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Lest We Forget.... Or Perhaps We Do
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100 Great Black Britons book
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Reclaiming Our Family History
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Home school competition to explore Black British History
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Black Ephemera
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EGM Heritage Projects and Programmes
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Black History Month - Origins
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Windrush Commemorative magazine 2018
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Award Walter Tull the Military Cross
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Patrick Vernon & the Ubele Initiative Launch Covid-19 Bereavement Fund
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Akyaaba Addai-Sebo Interview
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Tracing Your Family Heritage
Lest We Forget.... Or Perhaps We Do
SUPPORT WEST INDIAN ASSOCIATION OF SERVICE PERSONNEL £1.4 MILLION CAPTIAL BUILDING PROGRAMMEI was invited to attend in Clapham the Remembrance Sunday memorial service and function organised by the West Indian Association of Service Personne...
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100 Great Black Britons book
Robinson snaps up 100 Great Black Britons book
Little, Brown imprint Robinson will publish Patrick Vernon and Dr Angeline Osborne’s book 100 Great Black Britons to coincide with the announcement of the new list in 2020.
Vernon’s first cam...
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Reclaiming Our Family History
WITH THE recent launch of the online database Legacies of British Slave-ownership project, which provides details of the £20 million paid to slave owners, key issues have been raised not only about the whole debate regarding reparations and...
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Home school competition to explore Black British History
In the light of the COVID-19 crisis and with schools closed until further notice, we are launching a new “home school” competition for children and young people, to explore Black British History and multicultural Britain.
The competition...
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Black Ephemera
Retroism is becoming a growing fashionable trend where styles, images, music, manufactured products and fashion of bygone years are now recreated for a discerning X and Y generation of consumers. The reinvention of cultural and historical m...
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EGM Heritage Projects and Programmes
EGM Heritage and Education Programmes Since 2001, Every Generation has delivered over 140 workshops and film screenings on family genealogy, oral history and cultural heritage at museums, libraries, archives, schools, youth groups, communi... Read more...Black History Month - Origins
The conception and notion of Black Ephemera describes not only the process and how negatives images were created but also how they can be challenged and provide positive and alternative perspectives. This is why the creation and development...
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Windrush Commemorative magazine 2018
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We provide personal narratives, insight, comments and reflections highlighting the Windrush Generation who came to Britain to those born in the Millennium and the diversity of migration over the last 70 years from the Commonweal...
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Award Walter Tull the Military Cross
The petition calls upon David Cameron to posthumously award Walter Tull the Military Cross for which he was recommended. Walter Tull was the first Black officer in the British Army. He was also Britain’s first Black professional footballer ...
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Patrick Vernon & the Ubele Initiative Launch Covid-19 Bereavement Fund
Frontline staff from BAME backgrounds have lost their lives to Covid-19 throughout the past weeks, with the BAME community disproportionately affected by the virus. Figures from NHS England show that of patients in hospital testing positive... Read more...Akyaaba Addai-Sebo Interview
Akyaaba Addai-Sebo is responsible for putting forward the concept of a Black History Month in Britain, into what we recognise today, and is celebrated throughout the country. What follows is an edited version of an interview with Kubara Zam...
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Tracing Your Family Heritage
Family Genealogy in the black community is a difficult and painful process. The impact of slavery still has a mental, physical and socio economic impact on the sustainability of families. The African tradition of the family history and gene...
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Home school competition to explore Black British History
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In the light of the COVID-19 crisis and with schools closed until further notice, we are launching a new “home school” competition for children and young people, to explore Black British History and multicultural Britain.
The competition, sponsored by The National Education Union (NEU), the largest education union in Europe, is part of the special launch of the 100 Great Black Britons campaign created by Patrick Vernon OBE to celebrate the continued legacy and achievements of Black people in Britain.
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100 Great Black Britons book and game
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Launching Oct 2020: As part of the 100 Great Black Britons campaign a book co-written by Patrick Vernon OBE and Dr Angelina Osborne, will be published later this year along with a board game celebrating important Black British figures and their impact on British culture.
Patrick Vernon & the Ubele Initiative Launch Covid-19 Bereavement Fund
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Frontline staff from BAME backgrounds have lost their lives to Covid-19 throughout the past weeks, with the BAME community disproportionately affected by the virus. Figures from NHS England show that of patients in hospital testing positive for Covid-19 at time of death, 16.2% were of BAME ethnicity, while BAME people make up 10.8% of the UK population (according to the 2011 census).
Read more: Patrick Vernon & the Ubele Initiative Launch Covid-19 Bereavement Fund
100 Great Black Britons book
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Little, Brown imprint Robinson will publish Patrick Vernon and Dr Angeline Osborne’s book 100 Great Black Britons to coincide with the announcement of the new list in 2020.
Vernon’s first campaign in 2003 was a major media movement to focus on the role of black people in British history. Originally a response to another BBC poll of 100 great Britons,
Award for Patrick Vernon community activist
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Community activist and Windrush campaigner Patrick Vernon has been honoured by the University of Wolverhampton.
Patrick has a 25-year track record working in health and care, and led the campaign for Windrush Day and amnesty for the Windrush Generation.
He received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University at a graduation ceremony on Thursday, 20 September 2018.
