Find out how you can get up to £5000 for a project, activity or residential through the Hackney Youth Opportunity Fund. For anyone aged 8 - 19 (up to 25 if you have support needs).
Zion, a member of the Hackney Children in Care Council, OVOC, Chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group on Looked-after Children. Read more here
posted by: Lavinia Gyamfuah
Black History Month commemorates a period in history in the African Diaspora. People from various denominations gather to learn, embrace and reflect on the past occurrences that aided the position of their present. Americans and Canadians celebrate this event in February, whereas the British and Northern Irish honour this occasion during October.
Carter G. Woodson a renowned historian and scholar of black history founded Negro History Week. Woodson was concerned that African American artists’ were terribly overlooked. This led to his quest to ensure equality amongst black artists. The week is usually celebrated in conjunction with Abraham Lincoln, (the sixteenth president of the United States) and Frederick Douglass, (a social reformer) birth dates. Fortunately this week escalated into Black History Month and developed the status of undervalued minorities in society. This notion has only been solidified in the twentieth century.
Race prejudice is merely the logical result of tradition, the inevitable outcome of thorough instruction to the effect that the Negro has never contributed anything to the progress of mankind. Carter G. Woodson
To find out about the ongoing events in Hackney click here.
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