Archive | April, 2009
Posted on 30 April 2009. Tags: BNP, Britain, British, British National Party, Community, Nationalism, Parties, Politics, Racist, Racists, fashion, race, society

Edmund Standing, April 19th 2009, 4:07 pm
What the BNPs modernisation reveals about modern Britain
The BNPs rebranding strategy reveals something very interesting about Britain, and white British people in particular. For years, by promoting racial nationalism, the BNP remained an utterly marginal organisation, largely attracting hardcore racists, skinheads, and social misfits. The fact that the ...
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Posted on 30 April 2009. Tags: Africa, Africa, Business, Economics, Economy, Politics, globalisation

Even though it is the least integrated with the global economy, Africa may be the worst hit region by the global economic crisis. Each of the four channels through which the crisis is affecting Africa has a particularly nefarious impact.
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Posted on 29 April 2009. Tags: Admiral Howard, Africa, Black, Blacks, Females in the Navy, Media, Navy, News, Somalia, president, stories

MAERSK-ALABAMA CAPTAIN RESCUED BY REAR ADM. MICHELLE HOWARD'S SHIP
Whoa!
Nope, this is one you SURE DIDN'T HEAR on the news. The ship that rescued the Maersk-Alabama's captain was skippered by a BLACK FEMALE REAR ADMIRAL? Get OUT of here!
If you're like me, you briefly saw her in some news clips, and (like me) probably figured she ...
Posted in Africa, African American, Education, Events, Men, Middle East, News, Politics, The Americas, War, Women
Posted on 29 April 2009. Tags: Africans, Caribbean, Crime, Health, Law and Order, Police, Racism, SUS law, custody deaths, sickle cell

Registration closes 18 May 2009 - Book now to avoid disappointment!
The Unit for the Social Study of Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell (TASC Unit) at De Montfort University, Leicester is pleased to present this exclusive one-day conference.
The conference examines Sickle Cell Disorders, healthcare neglect in prisons, racism in the criminal justice system and the introduction of ...
Posted in Africa, Black Britain, Blackpresence Supports, Community, Education, Europe, Events, Health, Law and Order, Politics
Posted on 29 April 2009. Tags: Adoption, Black, Blacks, British, Colonies, Death, England, Environment, Events, Literature, Markets, Nationalism, Racism, Tradition, Women, actors, comedy, nigeria, writers

Is death the start of the human journey or its end? Is mortality a transition from one sphere of our existence to another - the recurring cycle of life, death and rebirth? From Nobel Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka’s versatile prose emerges a mournful piece of theatre, which isn’t in fear of difficult themes of life ...
Posted in Arts, Black Britain, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Community, Entertainment, Events
Posted on 24 April 2009. Tags: BNP, Conference, Doreen Lawrence, London, Murder, Racism, Stephen Lawrence, The Met
Posted in Black Britain, Community, Education, Europe, Men, News, Politics, Racism, Women
Posted on 23 April 2009. Tags: Black, Blacks, Inter racial, News, Racing, magazines, race, stories

My Monday column is about the challenges facing news organizations trying to maintain conversations with readers while keeping the discourse civil and thoughtful.
Consider what happened recently when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s weekly magazine, Go!, ran an article about the best places to smooch and featured a picture of an interracial couple kissing on the magazine ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Education, Environment, Europe, Men, Politics
Posted on 23 April 2009. Tags: Africa, Africa, Africans, Congress, Elections, Nationalism, News, Parties, president

Jacob Zuma is one step away from the Union Buildings - South Africa's seat of power.
Wednesday's national and provincial elections are certain to see the African National Congress (ANC) leader become the new president of South Africa.
But this year's elections have been different.
A new opposition party, hewn from the ruling African National Congress, is challenging ...
Posted in Africa, Education, Events, Men, News, Politics, Women
Posted on 23 April 2009. Tags: Black caucus, Castro, Congress, Cuba, Politics, Racism

Most Americans seem to ignore the fact that, before Castro came to power in 1959, Cuba was one of the most racially integrated nations in the world, with a socio-cultural system relatively free of racial discrimination. As Professor Richard R. Fagen has pointed out, "Batista's Cuba exhibited a greater degree of national integration than did ...
Posted in African American, Caribbean, Politics, Racism, The Americas
Posted on 16 April 2009. Tags: Events, London, musical, urban

R&D Productions would like to invite you to the Charity Gala performance of 'Scratched Out - The Urban Musical' in aid of the ACLT
Saturday 18 April, 7.30pm, Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, Hammersmith W6 9RL
Tickets: £25 (plus food, drinks & music after the show) Box office: 020 8237 1111
Book Tickets Here
'Scratched Out - The Urban Musical' ...
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Posted on 15 April 2009. Tags: Carnival, Panorama, Steelbands, Steelpan, Trinidad

Trinidad Carnival 2009 Featuring Desperadoes the Finest steel Orchestra in the World
Review by Mighty Jamma
The first time I saw Despers, I was with my brother Norman in 1981. They were performing at the Birmingham Odeon, (as part of their UK tour). The whole audience was transfixed, we were amazed with the standard and sound of ...
Posted in Black Britain, Caribbean, Education, Entertainment, Music, News
Posted on 15 April 2009. Tags: Add new tag

BLACK AND
WORLD HISTORY COURSES
Starting Sunday 3 May 09 (11.00am) and Thursday 7 May 09 (7.00-9.00pm) - Walthamstow, London E17
Our courses are an excellent introduction and progression into self-development providing a realistic insight into our history, present day situation and future. Our courses are popular and have been running for over 12 yrs.
Our unique series of 17/18 week ...
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Posted on 14 April 2009. Tags: Africa, Africa, Africans, Army, Congo, Crime, Death, Economics, Europe, Genocide, Holocaust, Politicians, Politics, Sudan, Troops, War, Women, ethnicity, president, violence

