UK Black History 365

We're committed to telling you about UK Black History 365 days of year.

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Throughout January, we'll be exploring and celebrating unsung heroes from heroes from Black British history in the fields of Civil Rights, Economics and Politics.

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Do you know who was…

• The first Black Briton to vote in a General Election

• The Nobel Prize winner who was also the first Black person to hold a chair in a British University and first Black faculty member at the London School of Economics

• The lauded mother of the Notting Hill Carnival

• The first female Black radio producer at the BBC who founded the legendary Caribbean Voices radio show of the 1940s and 1950s.

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