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Topics Covered:

February 1st 1959 - Britain's first onscreen interracial kiss

February 2nd 2018 - Announcement that The Big Narstie Show was commissioned by Channel 4

February 3rd 1965 - Birth of Dave Benson Phillips

February 4th 2011 - Formal registration of Memorial 2007 as a charity

February 5th 1940 - Ita Ekpenyon enrols as an Air Raid Precautions warden

February 6th 2020 - Press night for Death of England

February 7th 2008 - Official opening of the Stephen Lawrence Centre 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7230503.stm

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Topics Covered:

January 25th 1981: New Cross Fire Meeting

https://woodsmokeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1981-bufp-new-cross-massacre.pdf

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/darcus-howe-a-political-biography/ch14-thirteen-dead-and-nothing-said.pdf?dl

January 26th 2020: Jo Martin becomes the first Black doctor

January 27th 2018: Reimagining Black Britain Conference

https://issuu.com/reimaginingblkbritainconf/docs/_re-imagining_black_britain__-_conf

January 28th 2017: End of The Missing Chapter: Black Chronicles

https://vimeo.com/206429005

January 29th 1900: Death of William Craft - a formerly enslaved man who settled in the UK

https://www.history.com/news/slavery-escape-william-ellen-craft

https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/articles/news/2021/10/hammersmith-blue-plaque-celebrates-abolitionists-and-former-slaves

January 30th 1959: London’s first televised Caribbean Carnival

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/18/world/europe/notting-hill-carnival-claudia-jones.html

https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2013/08/birth-of-notting-hill-carnival

January 31st 2011: Rastamouse airs for the first time

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/rastamouse-mania-meet-the-man-behind-the-reggaeloving-rodent-6570619.html

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Topics Covered:

January 18th 1981: New Cross Fire

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/15/how-the-new-cross-fire-became-a-rallying-cry-for-political-action

January 19th 1965: Pearl Prescod plays Tituba at the National Theatre 

https://blackbritishreader.tumblr.com/post/621886762995908608/pearl-prescod-1920-25-june-1966-pearl 

January 20th 1919: Birth of Roy Francis 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/54695638

January 21st 1950: Birth of Billy Ocean 

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/05/billy-ocean-family-values 

January 22nd 1982: Dread Broadcasting Corp features on the Oxford Roadshow

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/archive/dread-broadcasting-corporation/z6cn2sg 

January 23rd 1919: The 1919 Glasgow Race Riots

https://www.thenational.scot/news/17376881.glasgow-1919---race-riot-scotland-rather-forget/

January 24th 2016: End of the No Colour Bar Exhibition 

https://www.nocolourbar.org/exhibition 

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Topics Covered:

January 11th 2016: Death of Sarah Reed

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/17/sarah-reeds-mother-deaths-in-custody-holloway-prison-mental-health 

January 12th 1859: Sarah Parker Remond arrives in Liverpool

https://london.ac.uk/news-and-opinion/leading-women/a-voice-freedom-life-sarah-parker-remond 

January 13th 1975: Bunny Johnson is crowed British Heavyweight Champion

https://www.britishvintageboxing.com/post/bunny-johnson-the-long-slow-path-to-boxing-history

January 14th 2018: Death of Cyrille Regis

https://www.caribbeanintelligence.com/content/kick-black-footballers-cyrille-regis

January 15th 2001: Publication of Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/mar/malorie-blackman-why-she-wrote-noughts-crosses.html 

January 16th 1959: Birth of Sade

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/sade

January 17th 1978: Bookshop Join Action picket the Home Office  

https://www.georgepadmoreinstitute.org/the-pioneering-years/new-beacon-books-early-history/towards-radical-black-publishing-space/bookshop

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Topics covered:

January 4th 2011: Death of Ken Martindale, founder of Black British Heritage

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2011/mar/09/ken-martindale-obituary 

January 5th 1989: Desmond's debuts on Channel 4

https://britsandpcs.com/desmonds-successfully-depicting-black-british-lives-from-the-early-1990s/ 

January 6th 1993: The Chrystal Rose Show (first UK talk show hosted by a woman) debuts on Carlton TV 

https://madnewsuk.com/2019/01/20/black-britain-the-chrystal-rose-show-1993-1997/ 

January 7th 2004: Black Ambition - a show following 8 undergraduates at the University of Cambridge - debuts on BBC Two. 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/3324427/People-say-You-went-to-Cambridge.html 

January 8th 1970: Death of George Arthur Roberts - one of Britain's first Black firefighters

https://www.georgearthurroberts.com/

January 9th 1988: Rok Da House, a single featuring Cookie Crew (one of the UK’s most successful rap duos), peaks at #5 in the UK charts

http://musicrareobscure.blogspot.com/2010/01/cookie-crew.html 

January 10th 1965: CARD - Campaign Against Racial Discrimination launches 

https://www.runnymedetrust.org/histories/race-equality/55/campaign-against-racial-discrimination-card.html

