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Clive Sullivan rugby player #BlackHistoryMonth

24th October 2017|Categories: Black History Month, Blog, Sport|

A Great Britain and Wales international winger, Clive Sullivan played with both Hull and Hull Kingston Rovers in his career, and also played for Oldham, and Doncaster. He was the first black captain of the Great Britain Lions and for any national British sporting side. Clive A. Sullivan MBE (born

Muhammed Ali boxer #BlackHistoryMonth

23rd October 2017|Categories: Black History Month, Blog, Sport|

Muhammed Ali was ‘more than just a Boxer’. He was a Black, Muslim man in Pre-Civil Rights Era America and he would go on to be an activist for the remainder of his life. Erasing these facts not only erases his importance to Black people worldwide, but the prejudice and

Jesse Owens athlete #BlackHistoryMonth

22nd October 2017|Categories: Black History Month, Blog, Sport|

In 1936 African American sprinter Jesse Owens amazed the world by breaking Olympic records and winning four gold medals in Berlin, the headquarters of Hitler’s Nazi regime. However, Owens became known not only for his athletic triumphs, but for his friendship with German competitor Luz Long and for the social

Time To Change Leeds Champions Fund

21st October 2017|Categories: Equality and Diversity, News|

The Champions Fund is here! Lets change the way Leeds thinks about mental health. What is the Champions Fund? The fund is available for people with lived experience of mental health problems to run their own anti-stigma activities. What types of activities could I run? You can run any sort of

Head Space: Beat Stress! Get motivated! Make a new start!

20th October 2017|Categories: Events, News|

“Other people have noticed a big difference in me. I am a lot happier, they can’t believe the change.” “I enjoyed the whole course! Got a lot of ways of releasing stress, it’s helped with anxiety issues a lot. Also about thinking positively and I’ve been more confident.” “The experience

Margaret Busby publisher #BlackHistoryMonth

19th October 2017|Categories: Art, Black History Month, Blog|

Born in Accra in the Gold Coast to parents with roots in Barbados, Trinidad and Dominica, she became Britain’s youngest and first Black woman book publisher, when in 1967 she co-founded Allison & Busby with Clive Allison (1944-2011). “We started off with virtually no money and thought we would go