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Category: Black History Month

H3MR4W Vanessa Kingori after she received her Member of the British Empire (MBE) medal at an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

Black History Month

Vanessa Kingori: Rule breaker or change maker?

Vanessa Kingori MBE, Publishing Director of British Vogue, is the first female publisher in the magazine’s 103-year history.

by Jennifer Pavlick

Black History Month

Black Britons’ Who Shocked the World: Middleweight World Champion Randolph Turpin

Boxer Randolph Turpin was born to an English mother and black father in the 1920s in Leamington, UK.

by Jennifer Pavlick

Black History Month

Phyllis Opoku Gyimah: Leading Black Pride in the UK

Meet Phyllis Opoku-Gyimah, better known as Lady Phyll. Born in Islington, London in 1974, the British political activist’s story is one of determination and unity. Her work throughout the years has brought light to the prejudice against LGBTQ+ individuals of ethnic minorities, and she has worked tirelessly to liberate them.

Phyll Opoku-Gyimah

by Viola Kahsay

Black History Month

Mary Seacole: Medicine in the Crimean War

In the autumn of 1853, a major military conflict broke out in Europe and spread across the globe, claiming over 600,000 lives along the way.

by Viola Kahsay

Black History Month

Doreen Lawrence: A Remarkable Mother’s Fight For Justice

Baroness Doreen Lawrence’s journey to becoming a key figure in the British Civil Rights Movement began with the brutal murder of her son, Stephen Lawrence, in 1993.

by Jennifer Pavlick

Black History Month

Mawa Theatre: Shakespeare Through the Eyes of Black British Women

Launched in 2020, Mawa Theatre Company is the first all-Black, all-female theatre company in the UK that focusses on presenting Shakespeare’s work through the eyes of Black British women.

by Viola Kahsay

Black History Month

Claudia Jones

Claudia Jones, a journalist and political activist from Trinidad & Tobago, was born in 1915. She relocated to Harlem, New York, with her parents and three sisters when she was nine years old.

Claudia Jones

Black History Month

John Barnes

John Charles Bryan Barnes MBE was born in Jamaica in 1963 to a Trinidad and Tobago military officer and a Jamaican mother.

John Barnes

Black History Month

Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah grew up in Handsworth, Birmingham

Benjamin Zephaniah

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Karen Blackett OBE

Karen Tracey Blackett OBE was raised in Reading and attended the University of Portsmouth as the daughter of first-generation Barbadian immigrants

Karen Blackett OBE

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Dame Sharon White

Dame Sharon Michele White DBE is a British businesswoman. She is the current Chair of the John Lewis Partnership and previously held a variety of roles in the Civil Service.

Dame Sharon White

by Nina Cottam-Highway

Black History Month

Bill Morris

William Manuel Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth, OJ, DL, widely known as Bill Morris. Is the first black leader of a major British trade union.

Bill Morris

by Nina Cottam-Highway

Black History Month

Mary Seacole

Mary Jane Seacole was born in 1805 in Kingston, Jamaica, to James Grant (a Scottish Lieutenant in the British Army and a member of Jamaica’s Free Black Community) and Mrs Grant (a healer who used traditional Caribbean and African herbal medicines).

Mary Seacole

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Steve McQueen

Sir Steve Rodney McQueen KBE is a British filmmaker and video artist.

Steve McQueen

by Nina Cottam-Highway

Black History Month

Professor Stuart Hall

Stuart Henry McPhail Hall was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1932 to parents who were of mixed African, Indian, and British ancestry.

Professor Stuart Hall

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Steel Pulse

Steel pulse are a British reggae roots band from Handsworth, Birmingham

Steel Pulse

by Nina Cottam - Highway

Black History Month

Shirley Bassey

Bassey is widely regarded as one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain.

Shirley Bassey

by Amy COttam - Highway

Black History Month

Kadeena Cox

Kadeena Cox, MBE, is a British parasport athlete and TV personality.

Kadeena Cox

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Phyll Opoku-Gyimah

Phyllis Akua Opoku-Gyimah, also known as ‘Lady Phyll’, is a British political activist and the co-founder of the UK Black Pride.

Phyll Opoku-Gyimah

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Betty Campbell

Rachel Elizabeth “Betty” Campbell MBE was Wales’ first black headteacher and a well-known community activist.

Betty Campbell

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Michaela Coel

Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson is an actress, screenwriter, director, producer, and singer from East London.

Michaela Coel

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Idris Elba

Idrissa “Idris” Akuna Elba OBE is an actor, director, producer, and musician from Britain.

Idris Elba

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Olive Morris

Olive Morris – Graduate, activist, founder and published writer.

Olive Morris

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Stormzy

Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr., professionally known as ‘Stormzy’, is a British rapper from Croydon, London

Stormzy

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Lord David Pitt

David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, was a British Labour Party politician and political activist. He was the longest-serving Black MP in the House of Commons.

Lord David Pitt

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Manchester Hero: Marcus Rashford’s Victories on and off the Pitch

Manchester United’s forward (Marcus Rashford) is single-handedly changing the nation both on and off the pitch.

by Ross Ward

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