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Official Black History Month Listings

Black History Month

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VIDEO: Calling the West Indies

'Calling the West Indies', how people from the Caribbean supported the war effort in World War 2. Constantine speaks about factory workers, and introduces some war-workers,

West Indies Calling

VIDEO: Empire of Cricket

How West Indian cricketing heroes have always understood that their achievements on the field could help inspire and define an idea of West Indian identity beyond the boundary.

Empire of Cricket

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> The Face Within by SJ Blenman
> Beyond Downton Abbey - Diane Abbott
> Luton: 'An audience with Dr. Umar Johnson'

> Black & Asian performance in Britain 1940- . 1969
> Black History Literature Timeline
> Black History Film timeline

Black History Features

Politics

Black History Sports

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> The Windrush Generation
> London, slavery and abolition
> The Self Help Movement
> Joe Clough The first Black Bus Driver
> Black & Asian performance in Britain 1940- . 1969

> The first Black Parliamentarians in our times
> Diane Abbott
> Bill Morris
> Paul Boateng First Black Cabinet Minister
> Bernie Grant - Britain's first Black MP

> Olympic athletes in the 20th & 21st centuries
> Pelé - The Worlds favourite footballer
> Black British Olympic athletes since 1980
>Eddie Parris - Wales’ first black footballer

Community Profiles

Black History Heros

Community Features

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> Wangari Maathai
> Olaudah Equiano
> Mary Seacole
> Rosa Parks

> Could you foster a child?
> Adoption and who can adopt
> School-centred initial teacher training
> Training to be a nurse

> Anthony Nolan
> Bradford Adoption and Fostering
> NHS Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Screening
> FCA Fostering North West
> Brighton & Hove - Fostering & Adoption
> Mosaic Adoption and Permanence Service

Welsh Black History

History of Slavery

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> Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey
> Clive Sullivan Rugby's first black captain
> Black British Olympic athletes since 1980
>Eddie Parris - Wales’ first black footballer

> Liverpool and the Slave Trade
> Scotland and Slavery
>The Atlantic Slave Trade
>Life on board slave ships

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