Black History Month on BBC 1Xtra

Throughout the month of October BBC 1Xtra will be celebrating the achievements, events, and black music icons that have contributed to this history over the last 5 decades. Each week we will be looking at a different decade focussing on the music, the politics and the drama that define that period in time.

Hear Part five of 1Xtra's Black History Month

BBC 1Xtra - Black History

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What happened in the 2000s:

• Aaliyah dies in a plane crash in the Bahamas aged 22. Eight months later TLC band member Lisa Left Eye is killed in a car accident.
  
  
• Dizzee Rascal wins the prestigious Mercury Music Prize for his album Boy In Da Corner, at 19 the youngest person to ever win it.
  
  
• At the Athens Olympics Kelly Holmes becomes the first British female to win two gold medals, is awarded the BBC sports personality of the year and is made a dame in 2005.
  
  
• US TV host Oprah Winfrey becomes the world's first black woman billionaire.
  
  
• Halle Berry became the first African American woman to win the Best Actress Oscar for her leading role in the film Monster's Ball.

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