Here are some websites and book suggestions to continue this educational journey. I hope some of these help you to understand the history of Black Britons.
General Overview of Black British History
The Black British History You May Not Know About
By Kameron Virk
Published: 8 June 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-52939694
Black British history on record
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/black-history/
Black Involvement in World War I & II
A White Man's War? World War One and the West Indies
By Glenford D Howe
Published: 10 June 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/west_indies_01.shtml
David Olusoga: 'Black soldiers were expendable – then forgettable'
By David Olusoga
Published: 11 November 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/11/david-olusoga-black-soldiers-first-world-war-expendable
Mutiny: Hidden Histories of Black British Soldiers in WWI
By Administrator
Published: 9 January 2020
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/mutiny/
Racism on British Streets
1958 Notting Hill race riots
By Ed
Published: 1 March 2019
http://libcom.org/history/1958-notting-hill-race-riots
Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech marked him out as the prototype Trump
By Sean O'Grady
Published: 18 April 2018
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/enoch-powell-rivers-blood-speech-50-years-trump-immigration-right-wing-a8299211.html
After 44 years secret papers reveal truth about five nights of violence in Notting Hill
By Alan Travis
Published: 24 August 2002
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/aug/24/artsandhumanities.nottinghillcarnival2002
SUS LAW SPARKED RIOTS
By Emily Miller
Published: 28 May 2007
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sus-law-sparked-riots-478125
‘The man who shot my mum is still living his life’: Cherry Groce's son on life after police brutality
By Simon Hattenstone
Published: 5 September 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/sep/05/the-man-who-shot-my-mum-is-still-living-his-life-cherry-groces-son-on-life-after-police-brutality
Brixton gun victim Cherry Groce 'was inspiration'
By Andy Dangerfield
Published: 10 July 2014
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28129201
NatCen Social Research: 30 years of British Social Attitudes self-reported racial prejudice data
https://www.bsa.natcen.ac.uk/media/38110/selfreported-racial-prejudice-datafinal.pdf
Books
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Book by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Black and British: A Forgotten History
Book by David Olusoga
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
Book by Akala
Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain
Book by Peter Fryer
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