Black and Irish was started in 2020.”Leon Diop, the founder of Black and Irish. They produce books (Black & Irish: Legends, Trailblazers and Everyday Heroes cowritten by Diop and Briana Fitzsimons), podcasts (a new iteration of the Black & Irish podcast is being launched in the new year) and an awards gala (also to return in 2026). [After Black and Irish] I began receiving messages from people saying, ‘Leon, I used to say some horrible things. “What the far right want to do is turn this into an immigrant problem. They just don’t like black and brown people.
