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Batman Beyond S01E13 “Ascension”

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Mirko Hanák (1921 - 1971)

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Hi all,

October is UK Black History Month, so I’m going to be sharing posts this month featuring iconic Black British/Britain-based women.

Mary Prince was born in Bermuda on the 1st October 1788, making today her 233rd birthday. While visiting Britain, a change in the law allowed her to escape the family she was enslaved by, and she began working for the Anti-Slavery Society. During this time, she wrote her autobiography, “The History of Mary Prince”, believed to be the earliest autobiography of a black woman published in England. The book was so popular it was reprinted twice in its first year, and she has been credited as playing a ‘crucial role in the abolition campaign’. Unfortunately little is known about her later life, or when she died.

Mary Prince is featured in a permanent exhibition in the London Docklands Museum, and is commemorated by a plaque near where she lived in Bloomsbury.

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Ivory Bangle Lady and Beachy Head Lady

In 1901 a grave from the 4th century AD was found in York. Nicknamed ‘the Ivory Bangle Lady’, the woman was around 20 when she died, and has been identified as having North African ancestry, though raised in Britain or Europe. She was buried with jewellery, a mirror, and the plaque shown above, which reads “Hail sister, may you live in God”.

The Beachy Head Lady, whose grave was found in East Sussex, lived in the 3rd century AD, and was identified as having Sub-Saharan African or Cypriot ancestry, though she grew up in England. Little else is known about her, as her grave was disturbed.

Both women have contributed to our modern knowledge of ancient Britain. The Ivory Bangle Lady has also been featured in multiple books, articles, and has been referenced in the House of Commons.

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Mary Seacole

Any list of black women associated with Britain has to include Mary Seacole – here depicted by her statue at St Thomas Hospital, London, where she overlooks the Houses of Parliament. This makes her one of only 80 named women depicted by a statue in the UK.

Seacole was born in 1805 in Kingstown, Jamaica, and learned nursing skills from her mother, and military doctors. She travelled widely, and ran several hotels in addition to her medical work.

During the Crimean War, Seacole applied to the British War Office to travel to Crimea to nurse, but was rejected, and instead travelled using her own resources. She built a hotel, supplied the army, and provided medical care to the soldiers.

Seacole returned to Britain following the war, and engaged in various business ventures here and in Jamaica. She died in 1881. Her grave was rediscovered in 1973. Her legacy has been disrupted by controversies, many of which have been attributed solely to racism. Despite this, she is now commemorated by many buildings in her name, an annual nursing prize, and the aforementioned statue.

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Olive Morris

Olive Morris was born in Jamaica in 1952, and moved to Britain with her family when she was nine. She joined the British Black Panther Movement in her 20s, following an incident of racist police violence in her teens, and co-founded the Brixton Black Women’s group aged 22. She was also part of the squatting movement in Brixton.

She attended Manchester University in her mid-20s, co-founding Manchester Black Women's Co-operative and the Black Women's Mutual Aid Group. She also founded the Organisation for Women of African and Asian Descent.

Morris died in 1979 aged only 27, of Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma. A Lambeth Council building is named after her, as is a children’s park, and a bursary for young black women‘s education.

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History is being made every day, so I’ll also be sharing modern Black British Women this month.

From left to right, top to bottom:

Dina Asher-Smith is the fastest British woman in recorded history, with medals for sprinting from the World Championships, European Championships, and Olympic Games.

Kadeena Cox is a para-sprinter and para-cyclist, with Paralympic medals in athletics and cycling, as well as national medals in running prior to her multiple sclerosis diagnosis.

Tessa Sanderson is a six-time Olympian, competing in javelin and heptathlon, and was the first black British woman to win an Olympic gold medal.

Nicola Adams is an undefeated former boxer, the first female boxer to win Olympic gold medal, and the first double Olympic champion in women’s boxing. She is an out lesbian, and the first out LGBT person to win an Olympic boxing gold medal.

Kelly Holmes is a retired middle distance athlete, holding the British record over 600m and 1000m distances. She has eight medals from the Olympics, World Championships, and European Championships.

Alice Dearing is the first black woman to represent Britain in swimming at the Olympics, specialising in open water swimming. She also co-founded the Black Swimming Association.

Kare Adenegan is a wheelchair sprinter, with five Paralympic and five World Championship medals to her name, aged (at time of writing) only 20.

Katarina Johnson-Thompson is a medal-winning heptathlete, and British record holder in heptathlon and pentathlon.

Denise Lewis is a sports presenter and former heptathlete, with Olympic and World Championship medals, and was the first European to win the Olympic heptathlon.

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Anita Neil

Anita Neil is the first black woman to compete for Britain at the Olympics, in 1968 and 1972. She also won three European Championship medals. Her portrait hangs in Wellingborough Museum, in her home town.

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Shirley Thompson

Shirley Thompson is a conductor, composer, and violinist. Her compositions include symphonies, ballets, operas, concertos, and music for tv and film. She has also written pieces to commemorate 1,000 years of London, slavery abolition, and the Windrush landing, as well as co-scoring the award-winning ballet PUSH.

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Moira Stewart

Moira Stewart is a presenter and broadcaster, who has featured in numerous television shows and radio programmes. She was the first Caribbean woman newsreader on British national television.

Barbara Blake Hannah

Barbara Blake Hannah is a Jamaican author and journalist, who was the first black person to be an on-camera reporter and interviewer on British television. Though she was let go due to the racism of viewers, she continued contributing to British journalism, before returning to Jamaica to work as a film maker, and becoming a senator in Jamaican parliament.

