Race Today archive chronicling lives of black Britons to launch online

Black People’s Day of Action, 2 March 1981. Grieving protesters march to the House of Commons in London after 13 black people were killed in the New Cross house fire on 18 January 1981. Photograph: Graham Turner/The Guardian

The archive of a magazine chronicling the lives of Britain’s black community during the 1970s and 1980s will be available online for the first time.

Race Today magazine, first launched in 1973, combined radical journalism with campaigning zeal to shine a light on the issues affecting Britain’s black communities, as well as providing insight and commentary on politics in Britain and abroad.