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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Matt Roper & Lydia Veljanovski

'It's time we recognise Black history is British history and MUST be taught in schools'

Sir Lenny Henry is backing a Daily Mirror campaign launched today calling for the teaching of Black history to be made compulsory in our schools.

The actor and comedian, 64, says it is time to “acknowledge that Black history is part of almost every part of British history”.

He adds: "Black history needs to be part of the national curriculum – if it isn’t, we get a distorted, inaccurate picture of Britain’s past."

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