Black British women making headlines

From news anchors to venture capitalists and community leaders, this small assemblage of Black British women shows the range fields in which Black women are achieving.

Vanessa Kingori MBE

The first female publisher of British Vogue, Vanessa overcame prejudice to take the fashion industry by storm. She also sits on the
fund investment committee for StartHER, a microfund created by the company behind the social networking app Peanut that focuses on investing in women and other historically excluded groups to tackle the challenges these people have in raising small-scale seed funding for their first business ventures.

Candice Carty-Williams

The first Black woman to win Book of the Year at the British Book Awards with her novel “Queenie”, Carty-Williams has also written for newspapers including The Guardian and The Sunday Times. Told by her teachers that she wasn’t clever enough to read English at university, she studied Media at Sussex University, she went on to work at the Guardian Guide and then moved on into publishing aged just 23. Candice created the Guardian and 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize which aims to find, champion and celebrate non-white writers.

Moira Stewart OBE

Fondly remembered as one of a newsreader’s newsreader, Moira Stewart was the epitome of professionalism: measured, phlegmatic and impartial in her crystal clear delivery of news of all kinds and on any topic.

Moira Stuart was the first Black British female newsreader to appear on BBC News with a career spanning 35 years of radio and television. Moira Steward received many honours, awards, and achievements, including a CBE, honorary doctorates from Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Edinburgh, the European Women of Achievement Award, Global Diversity Award, Best Media Personality Award and Media Personality of the Year Award. Her documentary “Moira Stuart In Search of Wilberforce” also won a CLARION Award.

Tumisha Balogun

Music marketing manager Tumisha co-founded youth culture agency TAG (The Advantage Gap) to support talent from underrepresented communities, aiming to transform young lives through community and storytelling, helping to centre, amplify and commission diverse young voices.

Image credit:

“Vanessa Kingori – The Female Lead” by Viktorija Grigorjevaite (a.k.a. Sane Seven). Reproduced under a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, via Wikimedia Commons.