Welcome to the Activating Newham podcast, a collection of talks recorded at Old Manor Park Library in Newham, London as part of a project exploring different communities’ experiences of racism in the area during the 1980s and now. A group of young curators, with the help of Create London, the Institute of Race Relations and Rabbits Road Press developed a programme of public talks that began to situate their own insights and experiences of racism and activism in the context of this history. These podcasts were recorded in front of a live audience.