50th anniversary of Lord Constantine, the first black life peer, taking his seat in the House of Lords – UK Parliament https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/media-centre/house-of-lords-media-notices/2019/march-2019/50th-anniversary-of-lord-constantine-the-first-black-life-peer--taking-his-seat-in-the-house-of-lords-/
Lord Fowler, the Lord Speaker, and Baroness Benjamin today welcomed to the House of Lords a bust of Lord Learie Constantine, the first black Life Peer who took his seat in the House of Lords 50 years ago today on 26 March 1969
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