(ThyBlackMan.com) For some strange reason, but then again it’s not so strange, the recent wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was presented as if it were some sort of landmark event. In reality, though, we have always been in the British Isles and in every level of society. Let us start at the beginning, the very beginning. . .
5,000,000 years ago human life begins in Africa
200,000 years ago there lived a woman in Africa that all humans are descended from
5,000 years ago the Great Pyramid at Gizah built at the start of the Egyptian Empire
1500 – 330 BC the Kingdom of Kush flourished in Northeast Africa
400 – 1650 AC The African Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhay ruled West Africa
711 – 1492 Africans rule Spain, spurring the development of the European Renaissance
1620 – 1808 Enslaved Africans brought to the Caribbean
1761– 1818 Queen Charlotte, Black Queen of Great Britain
1655 – First of many Maroon communities established in the Caribbean
1834 – Slavery ends in the British Empire
1914 – 1918 16,500 Caribbean soldiers serve in the British army in First World War
1914 – 1918 15,000 migrants go to Northwest England to work in munitions plants
1939 – 1945 16,000 Caribbean soldiers and sailors serve in Second World War
1941 – 345 Caribbean migrant workers brought to Liverpool
1948 – British Nationality Act, citizenship and right of entry for all in the British colonies
1948 – Windrush sails to London with 492 migrants beginning British multicultural era
1958 – In Notting Hill bands of white youths attack Caribbean residents
1959 – Claudia Jones editor of West Indian Gazette holds carnival in St. Pancras Town Hall
1962 – Commonwealth Immigrants Act sharply restricts the entrance of immigrants
1964 – Notting Hill Carnival, largest street festival in Europe, now attracts more than 1.5 million
1981 – Brixton riots, one of a series of uprisings throughout Britain from 1980 – 1985
1987 – Diane Abbott became the first Black female member of the House of Commons
1998 – Windrush Square dedicated in Brixton on 50th anniversary of the ship’s arrival
1993 – Macpherson Report, claims institutional racism in London’s Metropolitan Police
2011 – Uprising in African Caribbean communities in London and spreads through UK
2016 – a statue of Mary Seacole was erected at St. Thomas Hospital in London
2017 – the Windrush Scandal, reports first surface that the children of Commonwealth immigrants arriving before 1973 were threatened by government officials with loss of social services and deportation, and some were, in fact, sent out of the country.
Thus we see that the African Diaspora spreads far and wide over the earth and down through the ages. In fact, you would be hard pressed to find any religion, science or civilization that was not initiated by people of the darkest hues.
Staff Writer; Arthur Lewin
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