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100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.
- Molefi Kete Asante
- 2002
Black British or Black English was also a term for those Black and mixed-race people in Sierra Leone (known as the Creoles or the Krio(s)) who were descendants of migrants from England and Canada and identified as British.
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In 2002, the BBC launched a campaign and television series called 100 Greatest Britons, with the definition of a great Briton as "anyone who was born in the British Isles, or who has lived in the British Isles, and has played a significant part in the life of the British Isles". The series was the idea of Jane Root, then Controller of BBC Two, and ...
In 2019, the decision was taken to relaunch and update the 100 Great Black Britons poll 16 years after the first poll. This was made in reaction to the lack of awareness in the general of public to Black British culture, establishment in Britain and Black Britons in general, in addition to both the "Windrush scandal" and the 2016 United Kingdom Eur...
Patrick Vernon and Angelina Osborne, 100 Great Black Britons. Foreword by David Olusoga. London: Robinson, 2020, ISBN 1472144309.
This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans. African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or ...
Famous black people: Above: W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela. Below: Wangari Maathai , Rosa Parks , and Sojourner Truth . Black people is a term that is used for a racial group of people with a dark skin color.
List of African-American astronauts. List of black British writers. List of Black British artists. List of black fashion models. List of black photographers. List of composers of African descent. List of Indigenous Australian sportspeople. List of National Hockey League players of black African descent.
Nikole Hannah-Jones is the wildest dream fulfilled of the Black female journalists who wrote the truth of their times before her. This year, the New York Times Magazine reporter and six-time The Root 100 honoree earned crowning recognitions for her editorial brainchild, The 1619 Project, which recontextualized the Black American story starting with the arrival of the first enslaved Africans.