A Tale of a Forgotten People
By Vava Tampa
Outside public eyes in a remote corner of Africa and literally under the world's radar screen, a country is sinking in a river of blood! Mothers crying! Fathers and sons trading hot metals! Neighbours, in alliance with local armed groups, seething through the thick dense forest to ...
Posted in Africa, Community, Education, Environment, Events, Health, Media, Men, Military, Racism, Religion, War, Women
Posted on 14 April 2009. Tags: French, Posters, Racist, Russian, Senagalese, Soviet, War, polish, propaganda, wartime

Frances policy of using African Troops across europe was unpopular.
Italian Propaganda Poster Boccasile, Gino
Sottoscrivete (3 Prisoners), 1942
African American soldiers are depicted in a negative way by the Italian Fascists.
Posted in Africa, Arts, Education, War
Posted on 10 April 2009. Tags: African soldiers, Africans, Blacks, Colonies, France, Germany, Hitler, Italian, Posters, Rhineland, Russia, Soldiers, War, West Indies, black soldiers, mein kampf

You would be surprised the amount of people who are totally ignorant about the role of black troops in both World Wars, and even in subsequent wars. Furthermore, the use of Black troops in European armies was extremely controversial in the first part of the 20th Century.
Africans have been depicted both positively and negatively ...
Posted in Africa, African American, Caribbean, Education, Europe, Media, Politics, Racism, War
Posted on 09 April 2009. Tags: Adoption, Black Kids in care, Madonna, Malawi, race

Well It's been in the news all week, So what do we think? At the end of March the BBC reported:
Pop star Madonna is to travel to Malawi in a bid to adopt a baby girl called Mercy James, officials have said.
The Reuters news agency was told that the child has "no father and ...
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Posted on 09 April 2009. Tags: Africa, Religion, water spirits

WASHINGTON, DC.- Beautiful and seductive, protective yet dangerous, the water deity Mami Wata (pidgin English for “Mother Water”) is the focus of a traveling exhibition that opened Wednesday, April 1, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas” explores 500 years of the visual ...
Posted in Africa, Arts, Slavery
Posted on 08 April 2009. Tags: Anderson, Andy Cole, Barnes, Black Footballers, Britain, Drogba, Soccer, football

We all have our favourites for one reason or another, maybe your favourite player was the first black player to play for your local team, or perhaps he was a prolific goalscorer with amazing skills. Who was your Favourite footballer and why?
Posted in Africa, Black Britain, Caribbean, Europe, Sports
Posted on 06 April 2009. Tags: Black, Blacks, History, Notices, ethnicity, magazines, notice, race, revellers

Keeping my eyes open after a short time doing other things last week, hey, a boy has a life you know! I noticed this fantastic set of magazine scans from the 1950s.
Whilst the magazines reflect the times, I simply revelled in the photography and typographic layout, something many modern magazines seem to have forgotten about ...
Posted in African American, Arts, Beauty & Fashion, Blackpresence Supports, Education, Media, Men, News, The Americas, Women
Posted on 06 April 2009. Tags: Bellaire, Hariss, Police, Texas

A Harris County grand jury on Monday heard from 23-year-old Robert Tolan, who was shot in the chest in front of his home by a Bellaire police officer, leading to accusations of racial profiling.
A former minor league ballplayer, Tolan was stopped in front of his home on New Year’s Eve because police believed the vehicle ...
Posted in African American, Community, Law and Order, Politics, Racism, The Americas, Women
Posted on 06 April 2009. Tags: American, Easter, English, Food, History, Jamaica, Religion, Tradition, jamaican, stories

KINGSTON, Jamaica – While American families hide colored eggs and eat chocolate bunnies, Jamaica’s tradition of eating Easter bun and cheese, fortune telling and Carnival are the ways this island celebrates this holiday period.
COMMON EASTER TRADITIONS
Easter egg predictions
One of Jamaica's long established practices is the setting of an egg to predict one's future. It is ...
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Posted on 05 April 2009. Tags: African American, Alabama, America, Black Music, Entertainment, Lionel Ritchie, Rap Music, Wales

As Lionel Ritchie prepares to return to Wales as part of his latest UK tour, he talks to Gavin Allen about his career renaissance, his love life and the death of black music
FOR a man synonymous with romantic ballads, Lionel Ritchie hasn’t been particularly lucky in love.
Ritchie started his career writing up-tempo club tunes with ...
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Posted on 05 April 2009. Tags: Africa, Africans, Economics, Economy, South Africa, Zimbabwe

South Africa could experience a “commercial boom” if trade with Zimbabwe was increased, Zimbabwean Economic Planning and Development Minister Elton Mangoma said on Monday.
Mangoma urged South African companies to recapitalise and extend some loans to their Zimbabwe affiliates.
Once Zimbabwean companies could access South African products and services more easily, demand for South African-produced goods would ...
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Posted on 05 April 2009. Tags: Events, colourful radio, radio

Party People and Colourful Radio invite you to Behind The Groove this Easter Thursday 9th April at The Korsan Bar, 161 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch E8 8AL. DJs include Calvin Francis, James Anthony, Gordon Mac, DJ Elayne, Mastermind, Pete Andrew, Leroy Johnson and more. Admission £10 all night. Doors open 10pm, Dress Code smart casual.
To book ...
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