Black History Month

A women sitting on a wooden stage beside a quilt and a framed historic photograph.

People's History

‘There’s a price to be paid’: one woman’s mission to highlight historic buildings’ slave trade links

Gloria Daniel has spent years tracing the connections between the UK’s built environment and its colonial trade in humans. An exhibition at Ashton Court and a new memorial in Bristol Cathedral are pushing back on hidden injustice.

‘You need to see yourself’: tackling the national curriculum’s overwhelming whiteness

Listen: Bristol Unpacked, with Zakiya McKenzie on Black in the green movement and why people shouldn’t be so polite

Black History Month

Misunderstood and excluded: How to build mental health services fit for diverse communities

The Cable speaks to Nilaari, Project Zazi and other local practitioners calling for more culturally competent mental health provision for BAME communities.

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with poet Lawrence Hoo, on decolonising education, and if he’s now in the establishment