FOLLOWING THE news that black history lessons will be mandatory in Wales, campaigners have started working to ensure that black people control the narrative.

Activists and academics have united on the groundbreaking I’m Representing Inclusive Educational Curriculum Consultancy (IECC) project which launches today (Monday April 12).

Soraya Cordle who founded the project, is also the Founder and Director of It’s Mandatory CIC, which aims to eradicate institutional racism in the education sphere. Her co-founder is children’s author and translator Jessica Dunrod – who also co-chairs Cardiff University’s Student Race Equality Steering Group.

Both single parents, the women have both worked tirelessly to help create a more equitable education system without funding or guidance from the Welsh government.

Now, Dunrod will work in collaboration with Welsh historian and black history scholar, Abu-Bakr Madden Al-Shabazz on a series of Geography and History textbooks.

The series will feature characters from the first black Welsh children’s authors books.

Resources in Literacy, PE (Physical Education), Engineering, Welsh and foreign language classes are also well underway. For the PE resources, the team have collaborated with Welsh commonwealth sprinter and Team GB (Great Britain) athlete Mica Moore.

Their hope is to distribute their resources to every school in Wales. However, they are in need of sponsors and investors to help them with the production costs to reach this ambitious goal.

Anyone who can be of assistance is encouraged to reach out to [email protected]

Black Africans and Caribbean’s make up less than 2% of the entire Welsh population according to I’m Representing Inclusive Educational Curriculum Consultancy (IECC).

Campaigners in England have also called for greater diversity in the curriculum.. Over 80,000 people signed a petition asking for diversity and racism to be added to all school curriculums. It was rejected.

A petition asking that Britain’s colonial past became a compulsory part of the curriculum received over 250,000 signatures.