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“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is today all but forgotten in the country of his birth. The works of this talented...

Ronald Moody (12 August 1900–6 February 1984) was a Jamaican-born modernist sculptor, writer, broadcaster, and trained dentist. Although...

James Peters was the first Black man to play rugby union for England. Peters was born on 7 August 1879 at 38 Queen Street Salford, Lancashire, England. His Jamaican father, George...

Bill Richmond was an American-born, British-based bare-knuckle boxer who rose from captivity to become one of Britain’s earliest...

Olaudah Equiano was born an Igbo around 1745, in what is now eastern Nigeria. He came from a...