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This section presents a reference source on artists, scholars, associations, events and archives that had influenced black British cultural production from 1970 to 2001. Comedian Nina Wadia has worked in theater, radio and television. She has made guest appearances on several television shows, including Holby City and Vicar of Dibley. Daughter of a Nigerian mother and an English father, poet and musician Akure Wall grew up in Croydon, England. Formerly associated with the Urban Poets Society in London, Wall has developed a story-telling approach for her poetry performances, exploring political issues in terms of personal experience, like the search for black female role models.

This section presents a reference source on artists, scholars, associations, events and archives that had influenced black British cultural production from 1970 to 2001. Established in 1996 by Kadija George Sesay, Calabash is the only literary broadsheet serving writers and readers of African, Caribbean and Asian literature in Britain. It has become a valuable and inspirational instrument in the development of contemporary black British literature. The Camden Black Sisters was formed by Lee Kane and Yvonne Joseph during an Organisation of Women of Asian and African Descent conference in 1979 and is still in active existence. The group continues to provide a library for black women who wants to explore black history, offers rooms for groups to meet, and arranges performing art workshops, conferences and seminars. Hazel V. Carby is professor of African and American Studies at Yale University. Working at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham in England, Carby published her influential essay entitled, White Women Listen! Black Feminism and the Boundaries of Sisterhood. The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham has played a role in institutionalizing, defining and shaping the projects of cultural studies in Britain since it was founded in 1964.