By Joy Sigaud COVID 19 – The British Black have a long charted history of contributing to major milestones in British society and must be acknowledged for their roles. Over 3.25million cases of Covid 19 worldwide. We have all seen the figures for Europe it’s always in the news but Africa, continent of a […]
Diabetes disproportionately affects the Afro-Caribbean and African community in the UK. Award winning Michael Williams is an highly motivational Healthy Lifestyle Coach with a passion for helping people to make healthy lifestyle choices. With 18 years of working as a fitness professional, and a background in Nutrition and Psychology, he approaches health in a holistic […]
Across the UK, arts organisations, museums and theatres are unveiling innovative digital plans to ensure culture and creativity is accessible for all. Online offerings to the public set to increase over the coming weeks thanks to Arts Council England’s £160m support package and the DCMS funded Digital Culture Network. Over the past week, arts and […]
It’s the International Decade for people of African Descent and we have certainly made waves in so many areas. We’ve seen a campaign for an increase in diversity begin to come to fruition in many sectors with more Black faces in the mainstream media than ever before, not to mention heads of corporations with almost […]
By Antonia Comrie. Is it abuse or is he just a very nice person…really, terribly clever, always doing good, but just a little bit highly strung and clingy? He’s not stalking me, he’s just ringing several times a day and keeping a close eye on what I’m doing because he has a genuine interest in […]
By A Prisoner in HMP Birmingham Thanks to the wonderful distribution network, Editions Lifestyle Magazine has reached many people including prisoners at HMP Birmingham and inspired by Black History Month we are publishing verbatim a story he wrote about Black people who served in the Great War and World War 2. On the 4th August […]
Award-winning author, broadcaster and columnist Gary Younge is joining The University of Manchester, after being appointed as a Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Sciences. The University is one of the UK’s major research institutions consistently ranked as one of the world’s elite for graduate employability. Gary, who speaks several languages has been […]
By Hugh Sherriffe Regional Director Barnado’s I began my career at Barnardo’s in 1989 – two years after the UK’s first Black History Month. I joined the charity because I wanted to make a difference. Growing up Black in Birmingham, gave me an understanding of societal injustices and a steely determination to root out […]
For Black History Month 2019 Editions Lifestyle Black History Matters list just some of the wonderful array of activities and events. There’s more than enough around to fill any diary, whatever your preference: Africa: Did You Know? A Hip-Hop Musical. Music4Causes is a hip-hop musical theatre featuring rapper Kimba. Followed by Q&A + […]
Rachel Brown, Joy Sigaud, H.E. Seth Ramocan, Lady Colin Campbell
Lorna Holder, Joyce Fraser, Sonia Ceasar
Errollyn Wallen, Natasha Graham
Rachel Brown, Joyce Fraser
Lorna Holder
Earle Scarlett, Dawn Hill, H.E. Seth Ramocan
Akua Gyamfi, Pyhia Robinson
Siobhan Aarons
Joy Sigaud, Ann-Marie Pinkney
Wayne Nembhard, Roxanne St Claire
Sherrie Coutain-Brown, Devina Nembhard
Leighton Smith, Errol Holder, Errol Drummond
Serena Lee Assistant Editor
Mark Redfern, Sonya Knight
The Magazines
Christine Cazenave, Marinella Franks
Lift in Design Museum
Carolyne Hill’s Global Image Campaign
To celebrate the launch of Editions Lifestyle Black History Month Magazine 2019, Founder and Editor Joy Sigaud hosted a reception sponsored by the Design Museum in Kensington London of Friday 4th October. H.E High Commissioner Seth Ramocan and Head of Communications at 10 Downing Street Rachel Brown each gave excellent heart warming speeches. Here are […]
Head of BME Communications Rachel Brown at No. 10 introduced a new theme to the 2019 Black History Month reception. There was a wonderful array of stalls displaying a variety of products from the manufacturing, catering, music and fashion sectors with an impressive number of young entrepreneurs from the BME community attending as well as […]
It is my honour and pleasure to warmly greet the readers of this Black History Month magazine as we celebrate and highlight Black History Month 2019. The month of October is also observed in Jamaica as National Heritage Month, when we pay homage to our six national heroes and one heroine, whose rich contributions […]
Welcome! Get a copy of the first, original concept, content and design, souvenir issue of Editions Lifestyle Black History Month Magazine 2019 on 1st October free with the Evening Standard at Oxford Circus and 11 other tube stations around London. It is also be available from selected leading Sainsbury Stores, Tesco and Asda in and […]
Having edited two of the foremost magazines for Black History in the UK, editor Joy Sigaud recognised there was no publication representing the general black population that was neither politically motivated nor constantly justifying and proving the mere existence of the African, Afro-Caribbean and mixed Afro population in the UK. Historically there were one or […]
By Joy Sigaud The celebrations and commemorations continue as we approach the end of the 60th Anniversary Year of the most successful record label of all time. As Hitsville The Making of Motown, a new film about the iconic organisation has been screening in the US and in the UK, we can’t help but remember […]
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