What is Prince of Peckham University ? Black History Walks has teamed up with the Prince of Peckham pub to offer high quality, educational talks by Black academics on a variety of subjects. Prince of Peckham is a black-owned venue offering high quality food, drink and entertainment. Black History Walks runs walks, talks, films, river cruises, helicopter and steam train tours on London’s Black history. All of our speakers hold doctorates, are Phd students or authors. Banned Black films screened by African Odysseys since 2007 with facts, statistics, reasons plus systemic racism @BFI Southbank The volunteer-run, African Odysseys film programme screened monthly, popular, anti-racist, Black films with Q&A’s for 17 years at the BFI. It regularly filled the Southbank 450 seater at 2pm on Saturdays when cinemas are typically ‘dead’. Some of the films African Odysseys screened have been literally banned. This presentation will go through at least 20 of them explaining what these films were about, why they were banned and the current methods of suppressing Black films that challenge stereotypes; including the BFI’s recent discriminatory behaviour toward grassroots Black films, even when they regularly sell-out cinemas . We will cover: Government agencies and their role in suppressing independent movie production.  

• Grassroots origins of African Odysseys: mentoring, museums, education
• Baldwin and Malcolm X the hidden stories
• ·How to ban a film without appearing to ban it
• ‘We don’t want a full house of Black people even if it will make us money’ with proof
• Where to access great African/Caribbean films
• Black Lives Matter: information suppression, the George Floyd backlash
• New platforms for viewing positive Black stories
• Institutional racism and performative ‘anti-racism’
• How Facebook and Instagram suppress positive Black content