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Google Doodle celebrates Adelaide Hall's 122nd birthday
Adelaide Hall was the jazz singer who introduced scat singing and was a household name in 1930s Britain.
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Oct 19, 20232 min read
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Google Doodle celebrates Mama Cax during Black History Month USA
Google Doodle celebrates the pioneering American model and disability rights activist who championed for the fashion industry's inclusion of
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Feb 18, 20232 min read
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Google Doodle celebrates Andrew Watson - the world's first Black person to play association football
Andrew Watson was a Scottish footballer who is widely considered to be the world's first black person to play association football at intern
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Oct 18, 20222 min read
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Google Doodle pays tributes to Amanda Aldridge, British opera singer and composer
Google Doodle pays tributes to Amanda Aldridge, British opera singer and composer
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Oct 16, 20221 min read
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Google Doodle celebrates Louise 'Miss Lou' Bennett-Coverley's 103rd birthday
Louise "Miss Lou" was a famed poet, folklorist, and the first Black student to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1945. On...
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Sep 9, 20222 min read
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Google Doodle celebrates St Lucian Economist Sir W. Arthur Lewis
Sir W. Arthur Lewis is one of the pioneers of Development Economics and was of the first proponents of reparations to the Caribbean and...
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Apr 20, 20222 min read
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Google Doodle celebrates the 68th birthday of Olive Morris
Olive Morris is widely recognised as a prominent voice of leadership in the fight against discrimination in Britain during the 1970s.
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Oct 9, 20212 min read
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Google Doodle celebrates Pre-Raphaelite artists’ model Fanny Eaton
Jamacian born Fanny Eaton was one of the most influential muses in the Pre-Raphaelite movement and helped challenge the idealised...
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Nov 29, 20201 min read
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Google Doodle celebrates Claudia Jones during Black History Month UK
Today’s Doodle commemorates Trinidad-born activist, feminist, journalist, orator, and community organizer Claudia Jones.
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Oct 14, 20202 min read
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Google Doodle celebrates Mary Seacole
Mary Seacole is now known for her medical work in the Crimean war, and as a brilliant woman who combated the racial prejudice she experience
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Aug 31, 20201 min read
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