S.J. Celestine Edwards: Placing Anti-Racism in Victorian Print Culture.

This article examines the pioneering role of S.J. Celestine Edwards (1858–1894), a Dominican who became the first black editor of British periodicals in the 1890s, notably the Christian Evidence weekly *Lux* and the anti-racist monthly *Fraternity*, successor to *Anti-Caste*. Edwards integrated his Christian apologetics work with early anti-racist activism, using his editorial platforms and public lectures to address racial prejudice, imperial violence, and secularism as interconnected social issues within late-Victorian Britain. His efforts linked established Christian networks to the emerging anti-racist movement, collaborating with figures such as Ida B. Wells and expanding the reach of the Society for the Recognition of the Brotherhood of Man (SRBM). Although Edwards’s death and internal divisions within the movement limited its immediate impact, his work highlights the complex intersections of religion, race, and social reform in Victorian culture and the early foundations of anti-racism in Britain.