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Yesterday I received an email from the ligali website. Ligali describes itself as a Pan Africanist human rights Organisation. Ligali Often send me their updates and newsletters, which depending on whether I have a moment to myself I read and digest or sadly leave them to quickly disappear in the the tides of messages in ...

Found this excellent video on Youtube today, some footage of African American Jazz music in the 40's.

Chris Ofili is an Artist known for his controversial use of Elephant dung in his work. He is also a former winner of the Turner Prize. Ofili was born in Manchester in 1968. He studied fine art at the Chelsea School of Art and completed a master's degree in painting at the Royal College of ...

Tom Molineaux was an American boxer who settled in Britain after seeking and winning the World Boxing Title. When Tom Molineaux reached the shores of England in 1809, He came to claim the world boxing title. Presumably Molineaux had partaken in his share of matches prior to his rise as Boxer in Great Britain. However, there ...

Norman Beaton was a teacher turned actor. He will be best remembered for his role as Peckhams best loved Barber in the hit T.V show 'Desmonds'. Norman Lugard Beaton was born in Georgetown Guyana. Beaton attended Queen's College in Guyana until he was expelled for truancy and bad grades. He was given a second chance at ...

From a small, east London council flat in 1982, Val McCalla started the weekly newspaper, the Voice, which went on become the mouthpiece of Britain's black community and made him a multi-millionaire. Launched at the Notting Hill Carnival that August, it grew into the most popular and important black newspaper in this country. From initial sales of ...

Above is a set of Newspaper articles from the 1780s.? Black Dance in London - Circa 1780s

The talented African violin Prodigy George Polgreen Bridgetower was born in Biala, Poland on February 29, 1780; his father...... the African Prince was married to a German woman who is named in English documents as Mary Ann Bridgetown. They had two sons, who both became fine musicians. The younger brother, "Fredrick", was a cellist......... (Prodigy George ...

Sharpe was Possibly the Most Prominent of the Abolitionists and today, is certainly the most celebrated.? Sharp wrote numerous articles about slavery, ...

Before David Grant found fame as a solo artist and lately as a vocal coach on TV programmes such as Fame Academy and also as a contemporary Gospel artist, he was in a '80s Brit-funk group called Linx. From making and selling their 12-inch single of 'You're Lying' in shops like City Records in Holborn, they ...