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
August 2022
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January 2022
- Black lives‘We were made to feel like outcasts’: the psychiatrist who blew the whistle on racism in British medicineAggrey 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
May 2021
January 2021
December 2020
November 2020
- Black livesMinnijean Brown-Trickey: the teenager who needed an armed guard to go to schoolAs 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
- Black livesPaul Stephenson: the hero who refused to leave a pub – and helped desegregate BritainWhen 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
- Black livesJohn Amaechi: how the first NBA player to come out is now teaching us all about white privilegeHe 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
