Black British Lives Matter: A Clarion Call for Equality

In response to the international outcry at George Floyd’s death, Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder have commissioned this collection of essays to discuss how and why we need to fight for Black lives to matter – not just for Black people but for society as a whole.
Recognising Black British experience within the Black Lives Matter movement, nineteen prominent Black figures explain why Black lives should be celebrated when too often they are undervalued. Drawing from personal experience, they stress how Black British people have unique perspectives and experiences that enrich British society and the world; how Black lives are far more interesting and important than the forces that try to limit it.
"We achieve everything not because we are superhuman. We achieve the things we achieve because we are human. Our strength does not come from not having any weaknesses, our strength comes from overcoming them" Doreen Lawrence.
"I always presumed racism would always be here, that it was a given. But the truth is, it was not always here, it was invented." David Olusoga "Our identity and experience will shape every story, bleed into every poem, inform every essay whether it’s about Black ‘issues’ or not" Kit de Waal

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The wave of emotions that gripped the universes after watching one human being placed his knee upon the neck of another, in the middle of the the street in broad daylight, until he was no longer breathing, was and still is incredulous. For such a person to believe that he had the rights to conduct himself in this manner and thought very little of his action of being so outrageously cruel, tells the world that the problem of colour is still a deep racial indifference, where one race can believe they are superior to another to such a degrading level.

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