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Award Walter Tull the Military Cross
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Jamaica Fi Real
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100 Great Black Britons Campaign
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100 Great Black Britons Book 2020
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Reclaiming Our Family History
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Windrush Commemorative magazine 2018
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After the love has gone - Dougies
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Case Study Motherland
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Tracing Your Family Heritage
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Lest We Forget.... Or Perhaps We Do
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The Windrush Generation Legacy
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Home school competition to explore Black British History
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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Jamaica Fi Real
To the world at large Jamaica means sunny beaches, reggae and rum, but Jamaica Fi Real: Beauty, Vibes and Culture goes far beyond the surface...
Exposing and exploring the unique things that make Jamaica. In some cases setting the record s...
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100 Great Black Britons Campaign
During 2002, the BBC devised a campaign and television series called 100 Great Britons where the public voted for Winston Churchill as the Greatest Briton of all time. Every Generation developed an alternative campaign and poll to raise the...
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100 Great Black Britons Book 2020
A long-overdue book, 100 Great Black Britons honours the remarkable achievements of key Black British individuals over history, in collaboration with the 100 Great Black Britons campaign founded and run by Patrick Vernon OBE and Dr Angelina...
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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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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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After the love has gone - Dougies
ORIGINALLY a cinema back in 1910, Dougies went on to become a hugely important nightclub in the black music scene from 1983 until its closure in 2007...
The club was first opened in 1983 by Mr. Irvine Douglas who had previously owned a pop...
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Case Study Motherland
An epic film - shot in Britain, Africa, the Caribbean and America - which follows the first ever descendants of African slaves as they 'return' to Africa armed with the science that will finally enable them to rediscover their lost African ...
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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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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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The Windrush Generation Legacy
The transformation of post war Britain started on 21 June 1948 with the first major wave of migration, the docking of MV Empire Windrush at Tilbury with 492 men and women from Jamaica and Trinidad. Although there has been a black presence i...
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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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100 Great Black Britons Book 2020
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A long-overdue book, 100 Great Black Britons honours the remarkable achievements of key Black British individuals over history, in collaboration with the 100 Great Black Britons campaign founded and run by Patrick Vernon OBE and Dr Angelina Osborne. With a foreword written by David Olusoga, this book includes a list of Black British names and accompanying portraits – including new role models and previously little-known historical figures. Each entry explores in depth the individual’s contribution to British history – a contribution that too often has been either overlooked or dismissed.
Home school competition to explore Black British History
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- Category: 100 Great Black Britons
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).
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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,
