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Blackpresence » Books http://www.blackpresence.co.uk Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 SI Leeds Literary Prize http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/12/si-leeds-literary-prize/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/12/si-leeds-literary-prize/#comments Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:00:03 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=6934

SI Leeds Literary Prize is a new award for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women resident in the UK aged 18 years and over. The prize has been created and is being run by Soroptimist International of Leeds, in partnership with two well established and highly regarded literary organisations, the Ilkley Literature Festival and independent publishers Peepal Tree Press. [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/12/si-leeds-literary-prize/feed/ 0 New Cross Massacre – Book http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/new-cross-massacre-book/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/new-cross-massacre-book/#comments Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:04:38 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=6826

GEORGE PADMORE INSTITUTE in association with NEW BEACON BOOKS Invite you to the launch of THE NEW CROSS MASSACRE STORY - INTERVIEWS WITH JOHN LA ROSE prologue by Linton Kwesi Johnson and epilogue by Gus John on Thursday 17 November at 6.30pm George Padmore Institute, 76 Stroud Green Road, London N4 3EN The New Cross Massacre Fire took place [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/new-cross-massacre-book/feed/ 0 Alexandre Dumas http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/alexandre-dumas/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/alexandre-dumas/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:30:37 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3873 Dumas

Alexandre Dumas was the Grandson of a French Nobleman, and a Haitian slave. http://www.gradesaver.com/author/alexandre-dumas/ When a mulatto general from Napoleon’s army retired to the small northeastern town of Villers-Cotterets, France, little did the natives know that their town was now destined to become the birthplace of the great Alexandre Dumas. On July 24, 1802 the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/alexandre-dumas/feed/ 0 The Politics of Postcolonialism: Empire, Nation and Resistance http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/postcolonialism/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/postcolonialism/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:44:01 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3561 Politics of-post-colonialism

A strong argument for returning the focus of postcolonial studies to its roots as a tool for political activism among people of the third world. The Politics of Postcolonialism: Empire, Nation and Resistance Rumina Sethi Released July 4th 2011 PB / £ 17.99 / 9780745323633 / 215mm x 135mm / 192 pp [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/postcolonialism/feed/ 0 Jailhouse Lawyers http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/3548/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/3548/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:00:13 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3548

From death row in Pennsylvania, launch of a new book in the UK cc JAILHOUSE LAWYERS PRISONERS DEFENDING PRISONERS v THE USA By Mumia Abu-Jamal Foreword by Angela Y. Davis, Introduction by Selma James Published by Crossroads Books Price: £11.99 Free to Prisoners. (See order form below.) Donations welcome to help cover costs. Launch events in [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/3548/feed/ 0 The Slave Trade – James Walvin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/the-slave-trade-james-walvin/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/the-slave-trade-james-walvin/#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 20:11:00 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3328 The Slave Trade - Walvin

When I was asked to review “The Slave Trade” By James Walvin, It was with some trepidation because I had read many books on the Slave Trade during my time as a student and expected some weighty and wordy tome. That would have to be waded through and then deciphered before I could even begin to think of writing [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/the-slave-trade-james-walvin/feed/ 0 I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/03/i-i-the-natural-mystics-marley-tosh-and-wailer/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/03/i-i-the-natural-mystics-marley-tosh-and-wailer/#comments Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:00:12 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3104 I & I:

I & I: The Natural Mystics: Marley, Tosh and Wailer By Colin Grant Published by Jonathan Cape on 27th January 2011 in hardback, priced £20 Over one dramatic decade, a trio of Trench Town R&B crooners, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley, swapped their 1960s Brylcreem hairdos and two-tone suits for 1970s [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/03/i-i-the-natural-mystics-marley-tosh-and-wailer/feed/ 0 The Book of Negroes: 1783 & 2007 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/11/book-of-negroes/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/11/book-of-negroes/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:25:39 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2868

Aminata Diallo, an 11-year-old child, is taken from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle � a string of slaves. Eventually, she arrives in South Carolina where she begins a new life as a slave. Years later, she finds freedom, serving the British in the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/11/book-of-negroes/feed/ 0 Black History Refreshed by Mother Country http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/10/black-history-refreshed-by-bournes-latest/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/10/black-history-refreshed-by-bournes-latest/#comments Sun, 10 Oct 2010 12:09:27 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2286 Mother Country - Stephen Bourne

Black British History went through something of a coming out party in the late 1990′s and early naughties. Real interest arose in the contributions of Black people in Britain and The Internet brought forth a whole plethora of sites and snippets of information all with the aim of finally setting the history books straight. However, [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/10/black-history-refreshed-by-bournes-latest/feed/ 8 C.L.R. James – Writer http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/c-l-r-james-writer/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/c-l-r-james-writer/#comments Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:25:41 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2645 CLC James

