A local education charity, DEED, came to Bournemouth University in honour of Black History Month to help educate and promote cultural diversity Dorset area.
Black Culture Fest was held on Wednesday in honour of Black history month.
The festival included different workshops and musical performances that showcased black culture and black history.
Louise Boston-Mammah, the Programme coordinator, said: “A lot of people living in this area they think there’s no depth to the black history here.
“We’re here to promote that we’re here and that we’re contributing to society.”
Lousie has been a part of the DEED team since 1998 and delivers workshops and training on multicultural Britain.
She said: “We wanted to meet this age of young people as we work a lot in schools and with under 18s.”
They hope to spread more insight on the history of black people in Dorset and show that “we do belong here.”
She added: “Recently there has been a lot of negative social media presence about migration at the moment.”
The charity has been around since the early 1980s and are based in Dorset. They aim to educate pupils about cultural differences in the wider world.
DEED hopes to continue to talk and educate more people in the local community.
They want to reframe the narrative of migration by taking that theme into schools with the right resources to teach pupils about challenging the myth circling around migration.
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