The British African-Caribbean community are residents of the United Kingdom who are of West Indian background, and whose ancestors were indigenous to Africa. As immigration to the UK from Africa increased in the 1990s, the term has been used to include UK residents solely of African origin, or as a term to define all Black British residents, though this is usually denoted by "African and Caribbean". The largest proportion of the African-Caribbean population in the UK are of Jamaican origin; others trace origins to smaller nations including Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Montserrat, Dominica, Antigua and Guyana, which though located on the South American mainland, has close cultural ties to the Caribbean, and was historically considered to be part of the British West Indies. African-Caribbean communities exist throughout the United Kingdom, though by far the largest concentrations are in London, Birmingham and the broader West Midlands conurbation.

Read the rest of this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_African-Caribbean_community

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1864: American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's March to the Sea ended with the capture of Savannah, Georgia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%27s_March_to_the_Sea)

1885: Itō Hirobumi, a samurai from Chōshū, became the first Prime Minister of Japan. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C5%8D_Hirobumi)

1989: Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate re-opened after nearly 30 years, symbolizing the unity of East and West Germany. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Gate)

2001: Burhanuddin Rabbani of the Northern Alliance handed over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by Hamid Karzai. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid_Karzai)

2001: CC the cat, the first cloned pet, was born. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CC_(cat))

_____________________ Wikiquote of the day:

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. -- Kenneth Rexroth (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Kenneth_Rexroth)