Black History Month

October 24, 2019

Black History Month is an annual celebration which aims to raise awareness and recognise the contributions that people of African and Caribbean backgrounds have made to the world over many generations.

Today we are showcasing Doreen Delceita Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE who is a British Jamaican campaigner and the mother of Stephen Lawrence, a black British teenager who was murdered in a racist attack in South East London in 1993. She promoted reforms of the police service and founded the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust. She was appointed OBE for “services to community relations” in 2003, and was created a Life Peer in 2013. In January 2016, she was appointed to be Chancellor of De Montfort University, Leicester.

Don’t forget: To celebrate Black History Month, the BME Network will be hosting a desert island discs show on Sandwell Hospital Radio on Thursday 7 November, 12pm – 2pm.