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 his commission as a second lieutenant in 1917, having served a...
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 authority in tracing the history of Black peop...
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 the UK, having been granted a life p...
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 world culture was to be everyone else’s slaves. I watched a TV series, Root...
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 little of his music is available in printed form."
Samuel Cole...
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, as well as the National G...
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 the Maafa (slavery) to a family named Brent. Afte...
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, Lancashire, England. His Jamaican father, George Peters, was from the West...
Bill Richmond: A Boxer Up From the Maafa
Bill Richmond was an African-American boxer, who was the first Black professional boxer to gain international recognition. Richmond was the Muhammad Ali of his day - quick-witted and fast to react to prejudice....
Johnson Beharry: A Military Hero
Johnson Gideon Beharry is Britain's highest decorated serving soldier. He became a national hero after risking his life to save a group of wounded soldiers in Iraq. On 18 March 2005, the Black British Army sold...