I Am Norwell Roberts
To appreciate the present and how far we have come we sometimes need to revisit the uncomfortable past, no matter how painful.
Norwell Roberts, who became the Met''s first Black police officer in 1967, found out he had a new job the same way the readers of the Daily Telegraph did. The headline read ''MET TO HAVE FIRST COLOURED POLICEMAN''.
From that day forward his face became a symbol - of accep...
To appreciate the present and how far we have come we sometimes need to revisit the uncomfortable past, no matter how painful.
Norwell Roberts, who became the Met''s first Black police officer in 1967, found out he had a new job the same way the readers of the Daily Telegraph did. The headline read ''MET TO HAVE FIRST COLOURED POLICEMAN''.
From that day forward his face became a symbol - of accep...
