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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 and British: A Forgotten History is a four-part BBC Television documentary series, written and presented by David Olusoga and first broadcast in November 2016, [1] [2] and a book of the same title written by Olusoga to accompany the series.
Black Cultural Archives (BCA) is an archive and heritage centre in Brixton, London, devoted to the histories of people of African and Caribbean descent in Britain.Also known as BCA, it was founded in 1981, by educationalist and historian Len Garrison and others.
Obama became the first Black president in American history after winning the 2008 election race against John McCain. While in office, he earned a Nobel Peace Prize, worked to limit climate change ...
Black British people; Black Cultural Archives; Black elite; Black Equity Organisation; Black History Month; Black managers in English football; Black people in Cambridge;
Extract from the 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll almost certainly showing Blanke, wearing a green turban latticed with yellow. John Blanke (also rendered Blancke or Blak) (fl. 1501–1511) was a musician of African descent in London from the early Tudor period, who probably came to England as one of the African attendants of Catherine of Aragon in 1501.
Black History Month is all about acknowledging the contributions that Black people have made to society over the years. Along with the feats accomplished - resistance and pain are also central themes.
The black people in London lived among the whites in areas of Mile End, Stepney, Paddington, Isleworth and St Giles. The majority of these people worked as domestic servants to wealthy whites. Many became labeled as the "Black Poor" defined as former low-wage soldiers, seafarers and former plantation workers. [18]