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In 2005, Phyll Akua Opoku-Gyimah took a busload of queer Black women to Southend-on-Sea for a weekend escape and it was there that the idea for a UK Black Pride was born. Known as Lady Phyll, the UK Black Pride co-founder talks about why Pride and a UK Black Pride is necessary. The activist also speaks from personal experience of not seeing herself represented in mainstream events and what it feels like to see thousands of people reflecting all walks of life at UK Black Pride.

We are praised as a bastion of progressiveness, but Black members are too often victims of racism from within, Olivia Andrews writes.