Walter Tull: First British-born black army officer
Walter Tull was one of Britain’s first black footballers and a First World War hero. Walter Tull was born in Folkestone, Kent on 28 April 1888. His father Daniel Tull, …
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Walter Tull was one of Britain’s first black footballers and a First World War hero. Walter Tull was born in Folkestone, Kent on 28 April 1888. His father Daniel Tull, …
Back in 2012, plans were proposed to downgrade Lewisham Hospital by closing its Accident and Emergency services and Maternity unit. The people of Lewisham and elsewhere, came together to protest …
The Broadway Theatre, Catford has had many names over the decades. It started out as a concert hall extension to Lewisham Town Hall called uninspiringly “Town Hall Extension”. In 1926, …
The building we now call the Old Town Hall in Catford isn’t that old and wasn’t the first Town Hall to be built along the strip of Road now known …
There are many who claim that John Hanson was the first Black president of the United States, not Barack Obama. This tale is continuously shared on social media. Because many …
This is a lecture that contradicts what we know of our history. It manages to span over 10,000 years of our history in under an hour. It looks at the …
Sandra Bland is another black life lost under hinky police circumstances. The 28-year-old’s death in a Texas county jail on 13 July, three days after a routine traffic stop turned …
Greenwood, Tulsa was once a prosperous, modern, cultured Black community known as Black Wall Street until it was burned down by envious racists.
Jamaica Welfare was founded by Norman Manley in 1937. It was the first large scale social welfare organisation on the island. It was formed from suggestions Manley made to United …
On hearing that Clayton Lockett suffered during his botched execution many of you may have looked at his crime before deciding whether he was worthy of your compassion. That’s okay, …
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad. Harriet Tubman was born in Dorchester …
Marcus Garvey’s prophecies and philosophy shaped, the Rastafari movement. Marcus Mosiah Garvey was born on the 17th of August 1887, in Jamaica. His teachings of black self empowerment are credited …
Civil rights leader Rosa Parks was honoured with a commemorative statue in the US Capitol building in Washington DC on Wednesday 27 February 2013. Parks’ refusal to give up her …
Ida B Wells was born into slavery on July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Her father, James, was a carpenter and her mother, Elizabeth, was a famous cook. Both …
CONTENTS Preface Ida B. Wells I Introduction Frederick Douglass II Class Legislation Ida B. Wells III The Convict Lease System Ida B. Wells IV Lynch Law Ida B. Wells …
Southern Horrors – Lynch Law in All Its Phases was written by activist Ida B Wells. Preface Hon. Fred. Douglass’s Letter The Offense The Black And White Of It The …
Sarah Forbes Bonetta was the princess, born into the Egbado royal family of south-western Nigeria, who became a favourite of Queen Victoria and a regular visitor to Windsor Castle. Sarah …
Fred Hampton was a political activist born August 30, 1948. He was killed as he lay in bed in his apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook County, Illinois …
Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African descent globally – Why? 500 years later from the onset of …
On 16 October 1968 American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos took a stand that would see them banished from the Olympic games. In 1968, the United States already had …
Not many will know of Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche who is notable for being the only black man to have died on the Titanic. Joseph Philippe Lemercier Laroche was born …
Rodney King (born April 9, 1965) was caught by the Los Angeles police after a high-speed chase on 3 March, 1991. The officers pulled him out of the car and …
When 20-year-old Sarah (also spelt Sara) Baartman got on a boat that was to take her from Cape Town to London in 1810, she could not have known that she …
The Destruction of Black Civilization took Chancellor Williams sixteen years of research and field study to compile. The book, which was to serve as a reinterpretation of the history of …
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