My friend and former colleague Peter Eyo, who has died of kidney cancer aged 69, wanted to be a footballer, but found an unexpected career in the arts and race relations.
In 1969, with a family to support in Toxteth, Liverpool, he was working as a nightclub doorman. One evening, he accepted an early shift on the door of the youth programme at Great Georges Project in a former congregational church, later to become the Black-E. Within a short time he was a core member of the team, running one of Britain’s first community arts projects.
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