“We can’t put our trust in a system that doesn’t hear us”
Major survey on Black British life launched by Cambridge University, I-Cubed Ltd and The Voice newspaper
Story: Fred Lewsey
Girl at a Black Lives Matter protest in Liverpool, UK, in 2020.
A national survey is launching today as part of a wider research project investigating the “evolution of Black British identities”.
The team behind it say the research will give Black people in the UK an opportunity to “define themselves in an autonomous way” for the very first time.
The Black British Voices Project (BBVP), a partnership between the University of Cambridge’s Sociology Department, the black-led consultancy I-Cubed Ltd, and Britain’s only national Black newspaper The Voice. Their aim is to provide an updated portrait of Black Britishness – and British Blackness – for the 21st century.
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Idler magazine editor Tom Hodgkinson and your host will be Idler Academy director Victoria Hull. We’ll be talking about punk, Solange Knowles, Black Britishness and the freedom to be yourself.
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