October is Black History Month — but why is Black British History relegated to just 31 days in a year? It’s a question that creator of The Black Curriculum, Lavinya Stennett is determined to address…
When Lavinya Stennett was at school she found little if any relatable black history or contribution in the curriculum she was being taught. Her experiences led her to set up the Black Curriculum, a social enterprise that aims to change the way schools teach and integrate black history into their students’ education. We talk to her about her mission to highlight and challenge the implicit racial bias in the school curriculum at a nationwide level — and why it is so vital to provide a contextual, globalised history that roots the Black British experience in histories of movement and migration in order to underpin a sense of identity and belonging.
