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Jean "Binta" Breeze, MBE (11 March 1956 – 4 August 2021) was a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller, acknowledged as the first woman to write and perform dub poetry. She worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor, and teacher. She performed her work around the world, in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, South-East Asia, and Africa, and has been called "one of the most important, influential performance poets of recent years".

In August 1976 I was sent to cover the Notting Hill carnival for the Socialist Worker. There was the smell in the air of trouble brewing. The police had already said there was going to be a strong presence, because there had been some trouble the year before. Based on the fact – or fiction – that there were pickpockets in crowds, police in that period took a consistently heavy-handed approach to any large group of black people.

Born in Gloucester, England to Jamaican parents, by the age of 17, David Lawrence, was playing for Gloucestershire, opening the bowling with Courtney Walsh. His vigorous bowling action generated great pace, although at times he was also prone to inaccuracy. He toured Sri Lanka with an England 'B' side in 1985-6. He was later named the 1985 Cricket Writers' Club Young Cricketer of the Year.

The Voice, founded in 1982, is a British national African-Caribbean newspaper operating in the United Kingdom. The paper is based in London and was published every Thursday until 2019 when it became monthly. It is available in a paper version by subscription and also online. History The Voice was founded in 1982 by Val McCalla who was working on a London local paper called the East End News in 1981. He and a group of businesspeople and journalists created a weekly newspaper

Moira Clare Ruby Stuart, CBE, (born 2 September 1949) is a British presenter and broadcaster. She was the first female newsreader of Caribbean heritage to appear on British national television, having worked on BBC News since 1981. In a career spanning four decades, she has presented many television news and radio programmes for the BBC and, from 2010 for nine years, was the newsreader for The Chris Evans Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2.

Sir Richard Sheridan Patrick Michael Aloysius Franklin Bowling OBE RA, (26 February 1934) known as Frank Bowling, is a British artist who was born in British Guiana. He is particularly renowned for his large-scale, abstract "Map" paintings, which relate to abstract expressionism, colour field painting and lyrical abstraction. Bowling has been described as "one of Britain’s greatest living abstract painters", as "one of the most distinguished black artists to emerge from post-

The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual Caribbean festival event that has taken place in London since 1966 on the streets of the Notting Hill area of Kensington, each August over two days (the August bank holiday Monday and the preceding Sunday). It is led by members of the British Caribbean community, and attracts around two and a half million people annually, making it one of the world's largest street festivals, and a significant event in British African Caribbean and Briti

Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958 - 7 December 2023) was a British writer and dub poet. He was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008. Early life and Education Zephaniah was born and raised in the Handsworth district of Birmingham, England, which he has called the "Jamaican capital of Europe". He is the son of a Barbadian postman and a Jamaican nurse.

The Notting Hill race riots were a series of racially motivated riots that took place in Notting Hill, an area in the British capital of London, between 29 August and 5 September 1958.