{"id":276,"date":"2025-09-29T11:09:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T10:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/?p=276"},"modified":"2025-09-30T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T10:07:07","slug":"black-history-month-2025-standing-firm-in-power-and-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/09\/29\/black-history-month-2025-standing-firm-in-power-and-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month 2025 from the Templeman Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Standing firm in power and pride<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Join the Templeman Library in celebrating 2025&#8217;s Black History Month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/rl.talis.com\/3\/kent\/lists\/BCFD7F12-9428-56F3-584A-7B8007F6AE76.html?lang=en-GB&amp;login=1\">resources list,<\/a> featuring 120 books, films, websites, and classic and modern fiction and non-fiction, from all over the world which explore what it means to be Black both historically and in the world today.<\/p>\n<p>The theme this year is &#8216;standing firm in power and pride&#8217; and we have added a whole new exciting section on this for you to check out.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these books are available to borrow from the Templeman or the Drill Hall Libraries and will be on display throughout October.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-484\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/files\/2025\/09\/bhm25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3062\" height=\"4230\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If ebooks and audio books are more your bag then you can choose from our curated selection for Black History month via <a href=\"https:\/\/libbyapp.com\/library\/kentuni\/curated-1382807\/page-1\">Libby<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2024\/09\/bhm-libby.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26209\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/isnews\/files\/2024\/09\/bhm-libby.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1100\" height=\"554\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Visit our Caribbean &amp; African literature\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>To celebrate this month, we want to highlight the profound contributions to literature from Africa and the Caribbean in our\u00a0<strong>Language &amp; Literature Hub.\u00a0<\/strong>This complements our<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/09\/29\/black-history-month-2025-standing-firm-in-power-and-pride\/\">wider Black History Month Display<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in the Welcome Hall. Read more about it here <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/student-news\/2025\/09\/29\/celebrating-caribbean-african-literature\/\">Celebrating Caribbean &amp; African Literature \u2013 Student News<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Get involved!<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Is a book missing? Students and staff members have the option to submit a reading suggestion via the <a href=\"https:\/\/help.kent.ac.uk\/tas\/public\/ssp\/content\/serviceflow?unid=2a3c4f158bcb406eb1022b2623f181fc\">\u2018Recommend a Book\u2019 form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Share your views on what you are reading with #unikentbookclub <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">#BHMKent2025 <\/span>on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unikentlibraryit\/\">Instagram <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UniKentLibraryIT\">Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We believe that black history past and present should be represented in our collections <strong>all year round<\/strong> so if you have other resources you would like to share please feel free to post in the comments below, so that we can look to enrich and broaden collections and resources.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing firm in power and pride Join the Templeman Library in celebrating 2025&#8217;s Black History Month. 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