Posted on 01 September 2010. Tags: Adidas Golden Boot, Bradford, Breat Britain, Ellery Hanley, Headingley, Leeds, Mr Magic, Rugby League, Rugby union, St Helens, The black Pearl, Wembley, wigan rugby

Ellery Hanley was one of Britain's Greatest Rugby
Players.
On November 26th 1978 Ellery Hanley
made his debut in which 'Northern' won 30-18. Over the following 6 years with Bradford, Hanley made 126 appearances scoring phenomenal 89 tries. Undoubtedly his greatest season for the club came in 1984/85 when he scored 55 tries in only 37 appearances, a ...
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Posted on 23 August 2010. Tags: 89th Foot, Black Bandsmen, black soldiers, British armed Forces, Chelsea Pensioners, Dominican Republic, East India Company, French West Indies, George Cocoa, George Warner, Gosport, Haiti, Hampshire, Ireland, jamaican, Java Clasp, Joseph Gasford, Meath, Military General Service Medal, Napoleonic Wars, Portsmouth, Royal Irish Fusiliers, slave, Soldier, St Domingo, Turkish Music, Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Waterloo, West India Regiments, West Indies

Far from Home; A Brief Record of the Life, Military Service and Death of Joseph Gasford; A Black Bandsman of the 89th Foot; Late of St. Domingo and Gosport, Hampshire. By John D Ellis. Joseph Gasford was born in French governed St. Domingo, (modern day Haiti and the Domincan Republic), in 1785. Whether he was ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black Britons, Black Presence, Caribbean, Education, Europe, History, Men, Military, War
Posted on 18 August 2010. Tags: Black History, Black Writing

Dear All,
I am pleased to inform you that we now have a Summer Promotion on "The Sound of Running Water" with a free delivery service.
Information on "The Sound of Running Water"
" The Sound of Running Water " is a Pocket-sized gift book of Proverbs and Quotations aimed to inspire our minds into great heights of ...
Posted in African, Black Blog Posts, Black History, Black Writing, Books, Caribbean, Community, Education, Poetry, Religion
Posted on 13 July 2010. Tags: Black boxers, Black Canadians, black man, Boxing, Canada, Famous Black People, Famous history, Heavyweight Boxers, Lennox Lewis, Sport, World Champion

Lennox Lewis was Britains last Heavyweight Champion boxer. Despite a reputedly high, undisclosed personal wealth, Lennox Lewis remains one of the most likeable sporting personalities of this century. Lennox Claudius Lewis was born in Stratford, London on 2 September 1965.
His names could not be more aptly chosen as Lennox is Gaelic and means 'chieftain' ...
Posted in African American, Black Britain, Black Britons, Caribbean, History, Men, Sports, The Americas
Posted on 09 July 2010. Tags: Arts, Black routes, dance, Media, Music

Eleven artists have now been selected for the first round of this annual programme from a long-list of 40 nominated by members of the Black Routes network, alongside producers, promoters, DJs and other industry professionals. This July, the group will undertake an intensive week of training in the beautiful and inspirational surroundings of Dartington Arts ...
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Posted on 08 July 2010. Tags: Barrow in furness, black rugby Players, James Peters, Plymouth, Rugby

James Peters was the first Black man to play Rugby Football for England. Born in Salford slums of Manchester He moved to London where he began to play Rugby.
Later he moved to Bristol and then Plymouth where he worked as a Docker and quickly got into the local team. Before long ...
Posted in African, Black Britain, Black Britons, Caribbean, Community, History, Men, Sports
Posted on 08 July 2010. Tags: Barcelona Olympics, Black Athletes, Black History, Black People in Wales, Black Welsh, colin Jackson, Famous history, hurdles, Olympics, Sprint, Wales, World Championships

Colin Jackson is One of Britain's greatest ever athletes who retired after a remarkable seventeen years at the top.
Although as a boy, Colin Jackson had an all-round talent for sport, playing football and cricket for the county and rugby and basketball for his school. Athletics came most naturally to him, his favoured event being the ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black Britons, Black History, Caribbean, Education, History, Men, Sports
Posted on 07 July 2010. Tags: Athletics, Black British, Black sprinters, British Athletics, Gold Medal, Linford Christie, Mens 100m, Sprint

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Linford Christie's title collection includes an Olympic, a World Championship, three European, three Commonwealth, ten European Cup and four World Cup medals. Linford was the first man to retain the World Cup 100m title and in 1997 won a record 7th European Cup title.
From 1995 to 1997 he was the inspirational captain of the men's ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black Britons, Caribbean, Education, History, Men, Sports
Posted on 28 June 2010. Tags: Aston Villa, Collymore, football, Forest, Liverpool FC, Soccer

Stan Collymore is remembered as being one of Footballs bad boys. He has now retired from professional football. He was an extremely successful Striker.
Born January 22, 1971 in Stone in Staffordshire.
He joined Walsall in 1989 but the club later canceled his Y.T.S contract. In July 1989 Wolves agreed to complete his trainee term but despite ...
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Posted on 08 June 2010. Tags: Afro-American, Barnabas fund, Christ, Christianity, Paul Mursalin, Precepts for Living, Project Joseph, Religion, Saving Our sons

Rev Carl F Ellis is founder of Project Joseph. He is a well known Afro-American speaker and teacher from the USA, editor of "Saving Our Sons" and also editor of the well known 'Precepts for Living' a leading personal study guide and annual commentary. He has a ministry advising Afro-American pastors on the challenges affecting ...
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Posted on 26 May 2010. Tags: Black, Black British History, England, Inter racial marriage, London, Mixed Marriage 1770, Southwark, white

The Annual Register Marriage Record
Record of a Michael Thomas(Black) and? Ann Brandley (White) being married in Southwark on November 5th, 1770.
This Morning Michael Thomas, a black, and Ann Brandley, a white, were married at St. Olave's, Southwark; but while the ceremony was performing a press-gang interrupted the minister ...
Posted in African, Black Britain, Black Britons, Caribbean, History, Racism
Posted on 25 May 2010. Tags: Arsenal, Black Footballers, Celtic, Ian Wright, Live from Studio 5, MBE, Strikers, The Ian wright Show, TV Presenter

Ian Wright was one of the best known footballers in the British game, he started off as a low paid plasterer and ended up being one of the most recognised footballers of our time.
He was recognised as an extremely talented young striker which his managers soon noticed. He was getting paid ...
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