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Blacks Outdoor Retail Ltd. is a British retailer, headquartered in Bury, Greater Manchester the United Kingdom which owns the British outdoor retailers Blacks, Millets and Ultimate Outdoors. Blacks is the largest outdoor retailer in the UK with stores nationwide. The company entered administration in 2012 and is now owned by JD Sports Fashion plc.
He became honorary president of Bristol's West Indian Parents' Association in 1979 and in 1981 was appointed to the Press Council. [5] On his return to live in Bristol in 1992, Stephenson helped set up the Bristol Black Archives Partnership (BBAP), which "protects and promotes the history of African-Caribbean people in Bristol."
Rear face of a Holborn Trades Council leaflet promoting a 1943 anti-discrimination meeting, and citing the cases of Amelia King and Learie Constantine (transcription). In the United Kingdom, racial segregation occurred in pubs, workplaces, shops and other commercial premises, which operated a colour bar where non-white customers were banned from using certain rooms and facilities. [1]
The St Pauls riot occurred in St Pauls, Bristol, England on 2 April 1980 when police raided the Black and White Café on Grosvenor Road in the heart of the area. After several hours of disturbance in which fire engines and police cars were damaged, 130 people were arrested, 25 were taken to hospital, including 19 police and members of the press.
Bertram Wilks is a well-known member of the Bristol community. Born in Clarendon, Jamaica, in 1938, Wilks moved to the UK in 1959. He opened the Black and White Café in the St Pauls district of Bristol in 1971. [3] Wilks has been featured in the books Policing Notting Hill: Fifty Years of Turbulence, by Tony Moore, [4] and Uprising!
New Deal for Communities was a regeneration programme led by the government of the United Kingdom for some of the England's most deprived neighbourhoods. The programme was established by Tony Blair's Labour Government and was overseen by the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit within the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Cyprus Road, Mapperley, Nottingham: The 33-year-old Nottingham taxi driver died in the early hours of Saturday 14 August, having been stabbed 87 times. The police believe he was robbed of his takings before being stabbed; most of the stab wounds were in the chest. Eleven people were arrested but no one was charged over his murder.
The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 arose from the refusal of the Bristol Omnibus Company to employ Black or Asian bus crews in the city of Bristol, England. In line with many other British cities at the time , there was widespread racial discrimination in housing and employment against so-called "Coloureds".