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Kehinde Andrews

Kehinde Andrews is professor of black studies at Birmingham City University. He is author of The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

November 2024

  • Paul Stephenson

    Paul Stephenson obituary

    Civil rights activist who organised the Bristol bus boycott, paving the way for the Race Relations Act of 1965

August 2022

  • Pan-African Congress<br>John McNair, General Secretary of the ILP (Independent Labour Party) addresses the Fifth Pan-African Congress, held at Chorlton-upon-Medlock Town Hall in Manchester, 15th - 21st October 1945. Also on the stage is Amy Ashwood Garvey, the first wife of Marcus Garvey. Original Publication: Picture Post - 3024 - Africa Speaks In Manchester - pub. 10th November 1945 (Photo by John Deakin/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

    African and Caribbean People in Britain by Hakim Adi review – long before the Windrush docked

  • Roy Hackett at home in 2020. He was one of the founders of the Commonwealth Coordinated Committee, formed in 1962 in Bristol ‘to tackle the council’s attitude towards the black population’.

    Roy Hackett obituary

May 2022

  • A woman and girl stand in front of a mural of George Floyd.

    His Name is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa review – the murder that shamed the US

    A welcome humanising of Floyd might have benefited from a wider focus, including Black women’s experiences of racism and a global perspective

March 2022

  • 18 January 2019: American philosopher Professor Lewis Gordon. Photograph by Madelene Cronjé

    Fear of Black Consciousness by Lewis Gordon review – why minds, not bodies, are the problem

    In this powerful critique rooted in film and music, the scholar explains why Black consciousness poses such a threat to racist power structures

January 2022

  • Aggrey Burke

    Black lives
    ‘We were made to feel like outcasts’: the psychiatrist who blew the whistle on racism in British medicine

    Aggrey Burke was the NHS’s first Black consultant psychiatrist. Rather than becoming a pillar of the establishment, he was forced to challenge it when he saw how other people of colour were treated

July 2021

  • Ibram X Kendi, Keisha Blain, Kehinde Andrews

    How a new generation is setting the record straight on black US history

    Recent traumas in the US have energised a fresh wave of academic studies that are finally telling the full story of centuries-long abuse and forgotten resistance

May 2021

  • Review cover image 28th May 2021 Books in a pile with stickies making a smile

    Dreaming of a better future? Ali Smith, Malcolm Gladwell and more on books to inspire change

  • The Rev Eve Pitts

    Black lives
    Eve Pitts: the Church of England’s first Black female vicar – and one of its fiercest critics

January 2021

  • Protesters out in force for the march that followed the New Cross fire, the Black People’s Day of Action, on 2 March 1981.

    Forty years on from the New Cross fire, what has changed for black Britons?

    In 1981, a blaze killed 13 black teenagers at a London house party in a suspected racist attack. What can be learned from the legacy of the outcry and activism that followed?

December 2020

  • Kehinde Andrews wears his Kwanzaa robe

    A Christmas that changed me
    Happy Kwanzaa! It’s so much more than a ‘black Christmas’

  • Guy Reid-Bailey, Bristol, 2020

    Black lives
    Guy Reid-Bailey: the man who sparked the Bristol bus boycott and then fought to desegregate housing

November 2020

  • Minnijean Brown-Trickey

    Black lives
    Minnijean Brown-Trickey: the teenager who needed an armed guard to go to school

    As one of the Little Rock Nine, she was just 16 years old when she defied racist mobs at the school gates. But, once inside, even the army could not protect her from the hatred of fellow pupils. She looks back on an extraordinary life

October 2020

  • X<br>Black Muslim leader Malcolm X holds up a paper for the crowd to see during a Black Muslim rally in New York City on Aug. 6, 1963. (AP Photo)

    The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne review – the real Malcolm X

    How black America’s anti-hero remains underestimated, even when he speaks to our times
  • Leila Hassan Howe photographed in London July 2020

    Black lives
    Leila Hassan Howe: ‘My life was made hell. You’d just hear a tirade against immigrants’

    The march she led in 1981 helped forge a black British identity. She talks about revolution, police brutality and Black Lives Matter
  • Paul Stephenson: ‘You can’t have true racial harmony without racial justice.’

    Black lives
    Paul Stephenson: the hero who refused to leave a pub – and helped desegregate Britain

    When he sat down in a pub that banned black people, Stephenson helped change Britain’s discrimination laws. He talks about organising the Bristol bus boycott, attacks from the National Front – and why Muhammad Ali composed a poem about him

September 2020

  • John Amaechi

    Black lives
    John Amaechi: how the first NBA player to come out is now teaching us all about white privilege

    He first picked up a basketball in a Stockport gym at 17 – by 26 he was playing professionally in the US. Now a psychologist, he discusses life as a 6ft 9in teen, sport’s radical stars, and the backlash to his recent BBC video

August 2020

  • Statue of Cecil Rhodes at Oxford University

    Today in Focus
    Revisited: Britain's reckoning with its racist past

  • Roy Hackett (background manipulation by GNM Design)

    Black lives
    Roy Hackett: the civil rights hero who stood in front of a bus – and changed Britain for ever

June 2020

  • Black Lives Matter protests<br>Protesters pull down a statue of Edward Colston during a Black Lives Matter protest rally in College Green, Bristol, in memory of George Floyd who was killed on May 25 while in police custody in the US city of Minneapolis. PA Photo. Picture date: Sunday June 7, 2020. See PA story POLICE Floyd. Photo credit should read: Ben Birchall/PA Wire

    Today in Focus
    Britain's reckoning with its racist past

    UK Black Lives Matter protests have been taking place across the country. They have not just been about solidarity with the US or racism in Britain today, but also about the need to address Britain’s past and the impact of that legacy
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