by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 29, 2020 | News
We are a week away from our fourth event in our series of Courageous conversations and this topic certainly resonates strongly at the present time. The murder of George Floyd and the subsequent global, national, and local demonstrations of support have...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 28, 2020 | News
Sir Lenworth George Henry CBE (born 29 August 1958),[3] known as Lenny Henry, is a stand-up comedian, actor, singer, writer and television presenter, known for co-founding the charity Comic Relief, and appearing in TV programmes including children’s...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 27, 2020 | Events, News
William Cuffay (1788 – July 1870) was a Chartist leader in early Victorian London. Cuffay was mixed-race, he was born on a merchant ship in the West Indies in 1788, the son of a naval cook and former slave from St Kitts. His family later settled in Old...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 22, 2020 | News
Paul Stephenson OBE 6 May 1937 (age 83 years), is a community worker, activist and long-time campaigner for civil rights for the British African-Caribbean community in Bristol. Stephenson was born in Rochford, Essex in 1937 to a West African father and a...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 21, 2020 | News
Paulette Wilson (1956 – 23 July 2020) was a British immigrant rights activist who fought her own deportation to Jamaica and brought media attention to the human rights violations of the Windrush Scandal. Wilson was born in the British Colony of Jamaica in 1956,...
by Just Lincolnshire | Oct 20, 2020 | News
Dame Linda Penelope Dobbs, DBR (born 3 January 1951) in Freetown, Sierra Leone is a retired High Court Judge England and Wales, who served from 2004 to 2013. Dobbs was the first non-white person to be appointed to the senior judiciary of England and Wales. Dame...
