Teaching Black British history at school | Kwame Boateng from The Black Curriculum

Most of us learn history in a classroom at school. From the ancient Greeks to World Wars, we’re given a context in which to understand the world and our place in it. So when a black child enters a UK classroom, do we want the first time they see someone who looks like them to be an intellectual powerhouse, a nation-changing warrior, or an enslaved person? 

Kwame Boateng from The Black Curriculum explains how they're addressing the lack of Black British history in the UK curriculum, where the boundaries of time and geography of the British Empire come in to play, his favourite black historical figure John Blanke, and The Black Curriculum’s campaign to get black history incorporated into the education system, 365 days of the year.

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