal of a South London School’s Decision to Ban Black British English from the Classroom
Black Learning Achievement and Mental Health http://www.blamuk.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – THURSDAY 8 OCTOBER 2021 BLAM UK Press Release: Leading Black Organisation Calls for the Immediate Reversal of a South London School’s Decision to Ban Black British English from the classroom. A South London Secondary School, Ark All Saints Academy, has banned the use ofContinue reading “Press Release – BLAM Calls for the Immediate Reversal of a South London School’s Decision to Ban Black British English from the Classroom”
BLAM UK’s Open Letter to Ark All Saints Academy
Open Letter to: All Saints School Academy 140 Wyndham Rd, London, SE5 0UB By Email Only Continue reading “BLAM UK’s Open Letter to Ark All Saints Academy”
The historic significance of community-based collective action in decolonising education By Eve Doran
The discourse around decolonising education has been brought to the public stage in recent years. Activists, academics, educators, parents, and students alike have voiced their concerns about the whitewashing of British history and anti-Blackness in all levels of education. An important early initiative towards the decolonising the curriculum movement as we know it today thatContinue reading “The historic significance of community-based collective action in decolonising education By Eve Doran”
Zero Tolerance policies, a tool that entrenches anti-Blackness in UK Schools
By Ife Thompson Since the advent of the US-based charter Schools in the early 1990s, there has been a steady increase in UK schools towards the use of zero-tolerance behaviour policies. This is a behavioural policy that increases the likely hood of pupils in general, but Black pupils in particular, of being placed in Pupil ReferralContinue reading “Zero Tolerance policies, a tool that entrenches anti-Blackness in UK Schools”
The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival
By Rachael Banahan On June 25th 2021, the well-anticipated documentary consisting of clips from the Harlem cultural festival ‘Summer of Soul’ (or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), was released. There has been much excitement surrounding it, which is likely due to the fact that the unreleased tapes were locked away in a basementContinue reading “The 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival”
Black languages throughout the Diaspora
By Sophia Purdy-Moore and Ife Thompson Black British English, West African Creole, Jamaican Patois and more… Although Black British people only make up 3% of the UK’s general population, Black British English has had a profound impact on British and global culture. Black British English is a combination of The Jamaican Language (Patois), West AfricanContinue reading “Black languages throughout the Diaspora “
FESTAC 77: The Revival of Black and African Cultural Values
By Oluwatosin Attah ‘For the first time since the Slave Trade, for the first time in 500 years, the black family was together again, was whole again, was one again.’ – May 1977 Edition of Ebony Magazine This article highlights the cultural importance of the Second World Black Festival of Arts and Culture whilst underliningContinue reading “FESTAC 77: The Revival of Black and African Cultural Values”
BLAM UK Press Release: BLAM UK is now a AQA Award Unit centre
Black Learning Achievement and Mental Health UK CIC (BLAM UK) is now an Approved AQA Unit Award Centre. We are currently providing AQA award Units on Black British history and in the process of creating our own AQA BLAM Black History Module. We provide this service for All Key stages 1-5. AQA provides the UnitContinue reading “BLAM UK Press Release: BLAM UK is now a AQA Award Unit centre”
Pimlico Students’ Victory- BLAM UK and BPLS Joint Statement
Black Learning Achievement and Mental Health (“BLAM”) & Black Protest Legal Support’s (“BPLS”) “Hair for people of African descent has always been a human rights issue.” Hair Equality Report 2019 BLAM and BPLS are delighted to announce that Pimlico Academy has now agreed that no students will be excluded for exercising their right to protestContinue reading “Pimlico Students’ Victory- BLAM UK and BPLS Joint Statement”
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