In 1948, Darrell Pierre’s plans to be one of the passengers leaving the Caribbean for a new life in the UK on board the HMT Empress Windrush were scuppered by a family illness. It would be another 12 years before his dreams were fulfilled and his journey from the heat of Trinidad to...
The trial of Brazil’s ex-president Jair Bolsonaro before the Supreme Electoral Court has started in Brasilia. Mr Bolsonaro is accused of abusing his power and spreading false information about Brazil’s electoral system ahead of last year’s presidential poll. While it is...
R&B, drill, grime – three genres that might come to mind when you think of black music. For musician Hak Baker, it’s a limiting belief. He’s been releasing songs since 2017, but has only just felt he can put music out about things like Windrush. It’s 75 years...
A 96-year-old World War Two veteran from Leeds has been immortalised in paint to mark the 75th anniversary of the Windrush crossing. Alford Gardner was depicted by artist Chloe Cox after King Charles commissioned a series of 10 paintings. The King told Jamaican-born Mr Gardner, who...
At least 46 women have been killed in a riot at a women’s prison in Honduras on Tuesday. It is understood that a fight broke out between rival gangs, after which one gang set a cell alight. Officials say most of those who died were killed in the fire but others were shot, stabbed or...
