Each One Teach One

Drawing of the zong massacre -slaves being tossed overboard

Events in history

The Zong Massacre

Actors dressed in ku klux klan costumes in a scene from the film the birth of a nation

Events in history

Birth of the Ku Klux Klan

Claudia Jones leads protest against immigration act

Events in history

The Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962

bell hooks

bell hooks: Author and feminist dies aged 69

lenny Hendty

Broadcasters agree to stop using the catch-all BAME acronym

Our Story

Proud to Be: Reclaiming black dignity

Emmett Till – Life and death

Black and Asian Soldiers in World War One

Madam C J Walker

On this day in history

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Onesimus – the slave who helped quell the Boston smallpox outbreak

Claudette Colvin – the teenager that inspired Rosa Parks

Windrush Day

Justin Fashanu – First out gay footballer

Early Jamaican Maroons

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