Celebrating Black History Month

October is Black History Month. This national celebration aims to promote and celebrate Black contributions to British society, and to foster an understanding of Black history.

A broad range of activities and events are taking place in October to celebrate Black History Month. The campaign theme for Black History Month 2022 is Time for Change: Action Not Words

Here’s a selection of the rich resources to support Black History Month.

KnowledgeShare

Visit KnowledgeShare to see a regularly updated list of papers and research on Race & Ethnicity.

Evidence summaries

We provide evidence to inform patient care, service improvement, research and clinical teaching. Recent searches we’ve carried out include:

  • Impact of staff ethnicity in aspects of primary care delivery
  • Does efficacy of treatment for depression in adults differ across ethnicity?
  • Experiences of those from diverse communities of residential care, nursing care or specialist dementia care
  • The effects of COVID-19 on mortality and morbidity in BAME groups
  • Updates on BAME NHS staff
  • Vaccine Uptake / Hesitancy – differences by gender (age 20-40) and ethnic minorities
  • Vaccination promotion and the BAME communities

Web and other resources

Ballet Black

Neo-classical ballet company that celebrates dancers of Black and Asian descent.

Black Ballad

UK based platform that seeks to tell the human experience through eyes of black British women. 

Black History Month Magazine

Leading the celebration of Black History, Arts and Culture throughout the UK.

Brap

This charity supports organisations and communities to transform the way that they think and do equality.

They provide training, online learning and organisational development services. Brap has also established a learning network for people who are involved in EDI work, the Equality Republic.

Fearless Futures

This organisation provides tailored training to help build individual and organisational understanding of inequality and power relations.

Gal-Dem

Award-winning online and print publication committed to sharing perspectives from women and non-binary people of colour

Hexitime

Skill exchange and timebank for improving the quality of health and care services across the UK. Sign up and join the campaign to create a Community of Opportunity to support BAME colleagues in the workplace by offering mentoring, support and interview coaching.

Melanin Medics

This non-profit is focused on supporting African and Caribbean aspiring medics, medical students and doctors in the UK. It aims to implement positive solutions to help overcome under-representation and economic barriers in medicine.

The Other Box

Award-winning diversity and inclusion company educating businesses on bias and educating and empowering people to work and live more inclusively.

The Runnymede Trust

The UK’s leading independent race equality thinktank.

Events                                                                                   

Sussex Health and Care

This Black History Month, Sussex Health and Care will be embodying the 2022 theme by showcasing action on race equality across the system and sharing a calendar of events and activities that celebrate Sussex’s ethnically diverse communities, and health and care staff.

Black History Month 2022 Events in the South East

Black History Month 2022 Listings OR Events in the Southeast Brighton and Hove

Social media

Follow @BHMUK and #BlackHistoryMonth on Twitter and BlackHistoryMonthUK on Facebook for the latest events and information.