February 2021 First Friday with Black & Irish
News 23 February 2021
February First Friday with Boni Odoemene
To mark Black history month here in the US, our February First Friday event featured a conversation with one of the co-founders of Black and Irish, Boni Odoemene.
He told us about the founding of Black and Irish, born out of a wish to highlight the struggles and successes of Ireland’s Black and Mixed Race community. Using Ireland’s tradition of storytelling, he described it as a place to hear voices and stories of Irish society that many have not seen or heard before. He spoke also about his time in the US as a Washington Ireland Program participant and how that helped him to see the importance of conversation and of understanding the context in a country.