Colin Prescod

Over some five decades Colin Prescod has worked variously as an academic sociologist, documentary film maker (Black British community struggles against racism and for belonging), theatre maker, TV (BBC) commissioning editor, cultural animator (specifically in museums, archives, and heritage sector).  Notable 21st century exhibition credits include at the Museum of London (Docklands)  London, Sugar and Slavery permanent gallery(2007), at the Guildhall Art Gallery, London,  No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960–1990(2015) and, at the British Library, Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land (2018). He is Chair of the Council of the Institute of Race Relations, and a member of the Editorial Working Committee of the IRR’s journal ‘Race and Class’.