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Free Thinking: What Does a Black History Curriculum Look Like?

What does a Black history curriculum look like?

What Does a Black History Curriculum Look Like?

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, What Does a Black History Curriculum Look Like?

Reports from The Runnymede Trust and The Black Curriculum call for wider history teaching.

Rana Mitter's panel includes Kimberly McIntosh from the Runnymede Trust, Lavinya Stennett from the Black Curriculum and New Generation Thinker Christienna Fryar.

Whose life stories are missing from the British history we write and teach?  How do we widen the way we look at episodes which are on the syllabus ? 
Rana Mitter's panel comprises Kimberly McIntosh Senior Policy Editor from the Runnymede Trust, Lavinya Stennett founder of the Black Curriculum & New Generation Thinker Christienna Fryar, who runs the Black British History MA at Goldsmiths, University of London.  Plus Hester Grant has just published a history of the Sharp family.  Granville Sharp was instrumental in securing a definitive legal ruling on the question of whether a slave could be compelled to leave Britain.  How does a group biography retell this story?  

The Good Sharps by Hester Grant is out now. 
The Runnymede Trust and TIDE report can be found here https://www.runnymedetrust.org/projects-and-publications/education/runnymede-tide-project-teaching-migration-report.htm
https://www.theblackcurriculum.com/our-work 

You can find a Free Thinking discussion in which Bernardine Evaristo, Keith Piper, Miranda Kaufmann and Kehinde Andrews look at Black British History  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081tkr9
the shadow of slavery is discussed by  Dr Katie Donington, Dr Christienna Fryar, Rosanna Amaka and Juliet Gilkes Romero                     https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000f7d5
and The Influence of the Black British art movement discussed by artists Sonia Boyce, Isaac Julien and Eddie Chambers 
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04ptlk9
A long conversation with Professor Paul Gilroy https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08chbpf  and with Linton Kwesi Johnson https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001jrs
Everything You Never Knew about Indian History  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b069yb6k
Afropean Identities discussed by Caryl Philips and Johnny Pitts  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005sjw

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