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Blackpresence
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Issues and information in black news and history, come and make your comment.
- Added on: Sep 28th, 2009
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Black Presence Website
- Listed in: Society Cultural
- Tags: african black history black diaspora black people
Recent Posts
The Unkown Soldiers
Although many Remembrance events will have taken place over the weekend, the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month will be marked by many with two minutes...
Claudia Jones – Activist
Claudia Jones Claudia Jones founded the first major black post- war newspaper -The West Indian Gazette; and also helped launch the Notting Hill Carnival.? Claudia Jones was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad in 1915 Cladia moved with her family to Harle...
Sarah Forbes Bonetta
Sarah Forbes Bonetta Sarah Forbes was a Yoruba girl captured by the King of Dahomey in 1848 during a war in which her parents were killed. She was given as a present to Commander Forbes when he was visited Dahomey as an emissary of the British Govern...
Francis Barber
Francis Barber Francis Barber was a servant and companion to the writer Samuel Johnson.? Francis Barber was born in Jamaica around 1735. He came to Britain with a planter from the island. For one year he went to school in the small village of Barton ...
Dido Elizabeth Bell Lindsay
Dido Elizabeth Lindsay In the 18th Century, some Black people in the Eighteenth Century were considerably more privileged than most. One such Woman was Dido Elizabeth Bell Lindsay. Dido was the daughter of Captain John Lindsay of the Royal Navy. She ...
Cy Grant – A War Memoir
Cy Grant was born in Guyana, Central America. He came to Britain in 1941 to join the Royal air Force and was a commissioned office by 1943. He later became a Prisoner of War and later a TV personality. Cy Grant was born in Guyana, Central America. H...
