Black history

Tommie Smith and John Carlos, gold and bronze medalists in the 200-metre run at the 1968 Olympic Games, engage in a victory stand protest against unfair treatment of blacks in the United States. They refuse to recognise the American flag and national anthem. (Getty Images)

The fight for Black America

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Black British history and Charles I’s children . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black American civil rights leader Martin Luther King (1929 - 1968) addresses crowds during the March On Washington at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC, where he gave his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Is Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ the greatest speech in history?

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Crusade logistics and the battle over the slave trade . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Pacific War and First World War black soldiers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Anglo-Saxon saints and British slave-owners . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Malcolm X chats with Eric Abrahams – the Oxford Union president who vowed to “fill the room with blacks” – before giving his famous address on 3 December 1964. (Getty)

Malcolm X in Oxford: Black power amid dreaming spires

Left to right: David Oyelowo plays Martin Luther King, Jr. and Carmen Ejogo plays Coretta Scott King in SELMA, from Paramount Pictures and Pathé.

“He was so much more than that speech”: David Oyelowo on playing Martin Luther King in upcoming blockbuster Selma

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Portrait of Miranda Kaufmann. (Image by Jeni Nott)

History explorer: Africans in Tudor and Stuart Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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African history special . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Historian at the Movies: 12 Years a Slave reviewed . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Idris Elba (Nelson Mandela) in Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Historian at the Movies: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom reviewed . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nelson and Winnie Mandela days after his release, 1990. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis)

Nelson Mandela: “a symbol of the struggle against racism”

18th-century slave uprising

The three Kenyans who were tortured by British forces in the 1950s are joined by supporters at a demonstration outside the Royal Courts of Justice. (BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images)

History on trial