Black Heritage Today UK

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.