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Lavinya Stennett on the importance of teaching Black history in schools<\/em><\/h2>\n
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Lavinya Stennett, 29, is founder and CEO of The Black Curriculum, an educational tool that enables young people across the UK \u2013 and beyond \u2013 to learn about the history of colonialism.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here, she shares what inspired the idea, why reparatory justice matters and the impact her organization is having on young people\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

In 2016, I received my A Level results. I didn\u2019t get my first-choice university, so went through clearing [how universities and colleges fill any places they still have on their courses]. I received a place at SOAS to do African Studies. I didn\u2019t know much about the university, but my mum insisted I go.<\/p>\n

The course changed my life. Prior to my degree, I hadn\u2019t been able to access any information around African history that was empowering or wasn\u2019t just focused on enslavement.<\/p>\n

I started learning from African lecturers and it was such a grounding experience. I received a scholarship to go to New Zealand, where I learned a lot about M\u0101ori\u00a0land law, as well as issues around the colonization and theft of land, and it just put everything into context.<\/p>\n

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The main aim of\u00a0 The Black Curriculum\u00a0is to empower all students with a sense of identity and belonging.<\/p>\n

Lavinya Stennett<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I realized that the UK hadn\u2019t had a national reckoning around its role in colonialism and the impact it\u2019s had on young people today. We often see Saturday schools and other forms of alternative Black education pop up, but there\u2019s nothing in the official curriculum \u2013 so that\u2019s how the Black curriculum was born.<\/p>\n

Inspiring a new generation<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The main aim of The Black Curriculum<\/a> is to empower all students with a sense of identity and belonging, allowing young people from all backgrounds to access knowledge on their cultural or national history.<\/p>\n

Our work primarily focuses on training teachers, working directly with young people, and campaigning because it is our aim to embed Black history into the national curriculum.<\/p>\n

We work with people across the education sector, as well as with people in prisons and museums to make sure they have access to our curriculum \u2013 so it\u2019s really about societal education for all young people.<\/p>\n

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Founder of The Black Curriculum Lavinya Stennett and Young Champion Ebere Okafur Whyte at the Wakati Wetu Festival in Kenya.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are so many things that inspired this idea. Initially, we started speaking to teachers directly and there were three schools in South London that were excited to work with us. Once we had worked in those schools, The Black Curriculum took on a life of its own. We were approached by teachers across London, as well as Manchester. Then, after George Floyd was killed, we were contacted by schools in Canada and the USA, eager to know how they could incorporate it into their curriculum.<\/p>\n

Our course is having an incredible impact across the world, and our reports from 2020 to 2024 show that students gain an improved sense of confidence from learning about their history once they\u2019ve completed our course \u2013 and this goes for both Black and white students.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t just have one scheme of work for the term that we give to teachers, we work with what they have. So, for example we have a zine our young people have created, as well as animations, podcasts and digital and physical learning resources.<\/p>\n

Why reparatory justice matters<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Through our course, I\u2019ve realized how important it is to continue to seek reparatory justice because the work we\u2019re doing around truth-telling in our histories and across the curriculum must lead to something. It\u2019s not just about retelling a long history for history\u2019s sake, it\u2019s about building a consciousness within the peoples of the world to shift structures and systems that are affecting us.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Reparations are about repairing the harms still taking place, as well as the harms that people of African descent have experienced, in particular. Enslavement has impacted our countries, our cultures, our languages, our everything.<\/p>\n

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Enslavement has impacted our countries, our cultures, our languages, our everything.<\/p>\n

Lavinya Stennett<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think it is about re-educating people truthfully about what\u2019s happened so that we can then think really clearly about what needs to be rectified for a better future.<\/p>\n

Aside from the obvious moral wrong, Britain and other colonial powers have a duty to readdress a lot of the ills that we see today from discrimination in access to healthcare to education disparities \u2013 and a lot of this stems from colonialism, so it needs to be brought under a framework of reparations.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m from Jamaica in the Caribbean, and for many people of African descent we don\u2019t know where we\u2019re from. Even if you do a DNA test, it doesn\u2019t even give you the specific community you\u2019re from, so it\u2019s about reconciling our cultural identities that were lost historically. Families were forced into migration when Britain brought back its \u201ccitizens\u201d from the colonies to help rebuild itself postwar and we were essentially forced into poverty \u2013 we didn\u2019t have a choice.<\/p>\n

Finding where I fit in<\/strong><\/h4>\n

I have always been attracted to history and the more social side of education, but I couldn\u2019t figure out where I fitted in. So going through primary school, secondary school and onto university, I had to go and find that for myself. I was lucky I had the opportunities I\u2019ve had, but there\u2019s people that haven\u2019t and will continue to stay lost and not have that sense of identity that their white counterparts may be privileged to have because they\u2019ve seen themselves in history and in the curriculum taught at school. We want everybody to be able to see themselves in what they\u2019re learning and use that to guide them forward and to build on themselves. To date we\u2019ve reached well over 25,000 educators and that\u2019s young people and teachers combined. We\u2019ve also amassed a huge following on social media.<\/p>\n

But outside of that, it\u2019s incredible to share our message across the world. I recently travelled to Ghana and Kenya, and connected with young people who understand the legacies of colonialism very well and are passionate and want to bring it back into a larger space.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a privilege, but it feels like a rite of passage that I\u2019m very honoured to walk on.<\/p>\n

In our series,\u00a0Voices of Reparatory Justice<\/strong>, we speak with artists, activists and leaders who share their stories of repair and resilience in fighting against the negative impacts of historical injustices, slavery, and colonialism. \u00a0Despite existential challenges, their journey to secure dignity and rights of racialised groups, restores hopes for our collective future, humanity must always prevail. This is one of those stories.\u00a0Find out more about our work.<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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