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People, Places, Events


August 15th: Today's Feature - Liverpool
Liverpool: Windrush brothers helped shape Liverpool 8's thriving music scene. Granddaughters share stories of three brothers who came to Liverpool from Jamaica who travelled on the Empire Windrush 75+ years ago.
Aug 15


August 14th: Today's Feature - Black Heroes in the Hall of Fame
Black Heroes in the Hall of Fame was created by the late Flip Fraser in collaboration with JD Douglas and Khareem Jamal. The show was launched in London at the Shaw Theatre in July 1987 with the assistance of a modest grant from Camden Council to celebrate the centenary of Marcus Garvey. After its sell out launch, and driven by the massive demand of the Black community to see it, the show re-opened the doors of the Hackney Empire Theatre (which at the time was operating as a
Aug 14


August 13th: Today's Feature - Earl Cameron, CBE; Actor
Earlston Jewitt Cameron, CBE, (8 August 1917 – 3 July 2020), known as Earl Cameron, was a Bermudian actor who lived and worked in the United Kingdom. After appearing on London's West End stage, he became one of the first black stars in the British film industry. With his appearance in 1951's Pool of London, Cameron became one of the first black actors to take up a starring role in a British film after Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney and Elisabeth Welch in the 1930s.
Aug 13


August 12th: Today's Feature - Margaret Busby; Publisher, Editor, Writer and Broadcaster
Margaret Yvonne Busby, CBE, Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisher when she and Clive Allison (1944–2011) co-founded the London-based publishing house Allison and Busby (A & B) in the 1960s.
Aug 12


August 11th: Today's Feature - Linda Lewis; Singer, Songwriter, Musician
Linda Lewis was born in Custom House, Newham, in 1950. Her parents were of British-Guyanese and Jamaican heritage. She was raised primarily by her mother, who was a jazz singer. Lewis attended stage school and was regularly cast in non-speaking television and film roles such as A Taste of Honey (1961); she appeared as a screaming fan in the first Beatles film, A Hard Day's Night (1964) and also sang to the public.
Aug 11


August 10th: Today’s Feature - Brixton
Brixton is mainly residential, though includes Brixton Market and a substantial retail sector. It is a multi-ethnic community, with a large percentage of its population of Afro-Caribbean descent. It lies within Inner London and is bordered by Stockwell, Clapham, Streatham, Camberwell, Tulse Hill, Balham and Herne Hill.The district houses the main offices of Lambeth London Borough Council.
The name Brixton is thought to originate from Brixistane, meaning the stone of Brixi, a
Aug 10


August 9th: Todays Feature - Daley Thompson, CBE; Decathlete, Owner of Daley Fitness Gym
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".
Aug 9


August 8th: Today’s Feature - Betty Campbell, MBE; Head Teacher, Community Activist
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.
Aug 8


August 7th: Today’s Feature - 'Ten bob in Winter
'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.
Aug 7
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