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Justin Fashanu – the first openly gay male professional footballer

Justin Fashanu – the first openly gay male professional footballer & first Black British footballer to command a £1 million transfer fee

Pablo Fanque – master horseman and first Black circus owner in Britain

Arthur Wharton -probably the first Black professional footballer in the world

Arthur Wharton (28 October 1865 – 12 December 1930) is widely considered to be the first Black professional footballer in the world.

Kemi Badenoch - the right-wing MP who could become the first Black leader of the Conservative party

Kemi Badenoch - the Tory right-wing MP who could become the first Black leader of the Conservative party

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How the West African Student Union (WASU) campaigned for the end of colonial rule in West Africa

#BHMUK22 Sharing Journeys campaign - learn how the West Africa Student Union (WASU) campaigned for the end of colonial rule in West Africa

Lapido Solanke - was a political activist and founder of the influential WASU

Black History Month UK 2022 'Sharing Journeys' campaign - exploring the lives of Britons with West African heritage - Lapido Solanke

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Ottobah Cugoano - the radical Abolitionist & first African to publicly call for the end of slavery

Black History Month UK 2022 'Sharing Journeys' campaign - exploring the lives of Britons with West African heritage Quobna Ottobah...

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