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‘From the Foreword, by DAVID OLUSOGA’I am delighted to see the relaunch of 100 Great Black Britons. Frustrated by the widespread and continuing exclusion of the Black British community from the mainstream popular conception of ‘Britishness’, despite Black people having lived in Britain for over a thousand years, Vernon set up a public poll in which anyone could vote for the Black Briton they most admired.