Evon Brennan is a singer songwriter from Donegal in Ireland. Now living in London, Evon has firmly established herself on the live circuit. A unique voice...inspired by her many experiences. None more so than being Black and Irish and raised in a rural setting in Ireland. Her Mother was a Dublin girl. Her Father a Ghanaian medical student studying at Dublin ...

Jeremy Guscott was one of Britains finest Rugby players in the 1990's. He Made his international debut in 1989 against Romania. A few weeks later he went with the Loins to Australia. He appeared in the last test for scored a famous match winning try. Jerry went on to win 3 Grand Slams with England ...

Denise Lewis is a Black British Athlete, a superb all-round talent. Denise progressed to the highest world-class at the heptathlon, her highest accolade was the Olympic gold medal she won in Sydney. She achieved a best of 5277 points in her first year at the event in 1989. She was Britain's woman athlete of the year ...

  Today Most Western countries are struggling to pay off their national debt and keep their houses in order, it seems though, that things have been the same many times before.  The 1770's were no different.  People came up with unpopular and outlandish ideas to balance the books, just as they do today.   The ...

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 ...

Black Britons - Race Riots in South Shields The first race riots to take place in Britain were in South Shields (Tyneside). A number of Arab and Somali seamen had settled there in the 1860's, and theses populations were added to by West African and West Indian Seamen who settled in North shields before the First ...

Black British History went through something of a coming out party in the late 1990's and early naughties. Real interest arose in the contributions of Black people in Britain and The Internet brought forth a whole plethora of sites and snippets of information all with the aim of finally setting the history books straight. However, ...

"Blamenn!" Palli, our Iceland Review photographer, shouts. "You call them Blamenn!" Of course, Palli is a leg-puller from way back, so I take this with a grain of salt. Although it's something I desperately want answered. What are black people called in Iceland? Palli's answer of "blamenn" (blue men), however dubious, is historically how the ancient ...

Part of the Myth that black people have only been living in Britain since the 1950's has been due to the general inaccessible nature of public records to the masses. In today's modern world, more and more records are becoming available to people online. The Old Bailey Online site is one such resource ...

This clip from a War Department film shows African-American soldiers being trained for combat during World War 2. The Tuskegee Airmen are seen flying fighter planes in the U.S., while other soldiers train in arctic conditions. There's no year given, but it's probably 1942 or 1943.

PROTESTS0001, originally uploaded by GLOSACK. usually near Times Square Manhattan these activists/devotees preach their own interpretation of the bible, racism, religion what have you. you think im FURIOUS?????????????????????????? Uploaded by GLOSACK on 4 Jul 10, 6.27A

Throughout History the role of the black soldier has been underplayed in Western Armies. Black people have fought in all the Major European Armies including those of Poland and Germany. African American troops fought in Both world Wars and subsequent conflicts. African colonial troops fought in the First World War in Europe. Look through the images ...