WATCH: Amazing Grace: Why Aretha Franklin movie lay hidden for 50 years
An unseen 1972 movie of Aretha Franklin recording the most successful gospel album to date was shelved and…
Black History Features
Charlie Williams – The first Black British comedian to experience mainstream success
Charles Adolphus Williams MBE (23 December 1927 – 2 September 2006) was an English professional footballer who was…
“We didn’t win the war for people like you to come here and take our homes and jobs.”
I was aware that I had a right to be here and an entitlement to exist. Now, I…
Margaret Busby: Doyenne of Black British Publishing
Born in Accra, Ghana to parents with roots in Barbados, Trinidad and Dominica, she became Britain’s youngest and…
Monument At Waterloo!
“On 22 June 2019, Theresa May, Britain’s acting Prime Minister, announced that London Waterloo Station had “been confirmed…
The Ambassadors Youth Choir
The Jamaican Ambassadors Youth Choir is no exception and following on from the success of last year’s Independence…
POST WINDRUSH FEARS CONTINUE – Owen Haisley’s Story
Holstered in a van, he was minutes away from being put on a Virgin Atlantic flight to Jamaica…
Windrush Day message from Diane Abbott and Jeremy Corbyn, The Labour Party
The bond between the Windrush generation and all of us is unbreakable. In June 1948, the Empire Windrush…
Windrush Day 2019 message from Theresa May, Prime Minister
I am honoured that as one of my final acts of being Prime Minster of this great nation;…
Windrush Day 2019 message from Vince Cable, Leader of the Liberal Democrats
This wave of mass migration is an important part of our nation’s historical narrative. It tells the story of…
Prostate Cancer – Together we can beat this
Actor Rudolph Walker tells us about his Caribbean roots and passion for the cause What do you know…
The Story of Modern Britain by Lord Bourne
Although those on board could not have known it, their arrival to this busy working port heralded a…
Windrush Moving Forward – Jamaica Continues To Stand With The Diaspora
Hosted by His Excellency Mr Seth George Ramocan at the Jamaica High Commission in London, Senator Johnson Smith…
Baroness Floella Benjamin…A Windrush Story
I am very much part of the Windrush generation because I came to Britain from Trinidad as a…
A Double Windrush Offer Forms Part Of Anti-University Now 2019 Programme
Ahead of the first official Windrush Day celebrations, two community organisations, BTWSC/African Histories Revisited and BritishBlackMusic.com/Black Music Congress,…
Artist Extraordinaire in London – Faith Ringgold
For the first time Faith Ringgold’s extraordinary work is being shown in London as a major solo exhibition…
Motherland Conference Cambridge: African Caribbean Society Makes its Mark.
This is how the Motherland Conference was launched by Cambridge University African Caribbean Society at the Cambridge Union…
Football icons the Three Degrees honoured with new statue in heart of West Bromwich
A statue in honour of the sporting legends – the Three Degrees – was unveiled today in the…
Motown At 60…A Legacy To Be Remembered
As early as 1958 British music buyers bestowed upon songwriter Berry Gordy Jr. the founder of Motown, his…
BLACK TUDORS…A peek into the lives of ten people of the African Diaspora who lived in Tudor Britain
The Tudors reigned from 1485 to 1603 then the Stuarts from 1603 until 1714. Of interest is the…
