My Black skin got me sacked from British TV. That’s why I spend my life fighting racism | Barbara Blake-Hannah

It was a struggle for Black Britons to make headway 50 years ago, and it still is now - but it is important to fight on

Fifty years ago, when racists called and wrote daily letters to ITV's Today programme in 1968 telling the corporation Get that nigger off our screens", they were speaking about me, the first visibly Black TV journalist in Britain.

It resulted in me losing my job, having been in post just nine months. The official excuse at the time was, She didn't fit in with the programme." But this was not what I was told when the producer showed me the complaint letters, and then the door.