Catherine Zeta-Jones, Diana, Jemima Khan, Queen Rania of Jordan, Samantha Cameron and Jerry Hall have all worn creations by this master tailor. But his life in high fashion belies his humble beginnings. He was a Barnado’s boy, raised in near poverty, who dreamed of making it big.
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March 12, 2021
BRITAIN’S GEORGE III & THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
“The trade in slaves at this island is very great owing to our supplying the French with that valuable commodity,” he observed in a private letter to George III.
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March 11, 2021
THRONE OF BLOOD – THE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY
The Crown’s act of willful forgetting demonstrates how easy it was to overlook—then and now—the pivotal role played by the royal family in accelerating England’s involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the development of an Atlantic empire built on the backs and blood of African and Indigenous people.
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March 4, 2021
BILLIE HOLIDAY
The evocative, soulful voice which she boldly put forth as a force for good, turned any song she sang into her own. Today, Billie Holiday is remembered for her musical masterpieces, her songwriting skills, creativity and courageous views on inequality and justice.
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March 1, 2021
BEN OKRI
“To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself.”
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February 26, 2021
BAABA MAAL
Baaba Maal released in 1991 Baayo and in 1994 Firin’In Fouta, two albums that again combined traditional Western African rhythms and instruments to more modern sonorities notably with the intervention of several European musicians.
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February 24, 2021
BEYONCE KNOWLES CARTER
Beyoncé has sold over 75 million CDs worldwide as a solo artist since her first release in 2003.
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February 19, 2021
BOBBY SEALE
If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.
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February 9, 2021
UK: WHITE BRITISH SEAMEN’S BROTHERHOOD APPEAL FOR BLACK AND ASIAN SEAMEN TO GO BACK WHERE THEY CAME FROM, 1932
“The time has arrived for both black and yellow seamen to be sent their native countries, and not remain here to be maintained by British funds ready to supplant white labour”.
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February 7, 2021
BURMA ROAD UPRISING, BAHAMAS, 1942
As importantly, they joined with a growing number of political activists to demand independence from Great Britain. That independence finally came thirty- one years later on July 10, 1973.