This chapter explores the dynamic interplay between resistance, agency, and racialised state power, focusing on how Black British communities actively contest their marginalisation and reimagine belonging. In doing so, it considers how resistance, whether in the form of protest, cultural production, community organising, or everyday defiance, constitutes a critical site of identity formation and political agency. Drawing on participant narratives and community histories, this chapter situates local acts of refusal within a broader global and historical arc of anti-racist struggle, from local uprisings to solidarity with global movements. These acts of resistance, both organised and every day, connect Black British experiences to wider currents of decolonial and diasporic struggle (Gilroy, 1993; Kelley, 2002).