Black Futures: The Future is Now

This year, I chose the theme of ‘Black Futures: The Future is Now’ to consider how the past influences the future, how history and knowledge can be reclaimed, how we can make and imagine a liberated future for ourselves and how we can achieve justice. 

Sandy Ogundele
Black and Minority Ethnic Students’ Officer
 
 

The Artwork

This wonderful piece of artwork by Becca Human was commissioned by us for Black History Month. Read about why I’ve chosen these amazing people from history and why the quotes still hold such significance. 

Sandy Ogundele
Black and Minority Ethnic Students’ Officer
Articles

My inspiration: My dad

Written by Kadeejah Kallo, BSc Economics and Geography   My father grew up in a village called Karako in the South-East region of Guinea in West Africa. His story however, is not exactly...

My inspiration: My mum

Written by Abazz Shayaam-Smith,  BA in Geography with Quantitative Methods Interestingly, it was not until I moved out and I was placed at a considerable distance from my mum that I...

Learn about UCL's historic links to Eugenics

Learn about UCL’s historic links to research, teaching and financial gains from eugenics, and read our response to the Eugenics Enquiry.

Events

BHM 2020 Film Screening: Babylon / Riots and Rumours of Riots (short)

Babylon follows a young reggae DJ (Brinsley Forde, M.B.E., frontman of the British group Aswad) of the Ital 1 Lion sound system in Thatcher-era South London as he pursues his musical ambitions while...

Panel Discussion: Why does my university uphold white supremacy?

Like many other institutions and workplaces, universities are not exempt from white supremacy the devastating effects it can have on the lives of students, staff and the communities local to them....

Panel Discussion: Black Activism and Protest

Speakers on the present (and history) of Black Protest, Black Freedom, Resistance and the theme of Abolition. They will speak on local, global and present activism. Zoom registration link can...
Podcasts

In conversation with Francio Guadeloupe

This podcast has been created by the Sarah Parker Remond Centre. Social and cultural anthropologist Francio Guadeloupe joins us for a conversation on understanding the black condition and the...

In conversation with Gloria Wekker

This podcast has been created by the Sarah Parker Remond Centre. Gloria Wekker, author of White Innocence: Paradoxes of Colonialism and Race, discusses white innocence and colour-...

Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of deportation to Jamaica

This podcast has been created by the Sarah Parker Remond Centre.   Our latest Short Takes podcast is provided by Luke de Noronha, author of Deporting Black Britons: Portraits of...