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Steve McQueen and Bernardine Evaristo named among ‘100 great black Britons’

Steve McQueen and Bernardine Evaristo named among ‘100 great black Britons’

List celebrates high-achieving black British individuals over past 400 years

The model and transgender activist Munroe Bergdorf, the artist and film director Steve McQueen and the Booker prize-winning author Bernardine Evaristo are among the new names on a list celebrating key black individuals over the past 400 years.

The mayor of Bristol, Marvin Rees, businesswoman Sharon White and British Vogue’s first black editor, Edward Enninful, are among other new entries on the list of 100 great black Britons, whose stories are told in a book of the same name.

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