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Mona Baptiste, a Trinidad-born blues singer
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“London is the place for me”: David Olusoga on the Windrush generation

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Michael Wood on… slavery . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Africa’s contested past . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Timeline Key moments in the American civil rights movement

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The global legacy of Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King waves to supporters on the Mall in Washington DC during the March on Washington, 28 August 1963. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)
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Martin Luther King’s unfinished dream: the historians’ view

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Shackles that were used to tether slaves, on display at the International Slavery Museum. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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Black faces of Tudor England

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Michael X, (right, foreground) black power advocate, in Hyde Park. (Photo by Terence Spencer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)
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Michael X and the British war on black power

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Migrating to Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The big question: Is Africa a prisoner of its past?

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‘Guerrilla’ and the real history of British Black Power

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Roots: a necessary portrayal of transatlantic slavery?

View of Algiers with mediterranean galleys, published in Johannes van Keulen's Dutch Atlas, 1709. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)
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When Britons were slaves in Africa