Black In Britain - L reference file

L - reference file

Stephen Lawrence(d) - Teenager murdered in a racist attack in Eltham, south London, 1993. Despite a long investigation and multiple trials the five white men believed to have been responsible for his murder have yet to be bought to book.
Lawrence's parents - Neville and Doreen Lawrence have become active campaigners and speakers since his death.
Stephen Lawrence's name will forever be linked to police attitudes to Black people and Black victims of crime. A public enquiry and subsequent reports found that institutional racism within the force contributed to the failure to secure a criminal conviction for this brutal murder

Noemie Lenoir - Yes YOU KNOW THE FACE - it is everywhere, staring up at you from magazines and across at you at bus stops and billboards (Autum 05-Summer 06). A popular Black face in Britain but French by birth and married to a footballer, Chelsea and France ace Claude Makalele. She's been the face of Marks & Spencer helping to boost knickers and pants sales by 20 per cent climed the Sun newspaper in 2006

Leroy Logan - Chief Inspector and high profile Metropolitan Police officer. Involved in the Black Police Association (BPA) and was involved in a long running case against his employers in which they were accused of victimisation

Germaine (Jermaine) Lindsay (d) - The Jamaican born suicide 7 July suicide

bomber. His Piccadilly Line bomb killed 26 people and injured 340 others. He is reported to have been indoctrinated by hate preacher Abdallah Al Faisal, also of Jamaican decent. He converted to Islam in 2000 and become influenced by militant teachers. He married a white convert to Islam, Rachel Lewthwaite and lived in Aylesbury with their young child. At the time of his suicide bomb attack she is believed to have been pregnant with the second child

Rustie Lee - As far as TV cook’s go her raucous laugh was enough to do your head in the early days of Breakfast television (1980s), but now decades later Rustie Lee is heading to primetime screens on BBC soap EastEnders. Lee, an accomplished cook and author of more than half a dozen cookbooks, has been off national TV for a while, but will make a return this year in the popular soap, appearing as Gus (Mohammed George) the street cleaner’s aunty Opal. Born 1953 in Jamaica, she appeared on TV-am (ITV) laughing her way through recipes and such like. A celebrity in West Midlands, she even ran a restaurant in Birmingham and was a regular on local BBC Radio WM. A brief flirtation with politics in 2005 saw her standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Robert Kilroy Silk and the UK Independence Party as a for the Wyre Forest. She said: "I'm absolutely over the moon to think I'm going to be in the Square. It's tremendous, I've always wanted to do it. I have done lots of musicals and tours but I hope that this will allow people to see another side of things I can do." Yes Rustie, we can’t wait. Rustie’s recipes Rustie's politics

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