A statue of black British playwright Alfred Fagon is among the memorials that have been given Grade II-listed status during Black History Month. A gravestone of an African American who liberated himself from enslavement has also been added, while amendments to three existing listings have been made to highlight their historical significance within black British history.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport made the additions and amendments to the National Heritage List on the advice of Historic England. Fagon was recognised as one of the most notable black British playwrights of the 1970s and 1980s as well as being a poet and actor.
At the time of his death in 1986, it is thought that he was still the only black British playwright to have had work broadcast on national television. The lifelike portrait bust by Zimbabwean artist David Matusa was erected in tribute to Fagon in 1987 in the St Pauls area of Bristol .
