BHC Season 15 - links to recordings to be added ....
11 7 2025 Elliott Maddox updated us on the progress of the new BHC website and we discussed the next steps for BHC.
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We discussed planning to include reference to sources of information re: Black History eg
Academia:
https://www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Atlantic_Slave_Trade?swp=tc-ri-38291195
and the Guardian page:
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4 7 2025. Dr Kirt Henry, Director of the Institutue of Jamaica / Jamaica Memory Bank spoke about Revivalism - as a researcher and practioner.
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27 6 2025 The Conversation today focussed on the Windrush Generation story and the challenges still faced today by those caught up in the Home Office Scandal, led by Garrick Prayogg, founder of Justice for Windrush Generations.
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20 6 25 - It was with real sadness that we heard of Sir Geoff Palmer's passing - he was a great and supportive friend of Black History Conversations - join Dr Vivian Crawford, Garrick Prayogg and Liz Millman to remember his kindness and the fantastic work he did professionally and as a historian. Please refer to ....
https://university.open.ac.uk/scotland/news/blogs/GeoffPalmer
And there are so many tributes and other links online
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13 6 25 - we welcomed 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 Fowell Buxton, an Antislavery Abolitionist, gave Jamaica to establish Mico College - and who followed William Wilberforce to lead the UK campains that eventually abolished slavery.
Black History Conversations started again in Jan 2025 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).
