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☆ ‘It was a massive thing’ to be England’s first Black football player, says Viv Anderson
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-07 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Yet despite the atrocious conditions, the fixture went ahead as planned, and after 90 minutes of less-than-inspiring football, England had beaten Czechoslovakia 1-0 at Wembley Stadium. More importantly, however, was the fact that Anderson had made history as the first Black player to represent the England national team. Up and down the country, Anderson says that racist abuse formed an ugly backdrop to some of his football career. “It’s one of those things we (Black players) all had to get through if we wanted to make a career,” he says. Whether it be on the playground, whether it be at home with nieces and nephews, I was always playing football.

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☆ London Overground gets a rebrand, with six new line names revealed
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

“The London Overground network has grown considerably over recent years. “Giving each of the six routes their own line name and colour will make travel on London Overground easier and simpler for our customers.”A London Overground train in orange livery. Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/hutterstockThe routes will be known as Lioness line, the Mildmay line, the Windrush line, the Weaver line, the Suffragette line and the Liberty line from autumn. The Mildmay line, which will appear as blue parallel lines, runs from Stratford to Richmond/Clapham Junction. The Suffragette line, which will be marked in green parallel lines, runs from Gospel Oak to Barking Riverside.

Persons: “, Haria, Mildmay, ”, London Sadiq Khan Organizations: CNN, London Overground, Transport, London, ”, TfL, England women’s, UEFA, Wembley, Liverpool Street, TFL Locations: London, Euston, Watford, Stratford, Richmond, Clapham, Shoreditch, Highbury, Islington, West Croydon, Caribbean, Cheshunt, Enfield Town, Chingford, Barking Riverside, East London, Romford, Upminster, Havering, ”

☆ A Rebrand for London’s ‘Spaghetti of Orange’ Overground Train System
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-15 | by ( Claire Moses | Isabella Kwai | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

London’s public transportation system may soon become a bit easier to navigate. The train lines on London’s Overground, a rail system that largely serves people in neighborhoods outside of central London beyond the reach of the city’s Underground system, will be renamed. The lines on the map will also receive new colors, replacing a system that is currently marked entirely with orange lines on maps. While the Overground is technically a different system than the Underground, popularly known as the tube, the same payment method applies to both, and multiple stations connect the two systems. The new names are: Lioness, named after the English women’s soccer team; Mildmay, honoring a small East London hospital with a pivotal role caring for patients during the AIDS crisis; Windrush, after the ship that brought some of the first migrants from the Caribbean to Britain; Weaver, which travels through an area once known for its textile trade; Suffragette, after the movement that fought for women’s right to vote; and Liberty, which references the historical independence of the people of the Havering borough.

Persons: Mildmay, Weaver Locations: London, East London, Caribbean, Britain, Havering

☆ Nitin Sawhney unites different voices in new album celebrating identity
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Marie-Louise Gumuchian | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/3] Musician, producer and composer Nitin Sawhney poses for a photo in this undated handout picture obtained by Reuters on October 11, 2023. Warner Music/Ray Burmiston/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing RightsLONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Nitin Sawhney celebrates identity in his new album, bringing together different voices from singers Joss Stone and Guy Garvey to Asian women asylum seekers and television host Gary Lineker. "I thought ... here's a safe space that you could actually express whatever you want to and he did," Sawhney said. The result is track "Illegal", which also features the voices of Asian women asylum seekers and concludes with Lineker saying "No one is illegal". Sawhney, whose previous album was called "Immigrants", is known for playing different instruments and working in various genres.

Persons: Nitin Sawhney, Ray Burmiston, Joss Stone, Guy Garvey, Gary Lineker, Paul McCartney, Sting, Sawhney, it's, Lineker, Ayanna Witter, Johnson, Marie, Louise Gumuchian, Christina Fincher Organizations: Reuters, Warner Music, REUTERS Acquire, BBC, Premier League, Thomson Locations: Handout, British, Britain, Caribbean

☆ Britain celebrates 75th anniversary of 'Windrush' arrivals
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/5] Britain's Queen Camilla poses Linda Haye and her family with during a reception to mark the 75th anniversary of the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush to British shores, at Buckingham Palace on June 14, 2023 in London, Britain. During the reception to celebrate the Windrush Generation, ten portraits... Read moreLONDON, June 22 (Reuters) - Prince William said Britain was a better place thanks to the "Windrush generation", as the nation on Thursday celebrated the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the first post-World War Two Caribbean migrants. Many of the events will also acknowledge the prejudices the Windrush arrivals and their descendents have had to overcome. In 2018, Britain apologised for its "appalling" handling of the Windrush generation, after a tightening of immigration policy meant thousands were denied basic rights despite having lived in Britain for decades, and dozens were wrongly deported. His father has commissioned 10 portraits of 10 members of the Windrush generation as part of the celebrations.