� CLR (Cyril Lionel RobertJames was a Marxist writer, political commentator, and Cricket lover. One of his most famous works is “The Black Jacobins”; a biography of “Tousaint Louverture” the Haitian Revoloutionary. Born in Trinidad, he attended the Queen’s Royal College on the island before becoming a cricket journalist and also writing fiction. In 1932, [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/c-l-r-james-writer/feed/ 3 Almost British-New Book Highlights Prison Injustice http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/new-book-highlights-prison-injustice/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/new-book-highlights-prison-injustice/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 11:02:47 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2303

Occasionally here at blackpresence we get sent manuscripts advertising upcoming books. We always try to support quality work our online community, none more so than the upcoming book “Almost British” from Author Olivea M Ebanks. The Passion that this book is written with shines through. Olivea’s determination, not just to take on the establishment and [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/new-book-highlights-prison-injustice/feed/ 1 Tackling The National Debt 1771 Style http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/tackling-the-national-debt-1771/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/tackling-the-national-debt-1771/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:53:05 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2354 Balancing the Debt

Today Most Western countries are struggling to pay off their national debt and keep their houses in order, it seems though, that things have been the same many times before. The 1770′s were no different. People came up with unpopular and outlandish ideas to balance the books, just as they do today. The article below [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/tackling-the-national-debt-1771/feed/ 0 The sound of Running Water – Summer Promotion http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/the-sound-of-running-water-summer-promotion/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/the-sound-of-running-water-summer-promotion/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:02:57 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2317

Dear All, I am pleased to inform you that we now have a Summer Promotion on “The Sound of Running Water” with a free delivery service. Information on “The Sound of Running Water” ” The Sound of Running Water ” is a Pocket-sized gift book of Proverbs and Quotations aimed to inspire our minds into [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/the-sound-of-running-water-summer-promotion/feed/ 1 Black Websites Collaborate – Africa Awakening http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/04/black-websites-collaborate-africa-awakening/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/04/black-websites-collaborate-africa-awakening/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:30:46 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1912 Tony Tokunbo Eteka Fernandez

As part of our new collaboration theme, black Presence are please to introduce Africa Awakening! Africa Awakening was established by Tony Tokunbo Fernandez in the summer of 2000. This online medium provides a wealth of information, news and entertainment for our growing audience in The UK, The States, South Africa and many parts of West [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/04/black-websites-collaborate-africa-awakening/feed/ 0 No Place to Hide – Errol Christie http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/04/no-place-to-hide-errol-christie/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/04/no-place-to-hide-errol-christie/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:00:35 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1907 Errol Christie - No Place to Hide

NO PLACE TO HIDE How I Put The Black In The Union Jack Errol Christie with Tony McMahon Seeing my future crumble before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. Before my eyes, I saw an eight year old kid at the Standard Triumph putting on gloves for the first time. A teenage schoolboy champion [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/04/no-place-to-hide-errol-christie/feed/ 0 Lenny Henry – Othello http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/lenny-henry-othello/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/lenny-henry-othello/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:34:45 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1829 Lenny Henry as Othello

If you missed the opportunity to see Lenny Henry Play Othello on the Theatre Circuit last year, you’ll be pleased to know that the BBC ran it on Radio4 Today. you can also listen to the programme that followed Henry as he prepared for the role. Listen to the whole Play here on iPlayer. Amazon.co.uk [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/lenny-henry-othello/feed/ 1 W.E Du Bois 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 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1820 W-E-DuBois

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 Aunt Esther’s Story – Stephen Bourne http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/aunt-esthers-story/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/aunt-esthers-story/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:02:34 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1772 Stephen bourne and his aunt Esther

In 1991 Stephen Bourne and his adopted aunt, Esther Bruce (1912-94), collaborated on her autobiography Aunt Esthers Story. This is now recognised as one of the first books to document the life of a Black working-class Londoner. In 2007 Bourne assisted in the production of a short documentary, also called Aunt Esther’s Story, with no [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/aunt-esthers-story/feed/ 0 John La Rose – Poet and Activist http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/john-la-rose-poet-and-activist/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/john-la-rose-poet-and-activist/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:00:43 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1602

John La Rose is a political and Cultural activist. He came to Britain from Trinidad where he had been working as General Secretary to the West Indian Independence Party. John La Rose is a political and Cultural activist. He came to Britain from Trinidad where he had been working as General Secretary to the West [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/john-la-rose-poet-and-activist/feed/ 0 Ben Okri – Writer http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/ben-okri-writer/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/ben-okri-writer/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:00:15 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1469

Ben Okri O.B.E. is a Booker Prize winning Author and Poet. Okri was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Famished Road (1991). Set in a Nigerian village <p>Ben Okri was Born in Nigeria in 1959. He is a journalist and writer by trade. He traveled to Britain when he was just [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/ben-okri-writer/feed/ 0 Ignatius Sancho http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/ignatius-sancho/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/ignatius-sancho/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:50:11 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1456

