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BLACK HISTORY

Find out more about Black people in history, including the history of the Caribbean islands, people in Black British Life, profile, pictures and useful links.

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Black History

CLAUDIA JONES WALK
Claudia Jones WALK Sunday 22nd August 2010 at 10am Led by actress Jacqui Charles with special guest television star Rudolph Walker OBE.

MOTHERLAND
A historical event in African cinema. Be there when the best documentary on Africa is screened for the first time in the UK. The follow up to the epic multi-award winning documentary 500 Years Later

HIDDEN HERSTORIES
Hidden Herstories: Women of Change' is a youth-led heritage project which looks at four influential women who haven't had their rightful place in the history books. The film exposes the plights and determination of Octavia Hill, Amy Ashwood Garvey, Claudia Jones and Jayaben Desai.

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR AND PINE
A free audio-visual presentation and discussion led by Mia Morris, Keven Le Gendre and Kwaku, focused on the lives and works of British African classical copmposer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and jazz stylist Courtney Pine, as part of Harrow Black History Season.

NARM EXHIBITION
NARM photographic exhibition 2010 have free open days on the first days of the 4 exhibition periods, when the curator Kwaku will be on hand to talk through the significance of the photohgraphed subjects in relation to African British history.

CY GRANT
Black History, once a year: cure or concession? An exploration by Cy Grant. I have come to question more and more, the true motives behind this annual sequence of events.

LAND CAUGHT IN A TIME WARP
Enrico Stennett was born in 1926 in a village in Jamaica named Maroon Town. Enrico Stennett arrived in the UK in 1947, at the age of 19, where within months he became a member of the League of Coloured People.

LIVING ANCESTORS
A unique installation of portraits of Dominican centenarians at Shunt by Gabrielle Le Roux, a tribute in portraits and stories to the world's oldest woman, Ma Pampo, and nine other Dominican centenarians.

Gabrielle Le Roux exhibit, Living Ancestors,

MARLON JAMES
The Book of Night Women, a stylish historical novel of Jamaican slavery - rebellions simmer, incidents of sadism and madness run rampant, and the tangled web of power relationships dramatically unravels amid dangerous secrets, unspoken jealousies, inhuman violence, and very human emotion.

CARIBBEAN LANGUAGES
These events will be of interest and relevance to a range of people preparing for the 2009 Autumn Black History Season, including Teachers from Early Years, Schools and Colleges and Staff working in Offender Services.

KELSO COCHRANE HONOURED
50 years to the day, after the violent murder of North Kensington resident Kelso Cochrane, the Nubian Jak Community Trust is to install a Blue Plaque at the Grove Inn Restaurant & Bar, as part of the The Kelso Cochrane Weekend Events 15th -17th May 2009.

WALTER TULL
Walter Tull is famed as the first black outfield professional football player in this country and the first black officer in the British Army. The Walter Tull Exhibition is at the Dover Library From 11th May to 29th June 2009.

CARIBBEAN AIR CREW WWII
Not many people in Britain today are aware that during World War II, there were over 400 air crew from the Caribbean who flew with the RAF.

Archive of Caribbean Air Crew in the Royal Air Force, WW II

More Caribbean History info

John Archer - London's first Black Mayor

Ira Aldridge - the famous Shakespearean actor

Henry Sylvester Williams - Trinidadian Pan-Africanist

Celebrating the Life of Amy J

acques Garvey.
Click here for more on Amy Jacques Garvey

Queen Charlotte, wife of the English King George III. Black Blood in the British Royal Family?
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Find out more about Caribbean History.
Barbados Dominica Grenada Jamaica St Lucia Trinidad Tobago More to come...