Ottobah Cugoano: The Pioneer of the Black Radical Tradition
Ottobah Cugoano, pioneered the Black radical tradition when he established his leadership of the British abolitionist movement in 1787 with the publication of his book, Thoughts...
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Billy Strachan: A World War 2 RAF Hero
Billy Strachan was a World War 2 RAF hero and civil rights pioneer. A campaigner against colonialism, he was a member of the Communist Party...
Walter Tull: Black British War Hero
Walter Tull was the British Army’s first ever Black officer. Tull, who was a professional footballer at the outbreak of the first world war, gained...
Dr. Edward Scobie: An authority on the African presence in early Western Europe
“Don’t let our history die.” ~Edward Scobie Dr. Edward Vivian Scobie, author of Black Britannia: The History of Blacks in Britain distinguished himself as an...
David Pitt: Founder of Britain’s first civil rights organization
David Thomas Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, was a Black British politician, general practitioner and political activist, who was the longest serving Black Parliamentarian in...
Ten Black History Quotes by Robin Walker
1. When I was younger, like everyone else, I believe that Black people did not have any history and the only thing we contributed to...
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Black British Composer and Political Activist
“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is today all but forgotten in the country of his birth. The works of this talented composer are now out of fashion; and...
Ronald Moody: A Distinguished Sculptor
Ronald Moody was a Jamaican-born sculptor, specialising in wood carvings. His work features in prestigious collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London and Tate Britain,...
Thomas Lewis Johnson: Twenty-Eight Years a “Slave”
Thomas Johnson was born enslaved at Rock Raymon, Virginia. Johnson spent the first twenty-eight years of his life—until the end of the American Civil War—in...
James Peters: The first Black man to play rugby union for England
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,...