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The International Slavery Museum opens its doors in Liverpool next week with an exhibition naming history's greatest black achievers. Some are household names, others barely known. All are extraordinary. Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah introduces the list in full ; Extra
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I first visited Liverpool in the summer of 1989, and I've never
forgotten how alien I felt walking through its city centre. The
looks, the energy; hard to quantify nearly 20 years later, but it
seemed the antithesis of the welcome I received in Liverpool's black
district - Toxteth L8. When I enquired as to why I felt so odd, an
"L8onian" told me that "we are not welcome in the city, that's why
we have Toxteth".
It soon become evident that many black Liverpudlians felt the
same way; a ...
