Black Heritage Today UK

Jamaica has a fine collection of national heroes including Nanny of the Maroons, Sam Sharpe, Marcus Garvey, George William Gordon, Paul Bogle, Bustamante and Norman Manley.  The next one could be J A Rogers. One of the most interesting and dynamic Black historians and social commentators of modern times, J A Rogers, spent over fifty years [...]

Despite the current period of change and austerity within the National Health Service, it’s a good time to look back and acknowledge that it used to be worst than it is today and celebrate those who worked in it’s formative to present year to make Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) the envy of the world. [...]

The Jamaica 50th is to celebrate fifty years of being independent of the British Commonwealth, but prior to 1962 was a history that cannot be ignored. Jamaica is the third largest Caribbean island. It was inhabited by Arawak natives when – between 1492 and 1494 – it was it was sighted during the second voyage [...]

The story of Joseph Phillippe Lemercier Laroche – the only man of African descent to perish in the disaster – was only revealed thanks to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, host to the largest Titanic exhibit

Yes, we can! It has often been wistfully and passionately said that the ‘black’ communities need to mobilise, organise and create their own economic structure. But few people know that such a structure existed and thrived during the 20th Century.