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Make Space for Girls charity using the law to make parks more inclusive

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Windrush arrivals 1948

The Windrush passenger’s underground accommodations

JOSEPHINE BAKER

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Love Island

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Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together.”—Diane McLaren

Moments in time

Drawing of the zong massacre -slaves being tossed overboard

The Zong Massacre

24 December, 2021 by Pasha O

In 1781 over 100 enslaved Africans were thrown overboard the Zong slave ship to allow the slave owners to collect insurance money on their human commodities. The slave trade brought …

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Birth of the Ku Klux Klan

23 December, 2021 by Pasha O

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is an American white supremacist terrorist hate group founded after the American Civil War to suppress and victimise newly freed African American slaves.  Over the …

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Claudia Jones leads protest against immigration act

The Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962

22 December, 2021 by Pasha O

On 1 July 1962, the Commonwealth Immigrants Act came into effect, ending the automatic right of people of the British Commonwealth and Colonies to settle in the United Kingdom. The …

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Sir Francis Kerr-Jarrett – Jamaican landowner

11 September, 2021 by Pasha O

Francis Kerr-Jarrett was a landowner and sugar manufacturer in Jamaica. He served as Custos Rotulorum of Saint James Parish, Jamaica from 1933–1965. Custos rotulorum is Latin for ‘keeper of the …

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Emmett Till and Mamie Till

Emmett Till – Life and death

Black soldiers in world war one

Black and Asian Soldiers in World War One

Madam C J Walker inventor

Madam C J Walker

Boston smallpox outbreak

Onesimus – the slave who helped quell the Boston smallpox outbreak

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