Black History Month 2021: Tessa Sanderson CBE

Tessa Sanderson CBE is one of Britain’s greatest ever track and field athletes Last week, I was fortunate enough to represent IMPOWER at the Bradford Service Excellence Awards sponsoring the ‘Child at the heart of all we do’ award. It was here that I had the great...

Black History Month 2021: Malone Mukwende

Malone Mukwende is a medical student and author of Mind the Gap. Malone Mukwende is a medical student and author of Mind the Gap. Malone recognised that the majority of medical students are only taught to diagnosis conditions on white patients. His book “Mind the Gap”...

Black History Month 2021: Theresa Kachindamoto

Theresa is best known for taking forceful and impactful action to dissolve child marriages. One person I really admire is Theresa Kachindamoto. In 2003, Theresa became the Senior Chief in the Dedza District in Malawi. She is best known for taking forceful and...

Black History Month 2021: Joy Buolamwini

Joy Buolamwini is a MIT Media Lab Researcher and is in Netflix’s documentary “Coded Bias”. Joy Buolamwini is a MIT Media Lab Researcher and is in Netflix’s documentary “Coded Bias”. Joy’s initial MIT thesis highlighted the racial and gender bias of face recognition...

Black History Month 2021: Lavinya Stennett

Lavinya Stennett is the founder and CEO of The Black Curriculum Black History Month holds space to recognise, remember and celebrate Black communities, their history and contributions to civilisation. However, that doesn’t mean that these kinds of conversations and...