Tag Archive | "Liverpool"
Posted on 24 January 2012. Tags: Blatter, Diane Abbott, Evra, F.A, Labour, Liverpool, Racism, Stephen Lawrence, Suarez, Terry, Tweet, chelsea, football

If , like me, you keep an eye on the British media and the way that it reports race, then you will not have let events of December 2011 go unnoticed.
Seasoned observers of the media will recognise that headlines seem to be on a perpetual carousel, every now and again racism rears its ugly head. ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month UK, Black People in Europe, Black Women, Editors Blog
Posted on 24 September 2010. Tags: Black British Boxers, Irish, Jonh Conte, Liverpool, Sierra Leone, boxers

John Conteh was born in Liverpool in 1951, to an Irish mother and Sierra Leonean father. He was raised in a rough neighbourhood, and his father encouraged him to box at the Kirkby Athletic Club when he was 10 to keep him from joining the local gangs. John excelled in boxing, ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month UK, Black People in Europe, Black Sports Stars
Posted on 21 September 2010. Tags: Alderman, Battersea, Black Politicians, Councillor, John Richard Archer, Liverpool, Politicans

John Richard Archer was Britain's first black Mayor. He was also the first black person to hold Civic Office in Britain as Councillor, Alderman and then
mayor.
Archer was born in Liverpool in 1836 to a Barbadian father and an Irish mother. He settled in Battersea in London around 1890 with his black Canadian wife, there they ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month UK, Caribbean History
Posted on 14 September 2010. Tags: Black History, Bristol, History Lessons, KS3, Liverpool, London, Slavery, Teachers, Teachers TV, Tony Warner

Black History for Schools
Teachers looking for black history for schools? There has been a Black Presence in the British Isles since Roman time. In more recent Centuries the black presence is well documented should you care to look for it.
Teachers TV offers this Introductory video, which you can download from their site to start you in ...
Posted in African History, Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month UK, Slavery
Posted on 23 August 2010. Tags: Arabs, Blacks in Port Cities, Lascars, Liverpool, Race Riots in UK, South Shields, Yemeni, seamen

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 ...
Posted in African History, Black Britain, Black History Month UK, Black People in Europe
Posted on 16 October 2009. Tags: 19th Century Liverpool, Black Britain, Britains sea ports, Civil Unrest, Liverpool, Racism, black sailors, black seamen, race riots

Race riots in the U.K have occurred for some time in Britain. Some of the first recorded "Race Riots" involving black people took place in Liverpool. Liverpool has a long established black community left over from its former status as a Slave Port.
John Johnson a West Indian was stabbed in the face by 2 Scandinavians ...
Posted in African History, Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month UK, Black People in Europe, Black Soldiers, Caribbean History
Posted on 03 March 2009. Tags: American, Black British, Black History, Black Women, Community, England, Liverpool, Orphans, children


Brian Lawrenson writes about his time growing up as a “Brown Baby” in a postwar Liverpool orphanage.
Posted in Black Britain, Black People in Europe
Posted on 02 March 2009. Tags: Africa, America, American, Americas, Antigua, Army, Black, Black British, Blacks, Britain, British, Canada, Death, France, Hair, Health, Jamaica, Liverpool, London, Military, Moors, Navy, News, Nurse, Soldiers, Trade, Troops, Trumpet, Wales, War, Williams, equality, negro, senegal, slaves, surgeon


It would of course be easy to leave such men as
Posted in African American History, African History, Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month UK, Black Soldiers, Caribbean History