Black Lives Matter

UCL’s Access and Widening Participation Office believes Black Lives Matter. We stand in support and solidarity with our Black colleagues and young people that we work with.

Our team have been having a discussion about the resources that have been helpful to us. The following list is non-exhaustive and has been compiled by recommendations from the staff in our team. We would love to hear your recommendations too.

UCL’s Access and Widening Participation Office

 

Books

• Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
• Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
• Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Taking up Space: A Black Girl’s Manifesto for Change by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi
• Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde
• Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
• Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
• The Good Immigrant edited by Nikesh Shukla
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

TV

• 13^th – documentary on Netflix and also available for free on YouTube
• Lots of subscription tv services have collated lists of documentaries for Black Lives Matter
• Sitting In Limbo – BBC

Podcasts

• About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Code Switch
• Leading Routes podcast

Organisations, campaigns and other resources

• Leading Routes – an initiative that aims to prepare the next generation of Black academics, and their ‘Broken Pipeline’ research report.
• The Black Curriculum – a social enterprise founded in 2019 by young people to address the lack of Black British history in the UK Curriculum.
• Cambridge Union debate with James Baldwin – video on YouTube
• gal-dem – a print and online publication committed to sharing perspectives from women and non-binary people of colour
• UCL’s Legacies of British Slave-ownership – a database where you can learn about how your local area benefitted from slave ownership and compensation upon its abolition.
• Generating Genius – supporting talented young Black students into STEM careers.