Topics covered:

December 28th 1940: Evelyn Dove appears in the performance listings of the Midland Daily Newspaper

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000337/19401228/016/0002 

December 29th 2018: End of rapper Derek B's exhibition at Redbridge Museum

https://www.blackouthiphop.com/derek-b-the-woodford-rapper-exhibition/

December 30th 2012: A Nubian Jak blue plaque, dedicated to Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is unveiled in Croydon

https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/samuel-coleridge-taylor-musical-legend-black-cultural-archives/3AKiGhRCgoqtLQ?hl=en

December 31st 2010: The World Festival of Black Arts comes to an end  

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/jan/03/world-festival-of-black-arts-kwei-armah

January 1st 1949: The 1948 British Nationality Act comes into force

https://www.runnymedetrust.org/blog/british-citizenship-and-the-windrush-generation

January 2nd 1988: Mark Walters makes his debut for Rangers

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42371953

January 3rd 1971: A house party in Ladywell is petrol bombed

Correction: the address of the party was 47 Sunderland Road, not 47 Sutherland Road.

https://woodsmokeblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1971-black-voice.pdf 

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Topics Covered:

December 21st 1923: Birth of Connie Mark, community activist and founding president of the Mary Seacole Memorial Association

December 22nd 2013: JLS play their final gig 

December 23rd 1957: Birth of Trisha Goddard

December 24th 1964: Death of Claudia Jones

December 25th 1979: Boney M and Janet Kay appear on Top of The Pops Christmas Special

December 26th 1916: Death of George Bemand, first Black officer in the British Army 

December 27th 1977: The bookshop Bogle L'Ouverture is attacked

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Topics Covered: 

December 14th 1780 - Death of Ignatius Sancho 

https://www.bl.uk/people/ignatius-sancho#

https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/sancho1/sancho1.html

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/record-of-ignatius-sanchos-vote-in-the-general-election-october-1774

December 15th 1787 - Sons of Africa write to Granville Sharp

https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/15/today-in-london-black-history-1787-anti-slave-abolitionists-the-sons-of-africa-write-to-granville-sharp + Book: Memoirs of Granville Sharp, Esq By Prince Hoare

December 16th 1971 - End of the trial of the Mangrove 9 

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/nov/10/landmarks-in-law-when-the-mangrove-nine-beat-the-british-state

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/jGD9WJrVXf/the-mangrove-nine-black-lives-matter

December 17th 1814 - Royal Cornwall Gazette writes of Joseph Emidy

https://www.jstor.org/stable/964272?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

[Music taken from] https://emidyproject.wordpress.com/

https://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2020/10/05/history-of-black-british-musicians/

December 18th 1994 - Death of Lord Pitt

https://jennettearnold.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Echoes-A5-red.pdf

https://thecritic.co.uk/fifty-years-on-the-battle-to-elect-britains-first-black-mp/

December 19th 1966 - First meeting of the Caribbean Artists Movement

https://www.bl.uk/windrush/articles/caribbean-artists-movement-1966-1972

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/40653055.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A336c17c374625eb77beb8df58a9df49b

December 20th 2018 - End of exhibition on Black British Cyclist Champions 

https://road.cc/content/news/252880-made-britain-exhibition-look-life-histories-black-british-champions-cycling 

https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/news-and-events/news/2019/06-27-sir-bradley-wiggins-visits-brighton-academics-cycling-exhibition.aspx 

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Topics Covered:

December 7th 2019 - Anthony Joshua regains his unified heavyweight titles

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/50701313#:~:text=Anthony%20Joshua%20became%20a%20two,tense%20rematch%20in%20Saudi%20Arabia

December 8th 1965 - The 1965 Race Relations Act comes into force 

https://irr.org.uk/article/the-race-relations-act-1965-blessing-or-curse/

December 9th 1999 - Liverpool City Council apologises for its role in the slave trade

https://bbc.co.uk/liverpool/content/articles/2007/02/15/abolition_liverpool_apology_feature.shtml 

December 10th 1949 - QPR's first Black player makes his debut for the club

https://www.qpr.co.uk/news/features/tommy-best-in-profile/

December 11th 1975 - The final series of Love Thy Neighbour begins airing 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Thy_Neighbour_(1972_TV_series)

December 12th 1982 - Daley Thompson is crowned Sports Personality of The Year

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/sports-personality/24652938  

December 13th 2008 - Alexandra Burke duets with Beyoncé(!) and wins the X Factor https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/dec/14/x-factor-alexandra-burke

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