About 300 people attended Monday night's dedication in St, Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey, of a memorial plaque to Olaudah Equiano (c.1745-97), the leading black abolitionist. Equiano had been baptised at the Church in February 1759. While people waited for the start of the service the Church organist played the 'Trumpet Voluntary' by John Stanley (1712-86) and ...

During the segregated years of the 1900 through 1960s America, the Black Press offered comic strips that featured African American heroes & heroines in a wide variety of life situations. These characters were not confined to gritty 'inner-city' stories, poor 'ghetto' life or as one dimensional comic relief as today . Just as the 'mainstream' carried ...

* Staying Power-The History of Black people in Britain by Peter Fryer (Pluto Press 1984) * Black England-Life before Emancipation by Gretchen Gerzina (John Murray,1995) * Black Settlers in Britain 1555-1958 by Nigel File and chris Power (Heinemann,1981; reprinted 1995) * Black Edwardians-Black people in Britain 1901-1914 by Jeffrey Green (Frank Cass 1998) * Wonderful adventures of Mary Seacole ...

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y., Oct 21, 2008 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- African American History Month annually celebrates important events and honorable people of African heritage during the month of February. Uniquely, its celebration, which began in 1926 as Negro/Black History Week and grew to become African American History Month in recent decades, underscores our nation's multiethnic and multicultural ...