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Witness History: Black history

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The Empire Windrush arrives

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The Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in England on 22 June 1948 with 802 people on board from the Caribbean.The former ... Read more

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Ming Smith makes history at MoMA

Ming Smith makes history at MoMA

In 1979, The Museum of Modern Art, (MoMA) purchased photographs from an African-American woman for the first time in its... Read more

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