# 113 Ensuring a Black History Month 365 Approach

Welcome to the 113th episode of the award-winning Diverse Minds podcast. In today’s episode, I talk about ensuring a Black History Month 365 approach, as we draw towards the end of Black History Month and towards the season of winter.

In today’s show on

• What Black History Month 365 is all about. [00:54]
• Why you should care about Black History Month 365 approach. [01:17]
• Some ways I've seen some organisations wrongly approach Black History Month events. [02:00]
• What organisations can do to have a better Black History Month 365 approach. [03:05]
• Some ideas for organisations celebrating Black History Month for the first time. [09:06]

Quotes on

• Black History 365 is about conscious shift to truly understand black contributions, excellence and legacies in society today.
• if you want to change the usual way of doing things and set yourself ahead of the pack, you don't want to appear tokenistic.
• Black History Month is vital, and one month, much like South Asian History Month, is not enough to recognise the ongoing inequalities, inequity, history and truths.
• There's old fashioned language and there's hate speech.
• Tokenism isn't helpful. And although it may be done with the right intention, the impact can be harmful.

 Resources on

• Black History Cymru/Wales
• Celebrating Black History 365
• Black History Haringey 365
• Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
• Episode #9: How to organise meaningful Black History Month Events at work

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