Social enterprise, The Black Curriculum, works to equip young people with a sense of identity and the tools for navigating a diverse landscape by addressing the lack of Black British history in the national curriculum.

Learning Black history should not be a choice but a fact of education, says the organisation’s founder, Lavinya Stennett.

Lavinya spoke to Nesta’s Dalia Ben-Galim about how Black history should be taught all year round, and how an Eurocentric curriculum does not reflect the multiethnic country we are living in.

Speakers

Dalia Ben-Galim

Dr Dalia Ben-Galim is Interim Mission Director at Nesta. She is also a policy and research consultant who specialises in employment and family policy. Prior to freelancing, Dalia was Director of Policy, Advice and Communications at Gingerbread, the charity that supports single parents, and before that Associate Director at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) leading the organisation’s work on employment and families. Dalia holds a DPhil in social policy from the University of Oxford.