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Black British Male Youtubers Series for Black History Month

  • Michael Akuagwu
With every Black History Month I like to try and do something to celebrate the period. In 2015, while being part of the Sheffield Black and Minority Ethnic Students' Committee we had a daily dedication campaign where we celebrated various figures of African and Carribean descent.
For 2017 I wanted to highlight and celebate a group of Youtubers who are really hard to find. Black British Males. Through various conversations with friends and searches on Twitter I realised a lot of people didn't know where to find Black Male British Youtubers. This led me to create a Twitter video campaign which consisted of a thread of 21 Black Male British Youtubers with short bios about their channels and answers to questions relating to subject matter of the black community within the UK.
Below is the whole series. Available on Youtube.
21 Episodes
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