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Sir Trevor McDonald – First Black UK TV Anchorman
Trevor McDonald OBE (born 16 August 1939) is a Trinidadian-born British newsreader and journalist. He is a news presenter with Independent Television News (ITN), notable for having been the first black news reader in the UK. He has won more awards than any other British reporter. McDonald was knighted in 1999 for his services to journalism.
After working as a print and broadcast journalist in Trinidad during the 1960s, in 1969 McDonald was employed by BBC Radio as a producer, based in London but still broadcasting to the Caribbean.

In 1973, he began his long association with ITN, first as a general reporter, later as a sports correspondent, but ultimately concentrating on international politics. In the 1980s he spent some time with Channel 4 News, but returned to ITN in 1989, presenting the early-evening news. Twice voted “Newscaster of the year”, McDonald is perceived as the face of ITN after years of fronting its flagship 'News at Ten' bulletin.
An accomplished journalist, he has penned several books including autobiographies on cricketers - Clive Lloyd and Viv Richards. His own biography, 'Fortunate Circumstances', was published in 1993.
Once viewed as the best-spoken person in the country and was reported to have fronted a two-year inquiry into the state of language learning. It warned that government education policy failed to teach pupils the necessary language skills needed for later life.
In 1993, he received an OBE in the Queen's Honours List, and received a knighthood in 1999 for his services to journalism.
Source: Great Black Britons

Vivian Alexander Anderson – First Black Footballer for England
Viv Anderson MBE (born 29 August 1956 in Clifton, Nottingham) is an English football player and coach, who played for clubs including Nottingham Forest, Arsenal, Manchester United and Sheffield Wednesday, in the 1970s and 1980s. He is also notable for being the first black football player to represent England in a full international match.
During a long and glittering career with some of England's leading clubs, he won everything the domestic game had to offer. Viv won the European Cup 1979, 1980; European Supercup 1979 and played for Nottingham Forest, Arsenal, Manchester United, Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley, and Middlesbrough during his distinguished career.
Anderson regards his selection for England in the friendly international against Czechoslovakia at Wembley in November 1978 as, above all, a cause for professional satisfaction.
‘At the time all I thought about was doing my job and trying to impress the manager enough to get selected again,' Anderson recalls. ‘It is only looking back that I realise the importance of it all, and the responsibility I was carrying.'
It's not every player, after all, who receives a ‘Good Luck' telegram from the Queen. At the age of only 22, Anderson won universal praise for his dignified assurance as a role model.
Anderson was voted the best right-back of the 1970s in a poll of managers, and was awarded an MBE in January 2000. He was later inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2004, in recognition of his impact on the English league. He remains a keen supporter of the National Football Museum and regularly attends special events at the museum.
As of 2005, Anderson runs a sports travel agency and also works as a goodwill ambassador for the Football Association. Anderson appears as an occasional guest pundit on MUTV - Manchester United's official TV station.
Source: Great Black Britons

John Richard Archer – First Black Mayor in UK
John Archer was the first person of African descent to hold civic office in London. He was also the first British black person to represent his country at an international conference abroad, and the first black person to become an election agent for a constituency Labour Party.
John Archer, born on 8th June 1863, in Liverpool to Richard, a ship's steward from Barbados, and Mary Theresa, who was Irish. Almost nothing is known of his early life. He was in his late 20s when he and his wife, a black Canadian, set up home at 55 Brynmaer Road, at the south end of Battersea Park.
Archer earned his living as a photographer, with a studio in Battersea Park Road; he appears to have been successful as a photographer, for his work won many prizes. He later turned his interest to local politics, and was elected to Battersea Borough Council in 1906, as one of the six councillors for the Latchmere ward, where he topped the poll with 1,051 votes.
He lost his seat in 1909, but won it again three years later. On 10th November 1913, he was elected mayor of Battersea. The population at the time was 167,000 and the council's annual income from rates was over £400,000. The newly elected mayor told the council,
"You have made history tonight…Battersea has done many things in the past, but the greatest thing it has done is to show that it has no racial prejudice, and that recognises a man for the work he has done"
He successfully defended his seat in 1919, and then became a successful political agent and alderman. He returned to the council in 1931, and died suddenly the following year. His record of service to the local community was extraordinary.
Source: Great Black Britons

Shocked shocked shocked that grown ass women can be acting like kids.
Now this thread is gonna get treated the way it should

why why why

It's now under the General section as it doesn't belong to the meet-up section either

PS: You are now a NL celeb everyone wants Queen eve

What's all dis  
How is this romantic for crying out loud

^^^^
You got super lucky mate If not for the useless torres, it would have just been another plain sailing week.

Da Drog mugged 'em once again

why r u looking for him?

Just a Q

big bully don come again oh.

young gunners don dey shyte for 'em pants

Another fx deal gone bad

I'm also tripping for Inked
million dollar question is who is she going to choose

No mind am jare. Didn't westbrook and durant make 'em sweat like xmas goat.
coming here over-hyping Gasoft and Bynum

No flashing.
Just represent is all we ask

What happened against fulham?
What was our back four like?

I'm sure it's def going to be ON in london city 2day but i got a bad knee so sadly doing a couch potato today
Are u not going to join in the fun with ur hubby?
U could also go along and represent with a green top, white pants and lastly green snickers.

U can't be skooled under the master without the master knowing your game inside out.
ya dig?

Oh i c. Sorry i must have gotten the wrong end of the stick.
Chei, it's only friday at the end of the day

U go soon dey laugh in old trafford. Good riddance
U don forget say bruce na our boi. Nothing dey happen

I heard the Drogb is in a big happy mood. Come kick off we gonna see him dancing/strutting his waist as he knows the young gunners are in for another thumping defeat

Damn if only she was real

I have already answered ur question in relation to D Bent
As for Gyan, vidic will pocket him all day simply because they match up well in the heading department.

^^^
wetin do am?
did he break his leg? Can he create his own chances?

Stop all these ur nyansh and no offeinse posts Mr Cork.
It's seriously becoming stale.
Hello to u as well.
I have my eyes on u though