black history season - Hackney Citizen

Hackney Council offers £1k grants to residents for events celebrating this year’s Black History Season

Town Hall wants to hear ideas from residents before 20 August deadline

Author: Julia Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter

Artist Veronica Ryan with her sculptures

‘Icon’: One of first Black doctors in Hackney honoured with mural outside Elsdale Surgery

Volunteers and patients team up to commemorate Dr Colin Franklin, who practiced in the borough in the early 20th century

Author: Marion Weaver

‘Icon’: One of first Black doctors in Hackney honoured with mural outside Elsdale Surgery

Hackney’s young politicians invite local teenagers to Black History Season launch this weekend

Special guests, music and food on offer as Youth Parliament kicks off two-month celebration

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney’s young politicians invite local teenagers to Black History Season launch this weekend

Cllr Sade Etti: ‘We must come together to send the clear message that Hackney is no place for hate’

The borough’s No Place for Hate champion encourages ‘inclusivity and respect’ ahead of National Hate Crime Awareness Week 2021

Author: Hackney Citizen

Cllr Sade Etti: ‘We must come together to send the clear message that Hackney is no place for hate’

‘This inspires us to think’: Town Hall puts Black history on the map in Hackney

Council releases specially commissioned poster by artist Marcie Mintrose that highlights points of interest, both past and present, across the borough

Author: Hackney Citizen

‘This inspires us to think’: Town Hall puts Black history on the map in Hackney