Ysgol Harri Tudur Celebrates Black History Month

Ysgol Harri Tudur Celebrates Black History Month

Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock MBE (born 9 March 1968) is a British space scientist and science educator. She is an honorary research associate of University College London's Department of Physics and Astronomy. Since February 2014, she has co-presented the long-running astronomy television programme The Sky at Night with Chris Lintott. In 2020 she was awarded the Institute of Physics William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize for her public engagement in physics. She is the first black woman to win a gold medal in the Physics News Award. She has also earned the title of the president-elect of the British Science Association.

Ysgol Harri Tudur Celebrates Black History Month

Professor David Olusoga OBE (born 1970) is British historian, writer, broadcaster and film-maker. He was born in Nigeria and migrated to England when he was 5 years old. His contribution to many aspects of history have been impressive, but in recent years he has brought out a number of shows and books highlighting black British history. Olusoga was included in the 2019 and 2020 editions of the Powerlist (a ranking of the 100 most influential Black Britons). His contributions to history have allowed for many untold and hidden stories to be understood and celebrated.

Ysgol Harri Tudur Celebrates Black History Month

Roy Clay Sr. (born 1929) is an American computer scientist and inventor. He was a founding member of the computer division at Hewlett-Packard, where he led the team that created the HP 2116A. He is the Chief Executive Officer of ROD-L electronics and has been involved with the development of electrical safety equipment.

Clay joined Hewlett-Packard (HP), where he helped to launch and lead the Computer Science division in 1965. He was director of the team who developed the HP 2116A, one of Hewlett-Packard's first mini-computers. Clay stayed at HP until the mid seventies, eventually rising to being the highest-ranking African-American member of staff. Whilst working at HP Clay developed several initiatives to improve the representation of African-Americans in Silicon Valley. He recognised the need to test electrical products for safety, and left HP in 1971 to start his own business.

Clay is the founding director of ROD-L Electronics, which is based in Menlo Park, California. The company is recognised not only for its technical innovation but its community work. In 2002 Clay was elected by the African American Museum and Library at Oakland as one of the most important African-Americans working in technology. Clay was then inducted into the Silicon Valley Hall of Fame in 2003.

Ysgol Harri Tudur Celebrates Black History Month

Nina Simone (1933 - 2003) Born Eunice Kathleen Waymon, Nina was an American singer, songwriter, pianist and civil rights activist. Her music spanned several styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and pop.

The sixth of eight children born to a poor family in Tryon, North Carolina, Simone initially aspired to be a concert pianist. With the help of a few supporters in her hometown, she enroled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. She then applied for a scholarship to study at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was denied admission despite a well received audition, which she attributed to racism. In 2003, just days before her death, the Institute awarded her an honorary degree.

Ysgol Harri Tudur Celebrates Black History Month

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey DBE (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer. Best known for her career longevity, powerful voice and recording the theme songs to three James Bond films, Bassey is widely regarded as one of the most popular vocalists in Britain.

Born in Cardiff, Bassey began performing as a teenager in 1953. In 1959, she became the first Welsh person to gain a number-one single on the UK Singles Chart. In the following decades, Bassey amassed 27 Top 40 hits in the UK, including two number-ones. She became well-known for recording the soundtrack theme songs of the James Bond films Goldfinger (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), and Moonraker (1979). In 2020, Bassey became the first female artist to chart an album in the Top 40 of the UK Albums Chart in seven consecutive decades with her album "I Owe It All To You".

Ysgol Harri Tudur Celebrates Black History Month

Stephen Lawrence (13 September 1974 – 22 April 1993) was a black British teenager from southeast London, who was murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall Road, Eltham on the evening of 22 April 1993, when he was 18 years old. The case became a cause célèbre: its fallout included changes of attitudes on racism and the police, and to the law and police practice. It also led to the partial revocation of the rule against double jeopardy. Two of the perpetrators were convicted of murder on 3 January 2012.

Ysgol Harri Tudur Celebrates Black History Month

Kimberly Bryant — Founder of Black Girls Code (b. 1967)

In 2011, Kimberly Bryant founded Black Girls Code, a non profit organisation that focuses on providing technology and computer programming education to African-American girls. After founding Black Girls Code, Bryant was listed as one of the “25 Most Influential African-Americans in Technology” by Business Insider magazine. She was honoured in 2013 at the White House as a “Champion of Change for Tech Inclusion”.