Often smudged out of history lessons, the layered, complex and victorious stories of black people in the United Kingdom were celebrated by the BBC via a series of documentaries this month.
They fell under the umbrella ‘Black & British.’
Thanks to the platform, and our friends over at ‘Shadow and Act’, you can now watch over eight hours worth of programming built for the series which stars the supermodel Naomi Campbell.
Watch below…
— Next, presented by David Harewood, “Will Britain Ever Have A Black Prime Minister?” offers a hard-hitting statistical analysis of getting to the top professions:
— “Life And Death The Pentecostal Way” is an observational documentary featuring a Brixton Pentecostal church and its community:
— “Black Is The New Black” features some of the most influential and talented black Britons facing the camera and describing what it is like to be black and British today. It’s a 4-part series, but only the first 3 episodes are available at the moment:
— Next, “Back In Time For Brixton” follows a family as they are whisked through the decades in south London, from Windrush in 1948 to today.
— BBC Four’s “Roots Reggae Rebellion,” presented by rapper and poet Akala, examines the history and impact of Reggae music in Jamaica and Britain.
— “Young, Gifted And Classical: The Making Of A Maestro” tells the story of the extraordinary musical family of Sheku Kanneh-Mason, winner of BBC Young Musician 2016.
— “Black Nurses: The Women Who Saved the NHS” tells the story of the thousands of Caribbean and African women who answered the call 70 years ago to come to the UK to save the then ailing health service.