[vc_row up_bg_fix=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1790679810377{background-image: url(https:\/\/bridgeblackstudies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Header222.jpg?id=2163) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” up_overlay_row=”#2d3d25″][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”60″][vc_custom_heading text=”BRIDGE” font_container=”tag:h1|font_size:220px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:220px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
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Our Pillars |Our Approach | <\/strong>Our Founders | <\/strong>Our Vision<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”90px” emsmh=”25px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1419509173508{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n ABOUT BRIDGE<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1790338393491{padding-top: 20px !important;}”]<\/p>\n BRIDGE is the Black Studies Research, Impact, Diaspora and Global Education Centre \u00a0a community-focused organisation founded by Professor Kehinde Andrews and Dr Dionne Taylor.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_section css=”.vc_custom_1790339550149{padding-top: 30px !important;background-color: #c18825 !important;}”][vc_row up_overlay_row=”#c18825″][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1790678932769{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_section][vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1790680233841{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Our ambition is to strengthen the infrastructure for Black Studies within and beyond universities. This includes developing a Global Black Studies curriculum, supporting community-led research, creating educational programmes and building equitable international partnerships.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1419509257166{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/4″][modo_icon_single iconanimateds=”faa-horizontal animated-hover” iconsmalls=”small” icon_texts=”ti-bookmark” iconcolors=”#ffffff” iconcolors_bg=”#2d3d25″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1790679347474{padding-top: 12px !important;}”]<\/p>\n Producing rigorous, community-engaged and transformative Black Studies research that contributes to knowledge, policy and practice.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][modo_icon_single iconanimateds=”faa-horizontal animated-hover” iconsmalls=”small” icon_texts=”ti-bookmark” iconcolors=”#ffffff” iconcolors_bg=”#6e7634″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1790679424433{padding-top: 12px !important;}”]<\/p>\n Developing accessible and innovative Black Studies education that connects scholarship, critical learning and real-world application..<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][modo_icon_single iconanimateds=”faa-horizontal animated-hover” iconsmalls=”small” icon_texts=”ti-bookmark” iconcolors=”#ffffff” iconcolors_bg=”#c18825″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1790679442017{padding-top: 12px !important;}”]<\/p>\n Building reciprocal relationships that recognise Black communities as knowledge producers, partners and agents of change.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][modo_icon_single iconanimateds=”faa-horizontal animated-hover” iconsmalls=”small” icon_texts=”ti-bookmark” iconcolors=”#ffffff” iconcolors_bg=”#9a2916″][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1790679478698{padding-top: 12px !important;}”]<\/p>\n Building relationships across Britain, Africa, the Caribbean, the United States and the wider Black diaspora.<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1415877871740{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1790338746291{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1415718491866{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][modo_team_box_two teamname_two=”Professor Kehinde Andrews” teamjob_two=”Founder” image_two=”2294″]Professor Kehinde Andrews is a leading scholar of Black Studies, race and racism. He was the founding professor of Black Studies in the UK and has played a central role in establishing the field within British higher education.[\/modo_team_box_two][vc_column_text]His work examines Black radical politics, institutional racism, colonialism and the global structures that reproduce racial inequality. He is an experienced educator, author, researcher and public commentator who has brought Black Studies to audiences within universities, schools, prisons, community organisations and the wider public.<\/p>\n At BRIDGE, Kehinde leads on strategic development, Black Studies education, public engagement and the organisation\u2019s financial and operational sustainability.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][modo_team_box_two teamname_two=”Dr Dionne Taylor” image_two=”2293″ teamjob_two=”Founder”]Dr Dionne Taylor is a Black Studies scholar, researcher and educator specialising in intersectionality, Black British women\u2019s experiences, mental and sexual health, racialised trauma, student wellbeing and community-engaged research.[\/modo_team_box_two][vc_column_text]She is the creator of ICEPAR, an intersectional and participatory framework that brings together community engagement, accountability, reflexivity and an ethics of care. Her work connects research with lived experience to develop culturally meaningful approaches to education, wellbeing and social change.<\/p>\n Dionne is a former Associate Professor of Sociology and Black Studies and previously led the MA Black Studies and Global Justice. She was also a Fulbright Global Challenges Teaching Award scholar in Racial Justice.<\/p>\n At BRIDGE, Dionne leads on research, curriculum development, community engagement, evaluation and international partnerships[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row up_bg_fix=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1790679827753{background-color: #2d3d25 !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” up_overlay_row=”rgba(31,40,47,0.45)”][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”Our Approach” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1790680282162{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n BRIDGE is guided by the principles of Liberation Engagement and the ICEPAR framework: Intersectionality, Community Engagement, Participatory Action, Accountability, Reflexivity and an Ethics of Care.<\/span><\/p>\n This means that the people and communities affected by our work are not treated simply as participants or beneficiaries. They are valued as partners, knowledge-holders and co-creators.<\/span><\/p>\n We believe Black Studies should do more than describe inequality. It should provide the knowledge, relationships and practical tools needed to transform it.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Our Vision” font_container=”tag:h1|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1790680289290{padding-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n Our vision is a world in which Black knowledge, histories and lived experiences are recognised as essential to education, policy and social transformation.<\/span><\/p>\n Through research, education, community partnership and global collaboration, BRIDGE is building sustainable pathways for Black Studies to make a lasting difference across generations.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”120px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”full”][vc_column][modo_separator sepopt=”shape” sepshape=”trianglex” shapecol=”#ffffff” shapecolb=”#9a2916″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1790680474553{padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;background-color: #9a2916 !important;}” font_color=”#ffffff”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n BRIDGE Mission<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css_animation=”bounceIn” css=”.vc_custom_1790680704978{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]<\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1790680482361{background-color: #9a2916 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1790680625427{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”]<\/p>\n Our mission is to bring together Black scholarship, community knowledge and lived experience to challenge structural inequalities, strengthen communities and create meaningful social, institutional and policy change.<\/span><\/p>\n Grounded in Liberation Engagement and operationalised through ICEPAR, we work through equitable partnerships, co-creation, critical enquiry and an ethics of care to connect knowledge with action<\/span><\/p>\n [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row up_bg_fix=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1790679810377{background-image: url(https:\/\/bridgeblackstudies.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Header222.jpg?id=2163) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}” up_overlay_row=”#2d3d25″][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”60″][vc_custom_heading text=”BRIDGE” font_container=”tag:h1|font_size:220px|text_align:center|color:%23ffffff|line_height:220px” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text] About Us [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1790338304676{padding-top: 10px !important;}”] Our Pillars |Our Approach | Our Founders | Our Vision [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”90px” emsmh=”25px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1419509173508{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-bottom: 60px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text] ABOUT BRIDGE [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] “Each one, teach one” [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1790338393491{padding-top: 20px !important;}”] BRIDGE is the Black Studies Research, Impact, Diaspora and Global Education Centre \u00a0a community-focused organisation founded by Professor Kehinde Andrews and Dr Dionne Taylor. 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We translate Black Studies into meaningful education, research and action. Our work connects academic knowledge, lived experience and community expertise to address racialQ inequality, strengthen Black communities and create opportunities for learning, collaboration and social change.<\/span><\/h3>\n
BRIDGE works across four interconnected pillars<\/h1>\n
RESEARCH<\/h4>\n
EDUCATION<\/h4>\n
COMMUNITY<\/h4>\n
GLOBAL IMPACT<\/h4>\n
Meet Our<\/h3>\n
Founders<\/h1>\n
BRIDGE exists to mobilise Black Studies for social transformation<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n