Tag: BBC News

  • Census 2011: Leicester ‘most ethnically diverse’ in region BBC News 2012-12-11 Leicester is one of the most diverse cities in the UK and the largest in the East Midlands, the latest census shows. Information from the 2011 survey shows there are 329,000 people living in the city, 24,000 more than in Nottingham, while 250,000 live…

  • Canada’s Métis win 142-year-old land ruling BBC News 2013-03-08 Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled the government failed to hand out land grants properly to the Métis indigenous group 142 years ago. In a 6-2 ruling, the top court said the failure was “not a matter of occasional negligence, but of repeated mistakes and inaction”. The…

  • Inauguration Day: Obama sworn in for second term BBC News 2013-01-20 Barack Obama has officially been sworn in for his second term as US president in a small ceremony at the White House. Although the US Constitution requires the oath of office to be taken by noon on 20 January, that falls on a Sunday…

  • President Barack Obama defeats Romney to win re-election BBC News 2012-11-07 President Barack Obama has been re-elected to a second term, defeating Republican challenger Mitt Romney. America’s first black president secured more than the 270 votes in the electoral college needed to win. In his victory speech before supporters in Chicago, Mr Obama said he…

  • Britain’s first black community in Elizabethan London BBC News Magazine 2012-07-19 Michael Wood The black trumpeter John Blanke played regularly at the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII The reign of Elizabeth I saw the beginning of Britain’s first black community. It’s a fascinating story for modern Britons, writes historian Michael Wood. Walk out…

  • Barbosa made Brazil’s first black Supreme Court leader BBC News 2012-10-10 The judge overseeing a major corruption trial in Brazil has been appointed president of the Supreme Court, the first black person to hold the post. Judge Joaquim Barbosa, who was born into a poor family, has been praised for his judicial independence. He will…

  • Cuban surrealist Wifredo Lam fetches record price BBC News 2012-05-24 A painting by Cuban surrealist artist Wifredo Lam fetched a record personal price at a Latin American art sale at auctioneers Sotheby’s in New York. An unnamed South American collector paid $4.5m (£2.9m) for Lam’s 1944 Idol (Oya/Divinite de l’Air et de la mort), well…

  • Plaque honour for ‘first black star’ Elisabeth Welch BBC News 2012-02-27 The singer Elisabeth Welch is to be commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque in south-west London. She is the second black woman to be honoured with a blue plaque in London. It will be unveiled in Ovington Court, Kensington, which was her home…

  • Black people ‘least satisfied of UK population’ BBC News 2012-02-28 Black and mixed-ethnic Britons are less satisfied with their lives on average than the UK population as a whole, a survey suggests. Some 80,000 people across the UK, polled by the Office for National Statistics, produced an average life satisfaction rating of 7.4 out of…

  • Dominican Republic Country Profile BBC News 2011-12-06 Once ruled by Spain, the Dominican Republic shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, a former French colony. OVERVIEW… …The Dominican Republic is inhabited mostly by people of mixed European and African origins. Western influence is seen in the colonial buildings of the capital, Santo Domingo, as well…