Good morning. In Reni Eddo-Lodge’s seminal book Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, she laments that while most Britons can recall the Montgomery bus boycott from the US civil rights movement, few know of the Bristol bus boycott that took place at a similar time. Many remain unaware that Britain had its own civil rights movement.
In 2020, Eddo-Lodge became the first Black British author to top the UK book charts, as readers reached for her work during the global uprising sparked by the killing of George Floyd. Protesters chanted that Black history is British history, demanding a reckoning with the country’s own struggles over race and injustice.
