Black History Month — like every awareness holiday — isn’t about you as an ally. Don’t post on social media about all the amazing things you’ve done to uplift the Black community.

Black History Month wasn’t always a monthlong celebration. In February 1926, historian and author Carter G. Woodson created Negro History Week. It was a weeklong celebration in an effort to teach ...

and on the occasions when they are - such as Black History Month - it can feel negative, Americanised, or just centred on the Transatlantic Slave Trade or Windrush. Aisha emphasises it’s ...