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This section presents a reference source on artists, scholars, associations, events and archives that had influenced black British cultural production from 1970 to 2001. Eastern Eye is a weekly newspaper founded by Anwar Saheed in 1989. The tabloid states it is the newspaper for the Asian perspective. It compiles and publishes Great Britain's Richest Asians 200 list, which appears annually. Built in 1910, the Electric Cinema at Portobello Road in London, England was Britain's first black cinema. Opening in 1911, around 600 people saw Herbert Tree perform a silent version of the film, Henry VIII. However, as the popularity of the area declined so did the cinema. In 1992, it went into voluntary receivership and sought a buyer. A year later, a consortium including Choice FM and Voice moved into the building. Buchi Emecheta migrated to London, England in 1962, when women writers in Africa were virtually unheard of. As well as working as a teacher, librarian and community worker, she has published more than a dozen novels and a number of works for children. She has not succeeded in internationalizing African women's writing but has become a reference point in black British writing and culture. Empire Road is credited with being the first black soap opera and ran for two series between 1978 and 1979. The show had a mixed black and Asian cast, and included storylines that were concerned with mainstream issues such as parental discipline and difficult relationships.