October is Black History Month

October is Black History Month. This national celebration aims to promote and celebrate Black contributions to British society, and to foster an understanding of Black history.

A broad range of activities and events are taking place in October to celebrate Black History Month. The campaign theme for Black History Month 2023 is Celebrating our Sisters / Saluting our Sisters / Matriarchs of Movements 

Here’s a selection of the rich resources to support Black History Month.

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Evidence summaries

We provide evidence to inform patient care, service improvement, research and clinical teaching. Recent searches we’ve carried out include: 

• Effectiveness of anti-racism, allyship and unconscious bias training relating to ethnicity.
• Impact of staff ethnicity in aspects of primary care delivery.
• Survey of discrimination and racism in Primary Care.
• Does efficacy of treatment for depression in adults differ across ethnicity?
• Impact of the Stress of Racism.
• Vaccine Uptake / Hesitancy – differences by gender (age 20-40) and ethnic minorities.
• BME contributions in the NHS medical and nursing professions
• Updates on BAME NHS staff.

Web and other resources 

Ballet Black

Neo-classical ballet company that celebrates dancers of Black and Asian descent:

Black Ballad

UK based platform that seeks to tell the human experience through eyes of black British women:

Black History Month Magazine

Leading the celebration of Black History, Arts and Culture throughout the UK:

Brap

This charity supports organisations and communities to transform the way that they think and do equality.

They provide training, online learning and organisational development services:

Brap has also established a learning network for people who are involved in EDI work:

Fearless Futures

This organisation provides tailored training to help build individual and organisational understanding of inequality and power relations:

Hexitime

Skill exchange and timebank for improving the quality of health and care services across the UK.

Sign up and join the campaign to create a Community of Opportunity to support BAME colleagues in the workplace by offering mentoring, support and interview coaching:

Melanin Medics

This non-profit is focused on supporting African and Caribbean aspiring medics, medical students and doctors in the UK. It aims to implement positive solutions to help overcome under-representation and economic barriers in medicine:

The Other Box

Award-winning diversity and inclusion company educating businesses on bias and educating and empowering people to work and live more inclusively:

The Runnymede Trust

The UK’s leading independent race equality thinktank:

Events   

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What’s happening for Black History month at UHSussex

Sussex Health and Care

Health and care organisations across Sussex are marking Black History Month with a public show of support for our communities and our workforce.

All partner organisations in Sussex Health and Care Integrated Care System have signed up to a new anti-racism statement to mark the nationwide event.

The statement recognises the contribution and value of all members of the health and care workforce across Sussex, and makes a clear commitment to supporting them and standing against racism in all its forms.

To mark Black History Month, health and care partners will also be delivering a series of planned events and training for its staff, as well as the opportunity for staff, family and friends to learn more about Sussex’s local black history on a dedicated bus tour led by Bert Williams MBE, President and co-founder of Brighton & Hove Black History Month.

As part of the events, we have launched a new podcast with Bert sharing more about the local historical contributions of ethnically diverse communities across Sussex:

Social media

Follow @BHMUK and #BlackHistoryMonth on Twitter/X and BlackHistoryMonthUK on Facebook for the latest events and information.