In 1936, the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie was exiled in Bath in the UK
Published on Tuesday, 10th September 2024.
In 1987, Waris Dirie had her first photo-shoot and became a supermodel sensation
Published on Wednesday, 28th August 2024.
The campaign to return Sarah Baartman to South Africa nearly 200 years after her death
Published on Wednesday, 24th April 2024.
The first African-American woman to lead a World War Two battalion
Published on Friday, 19th April 2024.
In 1973 a fashion show was held in France which the media dubbed the Battle of Versailles
Published on Friday, 9th February 2024.
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat helped end segregation in the United States
Published on Thursday, 8th February 2024.
She overcame poverty, health problems and racism to become one of Peru’s greatest singers
Published on Wednesday, 7th February 2024.
In 1986, Charlotte Mensah went to work in the UK's first luxury Afro-Caribbean hair salon
Published on Monday, 5th February 2024.
In 2013, South Africa's first black president was buried in his ancestral village
Published on Friday, 15th December 2023.
How a protest by black activists in 1963 led to the UK's first anti-racism laws
Published on Monday, 28th August 2023.
On 22 June 1948, the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in England
Published on Thursday, 22nd June 2023.
MoMA bought photos from an African-American woman for the first time in 1979.
Published on Friday, 16th June 2023.
She received numerous Hugos and Nebulas - top writing prizes for sci-fi writing
Published on Monday, 6th March 2023.
The BBC's first black producer, Una Marson, and the beginnings of the Caribbean Service
Published on Monday, 19th December 2022.
In 1985, a guide was written for young black men in the US who were stopped by the police
Published on Monday, 31st October 2022.
In 1959, Claudia Jones held a Caribbean party, planting the seeds for the famous carnival
Published on Friday, 7th October 2022.
Jimmy Cliff spoke about the film that brought reggae music to the world in 1972
Published on Thursday, 6th October 2022.
Manchester’s first racially inclusive nightclub
Published on Monday, 3rd October 2022.
How a pioneering African-American journalist campaigned against lynching in the US
Published on Tuesday, 31st May 2022.
The black Florida teenager killed by a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer while buying sweets.
Published on Thursday, 24th February 2022.
In 1967 an African American church minister began preaching that Jesus was black.
Published on Friday, 2nd April 2021.
Growing up as a black child in post-war Germany
Published on Tuesday, 3rd November 2020.
The mathematicians who worked behind the scenes on the American space programme
Published on Friday, 23rd October 2020.
In November 1978, the defender became the first black Englishman to play for his country.
Published on Thursday, 22nd October 2020.
How anti-racists stopped a far-right march in South London in 1977.
Published on Friday, 9th October 2020.
Shortly after his release from prison the South African freedom fighter toured the USA
Published on Wednesday, 23rd September 2020.
The black former soldier choked to death on the floor of a British police station in 1998
Published on Tuesday, 7th July 2020.
One man's experience of the controversial US law that saw thousands locked up for life
Published on Friday, 12th June 2020.
People rioted in Los Angeles after police who had assaulted a black man were acquitted
Published on Thursday, 11th June 2020.
How an all-black college team overturned racist assumptions about basketball in the USA
Published on Wednesday, 10th June 2020.
Four young black girls were killed in a racist attack on a church in Alabama in 1963
Published on Tuesday, 9th June 2020.
A landmark case about racial segregation in the USA.
Published on Monday, 8th June 2020.
Ann Lowe designed Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress but for years few people knew her name
Published on Friday, 29th May 2020.
After four white policemen were acquitted of killing a black man - Miami rioted in 1980
Published on Monday, 18th May 2020.
A woman who died in the US in 1940 was captured and enslaved in West Africa as a child
Published on Tuesday, 21st April 2020.
Norwell Roberts endured years of racist abuse within the Metropolitan police
Published on Monday, 3rd February 2020.
Madam C. J. Walker was born to former slaves and created a black beauty business.
Published on Thursday, 30th January 2020.
How a 14-year-old boy became the youngest person executed in the USA in the 20th century
Published on Thursday, 16th January 2020.
Desmond's was the most successful black sitcom in British TV history
Published on Thursday, 2nd January 2020.
How soldiers who had been relegated to support roles were asked to volunteer for combat
Published on Monday, 16th December 2019.
When New York police shot a young immigrant 41 times, thousands took to the streets
Published on Thursday, 12th December 2019.
The stigma of growing up as a mixed race child in post-war Britain
Published on Friday, 11th October 2019.
