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Posted on 18 August 2010. Tags: Black History, Black Writing

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 great heights of ...
Posted in African, Black Blog Posts, Black History, Black Writing, Books, Caribbean, Community, Education, Poetry, Religion
Posted on 09 August 2010. Tags: Brand, Charities, Community, Daddy Cool, Facebook, Samantha Watson, Twitter

Black non-profit organisations are fighting for air as they currently feel the financial squeeze. Funding, funding and more funding is what nearly every non-profit organisation wants or fears they may not receive. The other pulling factor is that their valuable work is not being recognised. So what you will find is that many organisations end ...
Posted in Black Blog Posts, Black Britain, Black Britons, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Community, Media, News, Women
Posted on 19 April 2010. Tags: about my vote, Black Voting, Conservative, Ethnic minority voting behaviour, Labour, Labour Liberal, Politics, Politics and race, register to vote

With the UK general election called for May 6th 2010.? It's time to make sure you are registered to vote.
To register to vote you can visit About My vote
Now there are a great many of you who will be saying that they don't like politicians, and that what do politicians actually do for you anyway?
Something ...
Posted in African, Black Blog Posts, Black Britain, Black Britons, Caribbean, Community, History, Politics
Posted on 10 March 2010. Tags: Black Media, Black radio, Black TV, black websites, collaboration, podcasts

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 that ...
Posted in African, African American, Arts, Black Blog Posts, Black Britons, Black Presence, Black Writing, Caribbean, Community, Europe, History, Media, News, Politics
Posted on 15 September 2009. Tags: African American, Americas, Black, Community, Education, History, race

Washington Post Staff Writer DeNeen L. Brown wrote an interesting? August 20, 2009 About how Americas Elite blacks are flocking to Martha's Vineyard to take their annual holidays.
Over the 4 page web article. Brown highlights the fact that this isn't a new phenomenon, but a generational thing. Black families have been attracted to the ...
Posted in African American, Black Blog Posts, Community, History, News, The Americas
Posted on 30 March 2009. Tags: Bia, cartoons, Disney, Inter racial, kids, Media, Movies, race, Racism, Tiana

Now that Disney have finally stepped up to the plate and produced an African American Princess, is everyone happy?
Of course not, there are those who don't like the African American Princess Idea, those who don't like the fact that she doesn't have a Black Prince.
Can Disney ever please everyone, probably not.
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Posted in African American, Arts, Beauty & Fashion, Black Blog Posts, Business, Education, Entertainment, Movies, Racism, The Americas, Women
Posted on 25 March 2009. Tags: African American, Black Men, Community, Eric Holder, John Ridley, Media, Michael Steele, Obama, Personalities, Politics, Richard Parsons, University

Blogger John Ridley points out that whilst the President of the worldsmost powerful country enjoys cosy nights on comfy chatshows, and other African American high flyers like Eric Holder, Michael Steele and Richard Parsons are making headlines the situation is considerably worse for the average African American male.
My response to this is, "Yeah, tell us something ...
Posted in African American, Black Blog Posts, Community, Education, History, Men, News, Politics, Students, The Americas, Women
Posted on 15 March 2009. Tags: Black Music, hop hop, Women

Daniella Maison is the edgy, unswerving, soulful writer been best known for her series of poetry publications since her astonishing poetical debut in 2000. A young Masters graduate, Maison currently works as a freelance writer and part time music promoter, and is set to make an impact within the local and wider community, she comments:
‘James ...
Posted in African, African American, Arts, Black Blog Posts, Black Britain, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Caribbean, Community, Education, Europe, History, Media, Music, Poetry, Women
Posted on 14 March 2009. Tags: black Blogs, Black forums, black websites, Poll, Social Networking

[poll id="2"]
With the runaway success of social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace, are small black run websites, blogs and forums still needed? What role do they have to play in delivering information to users? Discuss...
Posted in African, African American, Black Blog Posts, Black Britain, Caribbean, Community, Media
Posted on 13 March 2009. Tags: Black, Black British, children, equiano, History, London, nigeria, nigerian, plaques, Westminster Abbey

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) and ...
Posted in African, Black Blog Posts, Black Britain, Books, Caribbean, Community, Education, Europe, Events, History, Slavery, The Americas
Posted on 12 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Black, Dr Dre, Grammy, Hip, hop, Michael Jackson, Music, rap, Rizla, stories, street, writing

I too have a dream!
I usta hang out all day with my cousin, fantasizing about the day we were gonna be supa rich and famous. My cousin had a studio in the basement of his yard over on the West side of town; Powis Square. I rented a tiny room on the North side, ...
Posted in Arts, Black Blog Posts, Black Britain, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Community, Europe, Music, Poetry
Posted on 10 March 2009. Tags: Africa, African Wars, child soldiers, exploitation, Sudan, War, warchild

GUA Africa was founded by Emmanuel Jal, an ex-child soldier turned rap artist. The word GUA (pronounced gwaah) means peace in Nuer, a tribal language of Southern Sudan.
Emmanuel Jal was just three years old when civil war broke out in Sudan, it was a war that would last 22 years killing an estimated 2 ...
Posted in African, Black Blog Posts, History, Media, War
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