Notable speakers have included the Jamaican academic Dr. Richard Hart, Maria Florez, the Cuban ambassador to Britain, representatives of the South African African National Congress and Pan-African Congress, and the Florida human-rights activist Omali Yeshitela.
BHA was held fortnightly (then monthly), primarily in Brixton,[1] but also in other London locations including Lewisham and Hackney.
Black History for Action was organised by an independent, secular management committee of invited community volunteers, prominent amongst whom was the late Afruika Bantu (formerly known as Annette Blair).
The BHA's guiding principle was that, as an independent organisation, it ought not be subject to financial or political interference by corporate or government funding agencies.
Meetings also served as a small distribution outlet for pan-African history books and pamphlets such as Walter Rodney's How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Malcolm X's On Afro-American History and Richard Hart's Black Jamaican's Struggle Against Slavery.