http://www.blackpresence.co.uk Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:06:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/students-how-to-curb-your-debt/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/students-how-to-curb-your-debt/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:01:22 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2209 The recent report published Universities UK, which represents vice-chancellors, in which it concluded that University tuition fees should more than double to 6,500 Pounds per year is once again a reminder of just how expensive higher education is in Britain today. The above report is to be taken into account by the new Coalition Government [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/students-how-to-curb-your-debt/feed/ 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/annie-gross-tried-for-murder-1912/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/annie-gross-tried-for-murder-1912/#comments Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:12:48 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2186 Annie Gross was a black entertainer from America. She and her husband Harry had been working in New York before touring British Music Halls. Harry Gross had left Annie for an actress called Jessie Mackintosh, they were living in actors lodgings in Coram Street, Central London. He had been in a song and dance act [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/annie-gross-tried-for-murder-1912/feed/ 2 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/lennox-lewis/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/lennox-lewis/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:57:36 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2123 Lennox Lewis was Britains last Heavyweight Champion boxer. Despite a reputedly high, undisclosed personal wealth, Lennox Lewis remains one of the most likeable sporting personalities of this century. Lennox Claudius Lewis was born in Stratford, London on 2 September 1965. His names could not be more aptly chosen as Lennox is Gaelic and means ‘chieftain’ [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/lennox-lewis/feed/ 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/the-negro-soldier/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/the-negro-soldier/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:46:16 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2113 This clip from a War Department film shows African-American soldiers being trained for combat during World War 2. The Tuskegee Airmen are seen flying fighter planes in the U.S., while other soldiers train in arctic conditions. There’s no year given, but it’s probably 1942 or 1943.]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/the-negro-soldier/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/black-soldiers/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/black-soldiers/#comments Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:25:30 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2105 Throughout History the role of the black soldier has been underplayed in Western Armies. Black people have fought in all the Major European Armies including those of Poland and Germany. African American troops fought in Both world Wars and subsequent conflicts. African colonial troops fought in the First World War in Europe. Look through the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/07/black-soldiers/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/03/africanblack-media-must-unite-to-deliver-clear-message/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/03/africanblack-media-must-unite-to-deliver-clear-message/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:26:44 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1837 BlackPresence website is now 12 years old and many changes have befallen the internet since its inception. We have gone from a time when there was hardly any black presence on the Internet to having a massive amount of black owned, black run websites, all singing their own songs. It has long occurred to me [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/03/africanblack-media-must-unite-to-deliver-clear-message/feed/ 7 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/w-e-du-bois/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/w-e-du-bois/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:48:36 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1820 William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on (February 23, 1868? he was an American civil rights activist,Pan-Africanist,sociologist,historian,author, and editor. He grew up in Great Barrington, a predominately Anglo American town. His Mother, Mary Silvina Burghardt’s family was part of the very small free black population of Great Barrington, having long owned land in the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/w-e-du-bois/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/calling-all-artists/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/calling-all-artists/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:56:38 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1746 Call for submission open to poets, writers, journalists, bloggers and graphic artists from all backgrounds and origins. We invite you to write in solidarity for Haiti. You can send us poems, song lyrics, short stories, opinion pieces, drawings, paintings or photographs. The work must be about or inspired by Haiti, its people and its culture. [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/calling-all-artists/feed/ 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/swing-dancing-from-the-movie-hellzapoppin-1941/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/swing-dancing-from-the-movie-hellzapoppin-1941/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:47:56 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1597 Found this excellent video on Youtube today, some footage of African American Jazz music in the 40′s.]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/swing-dancing-from-the-movie-hellzapoppin-1941/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/jackie-robinson-baseball-player/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/jackie-robinson-baseball-player/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:00:11 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1472 Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson (January 31, 1919 October 24, 1972) was the first African American Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to openly play in the major leagues since the 1880s, he [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/jackie-robinson-baseball-player/feed/ 0