The Good, the Black and the Boujee with Symeon Brown

From broadcasters and lawyers to content creators, actors and politicians, Black professionals appear to have become leaders of Britain's most visible, profitable and culture-defining industries. Yet educated Black professionals say racism is entrenched and rising to the top has never been harder. So, what is going on? How have they ascended? At what expense? And what does the expansion of a Black middle class mean for all Black people in Britain?

National correspondent Symeon Brown has undertaken the largest known data study of Britain's Black middle class and elite to compile a social history and critique of the new Black middle class. With style, depth and an incisive eye, he unravels the web of class and gender that shapes Black Britain today, rendering visible the psychological and material cost of class aspiration.

Join Symeon for one of the most discussed books of 2026.