Combatting Anti-Black Racism in British Schools and Universities

Speaker: Kehinde Andrews, Birmingham City University

Kehinde Andrews is one of the founding professors in the department of Black Studies at Birmingham City University in the U.K. He will discuss his research on the Black Supplementary School Movement and the struggle to create Black Studies in British Universities. His scholarship and activism in both of these areas will be discussed as part of a larger effort to combat anti-black racism in the context of British education.

Kehinde is an academic, activist and author whose books include Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century (2018). His first book was Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement (2013).

Kehinde led leading the development of the Black Studies degree and is director of the Centre for Critical Social Research; founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity; and co-chair of the Black Studies Association.

This is the first of three lectures for the “Black Studies & Education Research” speaker series hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Department of African and African American Studies, and the Universities: Past, Present and Future, a Mahindra Humanities Seminar.