How British black activists fought for employment rights in the 1960s
Published on Thursday, 10th October 2019.
Inter-racial violence broke out in west London in the summer of 1958
Published on Wednesday, 9th October 2019.
In 1987 Diane Abbott became the first black woman to be elected to the British Parliament
Published on Tuesday, 8th October 2019.
The great West Indian cricketer who fought against racism in the UK
Published on Monday, 7th October 2019.
The revolutionary Black Panther Party provided free breakfasts for local schoolchildren.
Published on Wednesday, 18th September 2019.
The great African-American jazz singer moved to West Africa in 1974.
Published on Thursday, 29th August 2019.
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was brutally murdered in Mississippi
Published on Monday, 26th August 2019.
Yvonne Conolly was appointed head of Ringcross Primary school in North London in 1969
Published on Friday, 8th March 2019.
Moneta Sleet, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism.
Published on Tuesday, 14th August 2018.
Thomas A Dorsey is credited with developing Gospel music into a global phenomenon.
Published on Monday, 29th January 2018.
The African-American winter holiday was invented in Los Angeles in 1966.
Published on Tuesday, 26th December 2017.
The African-American lab technician whose surgery helped save millions of babies..
Published on Wednesday, 13th December 2017.
Cells taken from an African American woman in 1951 revolutionised medical science
Published on Thursday, 2nd March 2017.
The epic mini-series about slavery in the USA hit TV screens in January 1977
Published on Thursday, 19th January 2017.
In December 1976 gunmen tried to kill the legendary reggae singer at his home in Jamaica.
Published on Friday, 2nd December 2016.
How an African American soldier captured in the Korean war, decided to settle in China
Published on Tuesday, 1st November 2016.
Only one Congresswoman voted against the 'war on terror'. Her name was Barbara Lee.
Published on Tuesday, 20th September 2016.
In August 1969, the first classical ballet company to focus on black dancers was formed
Published on Wednesday, 24th August 2016.
In 1981 police used CS gas for the first time in mainland Britain to control race riots
Published on Monday, 25th July 2016.
Robert Robinson, a black American engineer, spent 43 years in the USSR against his will.
Published on Monday, 20th June 2016.
In 1916 Marcus Garvey arrived in the US urging black people to unite in a new nation.
Published on Tuesday, 17th May 2016.
On 21 April 1966 Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia arrived in Jamaica
Published on Monday, 18th April 2016.
In the late 1800s thousands of African-Americans tried to emigrate to escape violence
Published on Tuesday, 23rd February 2016.
The Guyanese historian and political activist Walter Rodney was killed by a bomb in 1980
Published on Thursday, 11th June 2015.
In 1931, nine black teenagers were convicted of raping two white girls in Alabama.
Published on Thursday, 17th October 2013.
In 1925 a young black American dancer became an overnight sensation in Paris
Published on Thursday, 10th October 2013.
Thousands of black American children protest against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama
Published on Wednesday, 9th October 2013.
How Mildred and Richard Loving fought to get mixed-race marriages legalised across the US
Published on Tuesday, 8th October 2013.
A simple non-violent action to protest against racial segregation in restaurants and shops
Published on Monday, 7th October 2013.
The story of an extraordinary act of courage by the civil rights leader Martin Luther King
Three civil rights workers are killed in Mississippi while taking part in Freedom Summer
Published on Saturday, 5th October 2013.
In 1968, when Petula Clark touched Harry Belafonte's arm, it made US TV history
Published on Thursday, 3rd October 2013.
Over 50 years ago a white journalist tried living as a black man in America's Deep South.
It wasn't until 1974 that American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time
Published on Wednesday, 2nd October 2013.
How Lee Elder broke one of the last colour barriers in US sport in 1975
The rebellion was brutally crushed, but it had a significant impact
Published on Tuesday, 1st October 2013.
The story of the coming of the first West Indian migrants to Britain, back in 1948
In September 1971 prisoners in a high security jail in the US rose up against their guards
Published on Monday, 9th September 2013.
Martin Luther King made his historic plea for racial equality at the March on Washington
Published on Wednesday, 28th August 2013.
How the boxing champion's refusal to go to Vietnam made him a hero to 1960s radicals
Published on Thursday, 25th April 2013.
Held 24 hours after the death of Martin Luther King, the gig went ahead peacefully
Published on Friday, 5th April 2013.
The US government's experiment on a group of African-American men without their knowledge
Published on Monday, 14th January 2013.
