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#BlackLivesMatter: Where do we go from here?

Whole-school issues Senior leadership Teaching staff
The Black Lives Matter movement has led to a year of immense change, but there have also been devastating set-backs. Angelina Idun asks where are we now in the fight for equality – and what questions must schools be asking as the new year begins?


If @Oprah Winfrey is reading this, I hope she will not mind me taking as my title the title of a conversation she led following the tragic murder of George Floyd in May 2020. The conversation featured Oprah’s discussions with high-profile Black thought leaders, activists and artists. Over several months this was among the programmes I watched, books and articles I read, and events I participated in that gave me hope that the change I am impatient for was coming.

It has been more than a year since I watched that programme and pushed myself beyond my comfort zone, adding my voice to the protest by writing about Black Lives Matter (Idun, 2020). The year has been one of immense change, challenge, and uncertainty. As Vladimir Ilyich Lenin said: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

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