After completing a Diploma in Youth and Community Work in Birmingham, he was appointed as a youth worker by Bristol City Council. In 1963, he led the city's bus boycott, rallying thousands to ...

HUNDREDS GATHERED at Bristol Cathedral on Friday to honour the life and legacy of Dr Paul Stephenson, the civil rights pioneer who led the Bristol Bus Boycott and helped pave the way for Britain’s ...

Ahead of a service marking his extraordinary life's work at Bristol Cathedral on Friday, his daughter Fumi Stephenson has ...

Hundreds of people have gathered at Bristol Cathedral to remember one of the UK's leading civil rights campaigners. The achievements of Dr Paul Stephenson OBE, who died in November aged 87, were ...

In 1963, Dr Stephenson led the bus boycott alongside Guy Bailey OBE and Roy Hacket MBE after the Bristol Omnibus Company refused to hire Guy Reid-Bailey from Jamaica. A 60-day boycott ensued and ...

Two Weston teachers from Winterstoke Hundred Academy had the privilege of attending a special service at Bristol Cathedral.

This 10-year anniversary concert of the orchestra’s founding shows there’s plenty to look forward to in the next decade ...

Chineke! was founded in 2015 as Europe’s “first professional orchestra of black and ethnic minority musicians”. It now describes its members as “majority Black and ethnically diverse ...

George Ferguson writes about Paul Stephenson ahead of the civil rights hero's memorial service at Bristol Cathedral ...

but it’s an odd sort of party that includes a four-movement Song of the Prophets: Requiem for the Climate and tragic pieces commemorating the Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 and Martin Luther King’s “I ...