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Elizabeth Anionwu

Elizabeth Anionwu is an Emeritus Professor of Nursing, and was the UK’s first sickle cell and thalassaemia specialist nurse. She created the Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice at the University of West London, and is patron of the Mary Seacole Trust and a number of other nursing charities. She is a member of the Nursing Hall of Fame, several honorary doctorates, and a Lifetime Achievement Pride of Britain award.

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Gabrielle

Gabrielle is a singer-songwriter, best known for her song ‘Dreams’. Dreams was a number 1 hit, having entered the charts at number 2, the highest entry for a debut at the time. She‘s had many hits since. Her song ‘Out of Reach’ featured on the soundtrack of Bridget Jones’s Diary.

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Phyllis Wheatley

Phyllis Wheatley was the earliest known published black author of a book of poetry. Born in West Africa in ~1753, she was sold into slavery as a child, and took on the surname of the American family she was enslaved by. Her book of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published during a trip to London in 1773. She died in 1784.

Wheatley is part of the Boston Women’s Memorial, has several Boston university buildings named after her, and is memorialised by a blue plaque in London.

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Michaela Coel

Michaela Coel is an actress, screenwriter, director, producer and singer. She is best known for her programmes ‘Chewing Gum’ and ‘I May Destroy You’. ‘Chewing Gum’ earned Coel a BAFTA, and ‘I May Destroy You’ made her the first black woman to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Screenwriting. Coel has also starred in ‘Black Mirror’, ‘Black Earth Rising’, and ‘Been So Long’, as well as writing a manifesto, ‘Misfits’.

Weruche Opia Weruche Opia is a Nigerian actress and entrepreneur, who costarred in ’I May Destroy You’. She has also featured in ‘Bad Education’ and ‘Inside No. 9’, as well as running her own clothing line.

Susan Wokoma Susan Wokoma is an actress and writer, who costarred in ‘Chewing Gum’. She is also known for her work in ‘Crazyhead’ and ‘Enola Holmes’, as well as stage work, and writing for various television programmes.

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Margaret Busby

Margaret Busby is a Ghanaian publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, and is Britain's first black female book publisher. She edited the anthologies Daughters of Africa and New Daughters of Africa, and has written her own articles, screenplays, and books. She has won the Benson Medal, as well as numerous other awards and honours, including traditional Ghanaian honours.

Buchi Emecheta

Buchi Emecheta was a Nigerian-born, UK-based writer of more than 20 novels, as well as plays and an autobiography. Many of her early novels were published by Allison and Busby, under Margaret Busby. A literary foundation and library exhibition space have been founded in her name.

Bernardine Evaristo

Bernardino Evaristo is an author and academic, whose book ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ made her the first black woman to win the Booker Prize. She was also the first woman of colour to reach number 1 in the paperback fiction charts. She has founded prizes, mentoring schemes, theatre companies, and conferences, as part of her advocacy for people of colour in the arts. She is one of less than 30 black female professors in the UK.

Candice Carty-Williams

Candice Carty-Williams is a writer, known for her novel ‘Queenie’, her articles, and her contribution to New Daughters of Africa. She is the first black woman to win the British Book Awards ‘Book of the Year’ award.

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith is an author and professor of creative writing. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, has won the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Langston Hughes Medal, and her debut novel ‘White Teeth’ was named one of the 100 best English-language novels published between 1923 and 2005.

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Cush Jumbo

Cush Jumbo is an English actor. She is known for her television and stage work - including starring in her own one-woman play about Josephine Baker, and winning a Lawrence Olivier award for her role in an all-female Julius Caesar.

Lashana Lynch

Lashana Lynch is an actress, who played the first female 007 in the Bond film ‘No Time To Die’, as well as featuring in Marvel films and various television work.

Amma Asante

Amma Asante is a filmmaker, screenwriter, and ex-actress. She is also Chancellor of Norwich University of the Arts. Her first film, ‘A Way of Life’, won the Alfred Dunhill UK Film Talent Award, though she is better known for her second film, ‘Belle’, about Dido Elizabeth Belle.

Ngozi Onwurah is a British-Nigerian film director, producer, and lecturer. Her films include ‘And Still I Rise’ based on Maya Angelou’s work, ‘The Body Beautiful’ an autobiographical piece, and ’Welcome II the Terradome’, which was the first independent Black British feature film to be released.

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Mom said it’s my turn on the Xbox

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Marvel artists turned Black Influencers and Athletes into super versions of themselves.

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This is too awesome not to reblog… Marvel is so badass and these black women!! Slay!

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Misty Copeland is an inspiration for one of the characters in the comic I did for school

And all this post did was make me fall in love with all these heroes again

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ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

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This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.

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I got chills all over

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PASS THIS ON.

The first transgender suicide hotline is now up and running in the U.S. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860.

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Yup.

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Representation matters.

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[image description: a poster with African American men in armed struggle with the US Capitol building in the background and the words “Oppose Racial Discrimination!” behind them as well. The Chinese reads, “Firmly support American blacks in their righteous struggle!”]

“Firmly support American blacks in their righteous struggle!”

Chinese CCP propaganda poster from the 1960s at the height of the US Civil Rights movement, calling for solidarity with African-Americans in opposition to white American racism and imperialism.

Related Posts:

Black Africans in Chinese CCP Propaganda

(h/t chineseposters.net, drzzl.com)

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HELP

Can anybody suggest good books that falls under the category of Afro-Asian Literature? I need books that would be worth reading. Please.

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FOH 🎓💅🏽