Black Tudors – Black History Month (USA)
SGUK Podcast : Episode 35– Black History Month – Black Tudors
Their Existence & Their Achievements
This weeks podcast is part of Black History Month in the USA. The UK version takes place in the Autumn, throughout October.
As this podcast channel encompasses global issues, and as it is based in the UK, I am honouring the USA Black History month, and covering the UK origin of the channel, by opting to highlight and celebrate the achievements of black people based in the UK around the Tudor period.
The Tudor period was between 1485 -1603. To put this era into perspective consider a few major figures and events of the time. Christopher Columbus was serving up insurmountable destruction on the “New World”. The Transatlantic Slave trade was born. Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel. Henry VIII, well you know; doing his thing. Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince, and The Art of War, amongst others, and Elizabeth I became queen.
Now we have a clearer idea of...