The untold history of Britain’s black cultural leaders to be revealed in new photography exhibition

In celebration of the 70th anniversary of Empire Windrush’s arrival in the UK, a new photography exhibition will examine the unexplored history of Britain’s black community leaders.

Expectations: The Untold Story of Black British Community Leaders in the 1960s and 1970s will take over the entirety of the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton for nearly two months this summer.

The free exhibition will feature 70 images of men and women who shaped black British culture in the mid-twentieth century, with a focus on the first two decades after Windrush’s arrival.

The “live” exhibition, which will invite the community to respond to it through talks and debates, has been curated by photographer Neil Kenlock – a former official photographer for the British Black Panthers – and his daughter Emelia Kenlock.

Figures featured in the exhibition include broadcasters Darcus Howe and Steve Barnard, anti-discrimination campaigner Olive Morris, Baron of Hampstead Lord David Pitt, and Arthur Stanley Wint, Jamaica’s first Olympic gold medallist and former High Commissioner.

Expectations: The Untold Story of Black British Community Leaders in the 1960s and 1970s will run at the Black Cultural Archives from August 7 - September 28. For more information, visit blackculturalarchives.org