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Shireen Nishat Akbar (1944–1997)
The educationist Shireen Nishat Akbar developed a series of ambitious community arts projects that encouraged south Asian groups throughout Britain to visit museums and observe the relevance of the collections to their own lives.
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Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow (1929–2020)
The educationist, race relations campaigner, and public servant Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow was a leading advocate for multicultural education and in 1981 became the first Black woman governor of the BBC.
This month’s update adds one new article surveying 75 South Asian lives in the Oxford DNB over the past 400 years; and one updated article that reviews 297 Black lives, ranging over fifteen centuries.
