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ASKaND celebrates that interconnected Caribbean family, showing that pride in your origins can still leave room at the table for your Caribbean neighbours.
Black History Month is often associated with lectures, exhibitions, and community events. At St John the Divine in Kennington, however, it took a far more powerful form: worship. Harvest Festival Mass became an occasion not only to give thanks for God’s provision but also to reflect on the experiences, contributions, and continuing challenges Britain’s Black communities have faced.
Stephen’s extraordinary gift arrived without words because, as a child, he had none. Diagnosed with autism at age three, Stephen was completely mute and had difficulty connecting with the environment around him
When the First World War began, Walter set aside his football career and enlisted in the Football Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment. He rose quickly through the ranks, served in France, endured shell shock, returned to duty, and fought in the Somme.
In the mid-twentieth century, a grand Victorian townhouse at 1 Collingham Gardens in Earl’s Court, London, contained a secret.
His Barbadian heritage, through parents John and Janice Stevenson, forms part of the cultural foundation.
As Barbados marks 60 years of Independence in 2026, and just a few years after becoming a Republic in 2021, a quiet cultural revolution is unfolding in the voices of ordinary Barbadians.
Barbados is small, 430 square kilometres. Already by the 1650s and 1660s, it was one of the most densely populated places in the Atlantic region. Today in the Americas, only Bermuda and St. Martin have a higher population-to-land ratio.
Jacqueline Devonish comes from a more diverse background. Born in South London to Barbadian parents, she is a mother of four sons. In 2022, she became the UK’s first Black female HM Senior Coroner for Cheshire.
Her portrait has appeared in a new artwork currently on display at the National Portrait Gallery as part of Artists First: Contemporary Perspectives on Portraiture, a year-long installation supported by the CHANEL Culture Fund that features commissions from nine contemporary artists.