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Black British

Black British is a term which has had different meanings and uses as a racial and political label. Historically it has been used to refer to any non-white British national. The term was first used at the end of the British Empire, when several major colonies formally gained independence and thereby...
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Diane Abbott

Diane Julie Abbott (born 27 September 1953) is a British Labour politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Hackney North and Stoke Newington since 1987, when she became the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons. She...

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  • Sep 27, 1953 (age 56 years)

Lenny Henry

Lenworth George "Lenny" Henry CBE (born 29 August 1958) is an English actor, writer, comedian and occasional television presenter. Henry, the son of Jamaican immigrants, was born at Burton Road Hospital in Dudley in 1958. He was a pupil at St John's...

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  • Aug 29, 1958 (age 51 years)

Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell (born 22 May 1970) is an English model of Jamaican descent. Campbell was born in Streatham, London, England. Her mother, Valerie Campbell (née Morris), is a former ballet dancer of Afro-Jamaican descent. In accordance with her mother...

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  • May 22, 1970 (age 39 years)

Paul Boateng

Paul Yaw Boateng (born 14 June 1951) is a British Labour politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, becoming the UK's first black Cabinet Minister in May 2002, when he was appointed as Chief Secretary to the...

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  • Jun 14, 1951 (age 58 years)

Stephen Lawrence

The murder of Stephen Lawrence is a notable murder case surrounding the killing of a black British teenager from South-East London named Stephen Lawrence who was stabbed to death while waiting for a bus on the evening of 22 April 1993. After the...

Date of birth:

  • Sep 13, 1974

Date of death:

  • Apr 22, 1993 (age 18 years)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was an English composer who achieved such success he was called the "African Mahler". Coleridge-Taylor was born in Holborn, London, to a Sierra Leonean Creole father, Daniel Peter Hughes...

Date of birth:

  • Aug 15, 1875

Date of death:

  • Sep 1, 1912 (age 37 years)

Long Dong Silver

Long Dong Silver (Daniel Arthur Mead) is a retired porn star. He appeared in several pornographic movies in the UK and USA during the late 1970s and early 1980s, famed for the size of his penis (reputedly 18 inches / 45 centimeters), although it is...

Date of birth:

  • 1960 (age 50 years)

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (pronounced /ˌædɨˈwɑːleɪ ˌækɨˈnuː.eɪ/ ( listen); born 22 August 1967) is an English actor, solicitor, and former fashion model. Akinnuoye-Agbaje's first time on camera was in Mary J. Blige "Love No Limit" in 1993. Around the...

Date of birth:

  • Aug 22, 1967 (age 42 years)

Freema Agyeman

Freema Agyeman (born Frema Agyeman on 20 March 1979) is a British actress of Ghanaian and Iranian descent who is best known for playing Martha Jones, former companion of the Tenth Doctor in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, and...

Date of birth:

  • Mar 20, 1979 (age 30 years)

Dystin Johnson

Dystin Johnson is a British film and television actress. Johnson is best-known for playing Norma Starkey in Shameless. She has also had parts in Prime Suspect: The Final Act, Eastenders, The Bill and Holby City. She was also in the Paul Merton's...

Alexis Silver

Alexis Silver (born October 27, 1979 in Leeds, West Yorkshire) is a British pornographic actress, exotic dancer and model. After being born and growing up in Leeds, she emigrated to Los Angeles, California, where she now resides and works.

Date of birth:

  • Oct 27, 1979 (age 30 years)

Ola Ademola

Ola Ademola is a glamour model who has appeared in the British tabloid, The Sun as a Page 3 girl.
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