Cambridge Students' Union,known as Cambridge SU,is the university-wide representative body for students at the University of Cambridge,England. Its predecessor union was known as Cambridge University Students' Union or CUSU until its dissolution in July 2020.
Sir Mark Trevor Phillips is a British writer,broadcaster and former politician who served as Chair of the London Assembly from 2000 to 2001 and from 2002 to 2003. He presented Trevor Phillips on Sunday,a Sunday morning talk show on Sky News,from 2021 to 2022,and currently presents Sunday Morning on Sky News since 2023.
Black British people are a multi-ethnic group of British people of either African or Afro-Caribbean descent. The term Black British developed in the 1950s,referring to the Black British West Indian people from the former Caribbean British colonies in the West Indies sometimes referred to as the Windrush Generation and Black British people descending from Africa.
Lee Jasper is a British politician and activist. He served as Senior Policy Advisor on Equalities to the then Mayor of London Ken Livingstone until he resigned on 4 March 2008. More recently,he stood as the Respect Party candidate for the Croydon North by-election in November 2012,and is a race relations activist.
Meral Hussein Ece,Baroness Hussein-Ece,is a British Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords. She is the first woman of Turkish Cypriot origin to be a member of either house of Parliament after she was appointed a Liberal Democrat working peer on 28 May 2010. She was the Liberal Democrat Spokeswoman for Equalities from 2015 until 2016,under leader Tim Farron.
These are lists of people who belong to non-European ethnic minorities and have been elected as Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom,European Union,and other British devolved assemblies and also Members of the non-elected House of Lords.
Operation Black Vote (OBV) is a British non-partisan and nonprofit national organisation established in 1996,which addresses the Black British and ethnic minority democratic deficit. OBV uses voter registration campaigns in minority ethnic communities,and encourages community engagement in minority ethnic communities to address supposed racial inequalities in areas including education,health,and employment.
Nathaniel Peat is a social entrepreneur and international motivational speaker. At age 25,he founded the nonprofit organization The Safety Box,which uses grassroots methods to interrupt violent behaviour,build entrepreneurship and foster achievement in young people using alternative curriculum in British schools. He is a regular television and radio commentator on youth and education.
Nwabueze Jaja Wachuku Nwokolo,a royal princess of Ngwaland,is a Nigerian United Kingdom based lawyer who is council member at Law Society of England and Wales;including being a director and board chair of Great Britain's BSN:Black Solicitors Network,the largest membership organisation of its kind in Europe. Nwokolo is a member of Law Society of England and Wales' Minority Ethnic Concerns Group. Also,she sits on the RAB:Regulatory Affairs Board of the Law Society.
Nadia Rose is a British rapper and songwriter from Croydon,London.
Patrick Philip Vernon is a British social commentator and political activist of Jamaican heritage,who works in the voluntary and public sector. He is a former Labour councillor in the London Borough of Hackney. His career has been involved with developing and managing health and social care services,including mental health,public health,regeneration and employment projects. Also a film maker and amateur cultural historian,he runs his own social enterprise promoting the history of diverse communities,as founder of Every Generation and the "100 Great Black Britons" campaign. He is also an expert on African and Caribbean genealogy in the UK. He was appointed a Clore Fellow in 2007,an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for "services to the Reduction of Health Inequalities for Ethnic Minorities",and in 2018 was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Wolverhampton.
Laura Maria Serrant,is a British nurse and academic. She is currently Regional Head of Nursing for North East and Yorkshire at Health Education England and Professor of at Manchester Metropolitan University where she was previously Head of Department.
Vanessa Kingori is chief business officer at CondéNast Britain and Vogue European business advisor. She is also British Vogue's Publishing Director. Prior to that,Kingori was the publisher of British GQ across all platforms. She has worked for media publishing house CondéNast UK for over a decade.
Harris Bokhari is the founder and a trustee at the Patchwork Foundation,for which he won the Diversity Champion of the Year Award in early 2018. The Patchwork Foundation promotes the positive integration of disadvantaged and minority communities into British democracy and civil society."
Sandra Kerr is a race,gender,and disability business and policy advisor in the United Kingdom. Kerr is currently the Business in the Community's Race Equality Director and has worked in the Cabinet Office.
The Powerlist is a list of the 100 most influential people of African or African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom. The list is updated annually and has been published in book format by Powerful Media since 2007. The Powerlist is not limited to British-born citizens and includes immigrants to the UK.
The 2019 Powerlist rankings were released in October 2018 and saw Meghan,Duchess of Sussex. included in the list for the first time,and named Ric Lewis as the most influential individual
The 13th annual Powerlist was judged by a panel chaired by Dame Linda Dobbs and published in October 2019;sponsored by J.P. Morgan &Co.,pwc,linklaters and The Executive Leadership Council.
The 14th annual Powerlist,which names the 100 most influential people of African or African Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom,was judged by an independent panel and published in November 2020,sponsored by JP Morgan &Co,PricewaterhouseCoopers,Linklaters,Refinitiv,Herman Miller,Facebook and The Executive Leadership Council. The 2021 Powerlist came in a year in which public debate on racial injustice had increased,with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and global protests against police brutality. Therefore,chief executive Michael Eboda decided that the 14th Powerlist would honour those who have used their voice to advocate against racial injustice. Furthermore,the rankings highlighted the work of healthcare professionals during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,which also resulted in the awards being held virtually on 17 November 2020,hosted by Kwame Kwei-Armah.
Jason Arday FRSA is a British sociologist,writer and fundraiser best known for his research on race and racism. In March 2023,he began an appointment as Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge,UK,becoming the youngest black person ever appointed to a professorship at Cambridge. He had previously been a Professor of Sociology of Education at the University of Glasgow in the College of Social Sciences,and before that Associate Professor of Sociology and Deputy Executive Dean of People and Culture in the Faculty of Social Science and Health at the University of Durham,as well as visiting professor at Nelson Mandela University in the Centre for Critical Studies in Higher Education Transformation,South Africa.
