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Category: Black History Month

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.

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.

Black History Month

Benjamin Zephaniah

Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah grew up in Handsworth, Birmingham

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

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.

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.

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).

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Steve McQueen

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

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.

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Steel Pulse

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

by Nina Cottam - Highway

Black History Month

Shirley Bassey

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

by Amy COttam - Highway

Black History Month

Kadeena Cox

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

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.

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Betty Campbell

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

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Michaela Coel

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

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Idrs Elba

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

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Olive Morris

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

by Steena Somanah

Black History Month

Stormzy

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

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.

by Steena Somanah

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