Persons: Camilla, Linda Haye, Windrush, Prince William, King Charles ', William, Sarah Young, Michael Holden, Muvija, Sharon Singleton Organizations: Buckingham Palace, National Health Service, Southwark Cathedral, Thomson Locations: Buckingham, London, Britain, Tilbury, Essex, German, Clapham, British, Brixton, Southwark, Windsor

☆ The Windrush generation still struggling to be compensated after Home Office failings
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Caolán Magee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

In 2018, the Windrush Compensation Scheme was set up to provide compensation to victims of the scandal. The Home Office has not yet responded to CNN’s request for comment on these cases and its wider handling of the Windrush Compensation Scheme. The Windrush Compensation Scheme is an extension of a hostile environment for Black and Brown people.”For some people, any compensation awarded is too late. “We were told compensation was on the way so we could get a carer for my dad – but it was too late,” Abiona told CNN. He is now making a Windrush compensation claim through the Home Office to save up for a headstone for his father’s grave.

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☆ Windrush Day: Manchester United great Andy Cole opens up about Jamaican roots and racism
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Darren Lewis | James Oware | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

On one of the first voyages, 492 Caribbean islanders onboard the HMT Empire Windrush arrived in the UK on June 22, 1948. That generation of immigrants became the namesake of that ship, and their arrival date is now celebrated as Windrush Day. However, Cole says racist abuse and a lack of acknowledgement for his achievements meant that in adulthood, he recognized his father was right. Speaking on the inevitability of racist abuse that Black footballers face when missing penalties Andy outlined, “I think we’re just waiting, okay, what’s happening on social media? A clinical striker in his playing career, maybe one day Andy can transfer his wealth of knowledge to the boardroom.

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☆ Opinion | My Mother Knew How to Celebrate a Royal Event
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-04 | by ( David Lammy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When that happens, I know I’m going to miss my mother. I know my mother would have looked for it. My mother felt the monarchy folded her and other immigrants into Britishness. She loved the pomp and ceremony of royal events, and her shelves were filled with cheerful memorabilia from the weddings and jubilees. We’d crowd around the television to watch the latest event and she’d serve her divine Caribbean cooking on royal cake trays.

☆ Artist of Black Portraiture Leads Turner Prize Shortlist
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-27 | by ( Alex Marshall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Barbara Walker, a British artist who draws huge portraits of Black people onto gallery walls, and Jesse Darling, a sculptor whose works evoke fragile bodies, are among the artists nominated for this year’s Turner Prize, the prestigious British visual arts award. The four-strong shortlist was announced on Thursday at a news conference at the Tate Britain art museum in London. Walker, 58, is perhaps the highest-profile artist to be nominated, with works in the collections of Tate, the British Museum and the Yale Center for British Art. She is nominated for “Burden of Proof,” which appeared last year at the Sharjah Biennial in the United Arab Emirates, and included charcoal portraits of people affected by Britain’s “Windrush scandal,” in which some long-term British residents, originally from the Caribbean, were misidentified as illegal immigrants and threatened with deportation. Walker drew these portraits directly onto the gallery walls, as well as onto copies of the paperwork that the British government demanded the residents produce.

☆ Jamaica cool on Charles' coronation as it eyes break with monarchy
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Kate Chappell | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

The process to sever ties with the British monarchy is underway, following in the footsteps of another former Caribbean possession, Barbados. Maziki Thame, a political scientist at the University of the West Indies, agreed the coronation was of little significance. It gained independence in 1962 but retained the British monarch as head of state and stayed in the Commonwealth. Breaking ties with the monarchy is essential for Jamaica, said Steven Golding, president of the UNIIA-ACL, a Black nationalist organization founded in Jamaica by activist Marcus Garvey. "I'd like to hear what Charles has to say about the subjects in the Isle of Jamaica," she said.

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