Liverpool Mayor calls for more lessons on black history to be taught on curriculum

Liverpool Mayor Joanne Anderson is calling for more lessons on the positive contribution black people have had on society to be taught in schools across the country.

All this week the city's been taking a stand against racism, to get people to open up about their experiences, and a give better understanding of how to respond to hate crimes.

Mayor Anderson reckons teaching kids the true definition of black history would go some way to establishing better equality across the board :

"Probably my worst experience was in education, and how teachers behaved towards you, and stereotyped you. Black history being taught in schools would be really important. There's lots of pressures on the curriculum, but for young black children, they don't get taught enough empowering things about their history.

"I didn't know that slave ships revolted for example, I didn't get taught that, I didn't learn about that until I was in my thirties.

"The whole history that I got was about black people being abused, and the terrible things that happened during slavery. I never got once taught that black people, and black women in particular, revolted against that".