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Posts Tagged ‘Black History Month’

Raising the colour: Hackney flies flag for Black History Season

By Claudia Lee | Wednesday 15 October 2025 at 10:32
Hackney Council black history season flag

Following a summer where flag wars have polarised the country, the borough is ‘Standing Firm in Power and Pride’

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UK’s first permanent public artworks celebrating the Windrush Generation unveiled in Hackney

By Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter | Friday 1 October 2021 at 15:31
Artist Veronica Ryan with her sculptures

Veronica Ryan’s sculptures of custard apple, breadfruit and soursop can be found on the Narrow Way

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Black History – The Past and The Present: Prominent local figures take part in ‘illuminating’ panel

By Tamsin Ssembajjo Quigley | Wednesday 28 October 2020 at 14:59

Hundreds listen as Diane Abbott MP, Patrick Vernon OBE and others cover ‘vast terrain’ in celebration of Black History Month

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Local politicians lift Black History flag over Hackney Town Hall

By Ed Sheridan, Local Democracy Reporter | Monday 5 October 2020 at 19:56

Council announces annual line-up of events honouring ‘positive and vital’ contributions of Black people to the borough

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Urswick student’s Black History Month flag raised above Hackney Town Hall

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 October 2018 at 09:55

Year 9 pupil Malaika Parillon Langlais Baron’s ‘highly creative’ design was selected from 75 competition entries

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Running the Hackney Half (Term): an activity guide for local parents

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 10 October 2017 at 12:16
Little makers: The Geffrye Museum got children to decorate their ideal room as part of a workshop

Our rundown of just some of the sessions and events around the borough to entertain even the most sugar-high child from 23 – 29 October

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Martin Puryear @ Parasol Unit, exhibition review: ‘slavery’s tumour-like presence’

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 27 September 2017 at 14:32
"I too am free": Martin Puryear's Big Phrygian (2010 - 2014). Photograph by Ron Amstutz. © Martin Puryear, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery

In time for October and Black History Month, Martin Puryear’s large-scale, impeccably crafted forms present a unique perspective on African American history and its emotional themes

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John Akomfrah’s Stuart Hall film to be screened for Black History Month

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 24 September 2013 at 17:50

Movie includes rare historical documentary footage of 1970s icon

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Black History Month – what’s going on

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 7 October 2011 at 09:42

Happenings across the borough mark events in the history of the African diaspora

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Storm over CLR James set to rage through Black History Month

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 4 October 2010 at 11:23

Replacement Dalston library will not take on its predecessor’s title

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