Stella Dadzie is a founder member of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent and is best known for The Heart of the Race, co-authored with Beverley Bryan and Suzanne Scafe, which won the 1985 Martin Luther King Award for Literature. She is well known for her contribution to tackling youth racism and working with racist perpetrators, and is a key contributor to the development of anti-racist strategies with schools, colleges and youth services. She appeared in And Still I Rise, a documentary exploring the social and historical origins of stereotypes of African women and has been a guest on Germaine Greer's BBC2 discussion programme The Last Word.