BHC Season 15 May - July 2025
When? Every Friday at 01:30 PM London - at 8.30AM in Jamaica or what ever time it is - wherever you are.
Friday 13th June 25
This week we are welcoming Dr. Richard R. Follett, Professor of History Covenant College, Lookout Mountain, GA. to talk about Thomas Fowell Buxton in Conversation with Dr Vivian Crawford who is passionate about the support that thomas Fowel Buxton, an Antislavery Abolitionist who followed the campaigns led by William Wilberforce'
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83056128663?pwd=waWS0YXW3GddReLafY2w47xDRqPjop.1
Meeting ID: 830 5612 8663
Passcode: 843432
Black History Conversations started again in Jan 2025 at 1.30pm on Fridays or 8.30am in Jamaica or whatever time it is wherever you are in the world and we started this season with informal conversations. This has proved fascinating - never knowing who would joining to update us about their research - whether formal or informal.
One of the sessions brought Norbert Mbu-Mputu, who has been a supporter of Black History Conversations over the years, to speak about "Morel and the Congo Reform Association Revisited”? This outlined the atrocities, genocide, and/or holocaust in the DRC (Since 1996): drawing inspiration from Edmund Morel (1873-1924) and his anti-Leopold II's Congo Reform Association (1904-1913).
