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Black British people or Black Britons [7] are a multi-ethnic group of British people of Sub-Saharan African or Afro-Caribbean descent. [8] The term Black British developed during the 1960s, [9] referring to Black British people from the former British West Indies (sometimes called the Windrush Generation), and from Africa.
100 Great Black Britons is a poll that was first undertaken in 2003 to vote for and celebrate the greatest Black Britons of all time. It was created in a campaign initiated by Patrick Vernon in response to a BBC search for 100 Greatest Britons, together with a television series (2002), which featured no Black Britons in the published listing. [1]
Black British identity is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as a black British person and as relating to being black British. Researched and discussed across a wide variety of mediums; the identity usually intersects with, and is driven by, black African and Afro-Caribbean heritage, and association with African diaspora and culture.
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The list was first created in 2007 by Michael Eboda, then editor of the New Nation, a weekly newspaper published in the UK for the Black British community, as a way to profile and celebrate influential Black Britons, and inspire and influence the next generation. [1]
Beachy Head Lady, purported to be the earliest Black Briton (plaque at a cricket pavilion in East Dean; now removed as DNA analysis has determined the remains origins to have been from "southern Europe – most likely Cyprus") [10] [11] Aballava, the first recorded African community in Britain (plaque at St Michael's Church, Burgh by Sands)
In 1737, black Briton George Scipio was accused of stealing Anne Godfrey's washing, with the case resting entirely on whether or not Scipio was the only black man in Hackney at the time. [15] Around the 1750s, London became the home of many African people, Jews, Irish people, Germans, and Huguenots.
Abbott is Britain’s first black female Member of Parliament, the first black female Shadow Home Secretary and the longest-serving black MP in the House of Commons [2] [3] Shaun Bailey (born 1971), politician and former journalist; Frances Batty Shand (died 1885), early charitable activist; Dawn Butler (born 1963), Labour MP since 2015.