People, Places, Events   

Daley Thompson was born in Notting Hill, London, the second son of a British Nigerian father, Frank Thompson, who ran a minicab firm, and Scottish mother, Lydia, from Dundee. When Thompson was six, his father left home. At seven years old, Lydia sent Thompson to Farney Close Boarding School, Bolney, Sussex, which he described as "a place for troubled children".

Betty Campbell MBE (6 November 1934 – 13 October 2017, born Rachel Elizabeth Johnson) was a Welsh community activist, who was Wales' first black head teacher. Born into a poor household in Butetown, she won a scholarship to the Lady Margaret High School for Girls in Cardiff. Campbell later trained as a teacher, eventually becoming Head Teacher of Mount Stuart Primary School in Butetown, Cardiff.

'Ten bob in Winter' is a short film on class snobbery within the British Caribbean community and was made by pioneering Jamaican actor-director Lloyd Reckord. Lloyd Reckord (26 May 1929 – 8 July 2015) actor, film maker, and stage director lived in England for some years. Reckord appeared in 1958 in a West End production of Hot Summer Night, which as an ITV adaptation broadcast on 1 February 1959 contained the earliest known example of an interracial kiss on television.

Born on 6 August 1934 at Angelina Street, Butetown, Cardiff, Billy Boston was the sixth of eleven children born to John Boston (a merchant seaman from Sierra Leone) and Nellie who came from Cardiff's Irish community. William John Boston, MBE is a Welsh former professional rugby league footballer who played as a wing or centre.

Wandsworth Windrush Celebrations Windrush Day takes place on 22 June, the day migrants from the Caribbean arrived at Tilbury Docks in Essex in 1948. It honours the contributions of nearly half a million Caribbean people who moved to the UK between then and 1971, shaping the social, cultural and economic life of the nation. On Wednesday 19 June 2024, a fundraising event took place to support the production of "The Story of Flip Fraser: a Windrush Story".

Hackney, as a borough, celebrates Black culture and history all year round. By celebrating these stories, theatres like the Hackney Empire can continue to bring Arts programmes that can not only unmask, repair and prevent the hidden wounds of racial trauma on Black and the Global Majority children and families in Hackney; but also, share and celebrate African and African-Caribbean heritage and culture in Hackney and around the world.

Patricia Gallan, QPM (Queen’s Police Medal), is a Non-Executive Director at HMRC. Patricia Gallan is a former British police officer who served as Assistant Commissioner Specialist Crime and Operations of the Metropolitan Police in London, making her the highest-ranking black woman in British policing history.

St Agnes Place was a squatted street in Kennington, south London, which resisted eviction orders for more than 30 years. When a number of derelict houses were scheduled for demolition to extend Kennington Park in 1969, squatters occupied the properties and a High Court injunction prevented the demolition.

Joy Gardner was born Joy Burke in Long Bay Beach, Jamaica, in May 1953, Her mother, Myrna Simpson, emigrated to the United Kingdom from Jamaica – then still a British colony – in 1961, with the intention of sending for her child once she had achieved some financial stability, a common and accepted practice at the time. Simpson subsequently became a British citizen. Prior to 1981, Gardner would have had the right to British citizenship through her mother, but changes to immigr