Ignatius Sancho was the first African prose writer whose work was published in England. Ignatius Sancho was the first African prose writer whose work was published in England. A former slave and renowned shopkeeper, Sancho came to England at the age of two, it was 1731. The Duke of Montague made him presents of books [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/ignatius-sancho/feed/ 1 Black British Reading List http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/black-british-reading-list/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/black-british-reading-list/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:57:24 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1018 Black History Books

A reading list of books related to the ongoing black presence in Britain, Slavery, colonialism and black Settlement in the U.K The list is by no means exhaustive! Staying Power-The History of Black people in Britain by Peter Fryer (Pluto Press 1984) Black England-Life before Emancipation by Gretchen Gerzina (John Murray,1995) Black Settlers in Britain [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/black-british-reading-list/feed/ 1 The Streets are always Watching – Short Story by Raymondobie http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-streets-are-always-watching-short-story-by-raymondobie/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-streets-are-always-watching-short-story-by-raymondobie/#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:05:53 +0000 raymondobe http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=514

Same old Same old The Streets are always watching. That night,as I lay on my bed listening to the dogs bark, I began to wonder how much more I could take, and I began to get a terrible feeling inside my chest and a tightness at the back of my throat, and I jerked upright with my head spinning and stared into the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-streets-are-always-watching-short-story-by-raymondobie/feed/ 0 The Walter Tull Campaign – More Information about Walter Tull and News about the Campaign http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-walter-tull-campaign-more-information-about-walter-tull-and-news-about-the-campaign/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-walter-tull-campaign-more-information-about-walter-tull-and-news-about-the-campaign/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:58:33 +0000 User Contibuted Article http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=487 Tull Family

Walter Tull was born at 16 Allendale Street, Folkstone in April 1888. His father was a joiner from St Thomas Parish in Barbados and came to Britain in 1876. He married a local girl from Folkestone in 1880 and together they had six children. In 1897, Walter and his siblings were orphaned when first his [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-walter-tull-campaign-more-information-about-walter-tull-and-news-about-the-campaign/feed/ 1 Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 years of Success http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-inventors-crafting-over-200-years-of-success/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-inventors-crafting-over-200-years-of-success/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:43:18 +0000 User Contibuted Article http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=484 black inventors crafting 200 year

“Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 years of Success”. It is one of the most comprehensive books on Black Inventors since Henry E. Baker’s research on Black inventors in the early 20th century. This book identifies Black inventors from five continents, over seventy countries, including almost all fifty states in the United States. This book cites [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-inventors-crafting-over-200-years-of-success/feed/ 0 Memorial Plaque dedcated to Olaudah Equiano http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/memorial-plaque-dedcated-to-olaudah-equiano/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/memorial-plaque-dedcated-to-olaudah-equiano/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:47:40 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=418

About 300 people attended Monday night’s dedication in St, Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, of a memorial plaque to Olaudah Equiano (c.1745-97), the leading black abolitionist. Equiano had been baptised at the Church in February 1759. While people waited for the start of the service the Church organist played the ‘Trumpet Voluntary’ by John Stanley (1712-86) [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/memorial-plaque-dedcated-to-olaudah-equiano/feed/ 0 Pioneering African American Cartoonists http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/pioneering-african-american-cartoonists/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/pioneering-african-american-cartoonists/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:28:45 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=238 spt_alston

During the segregated years of the 1900 through 1960s America, the Black Press offered comic strips that featured African American heroes & heroines in a wide variety of life situations. These characters were not confined to gritty ‘inner-city’ stories, poor ‘ghetto’ life or as one dimensional comic relief as today . Just as the ‘mainstream’ [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/pioneering-african-american-cartoonists/feed/ 0 Black British History – Some Light reading http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-british-history-some-light-reading/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-british-history-some-light-reading/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:43:22 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=113

* Staying Power-The History of Black people in Britain by Peter Fryer (Pluto Press 1984) * Black England-Life before Emancipation by Gretchen Gerzina (John Murray,1995) * Black Settlers in Britain 1555-1958 by Nigel File and chris Power (Heinemann,1981; reprinted 1995) * Black Edwardians-Black people in Britain 1901-1914 by Jeffrey Green (Frank Cass 1998) * Wonderful [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-british-history-some-light-reading/feed/ 0 Whistle a Historical Tune – New Song Collection Honors Thirteen Great African Americans in History http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/02/whistle-a-historical-tune-new-song-collection-honors-thirteen-great-african-americans-in-history/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/02/whistle-a-historical-tune-new-song-collection-honors-thirteen-great-african-americans-in-history/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:35:56 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=59 African American History in song

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y., Oct 21, 2008 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — African American History Month annually celebrates important events and honorable people of African heritage during the month of February. Uniquely, its celebration, which began in 1926 as Negro/Black History Week and grew to become African American History Month in recent decades, underscores our nation’s multiethnic and [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/02/whistle-a-historical-tune-new-song-collection-honors-thirteen-great-african-americans-in-history/feed/ 0