09 October 2011 Greetings Family, This is the last of the African History Month Event listings for 2011, In the previous mailout we made an error regarding the Hackney Museum Our African Roots event which is an invite only launch. This mailout is therefore a repeat of the last one including a few additions and corrections. It may NOT be ...

What: NARM African British Civil Rights History + A Focus On Dr Harold Moody NARM (Naming And Role Model) consultant Kwaku will deliver an inter-active presentation on African British Civil Rights highlighting activists from the NARM book, including Dr Harold Moody of the League Of Coloured Peoples, who lived and worked in Southwark. There will also be an edutainment performance that speaks to the ...

On the night the indigO2 will be filled with the very best in black British & international film, TV and entertainment talent vying to either win one of the coveted awards or gracing us with their glamorous presence and you can mingle with all the celebrities freely as the whole awards is a VIP space. The ...

I often think that my mixed heritage gives me a fantastic advantage of speaking about race issues.  A perspective that some times I feel neither Black or White people can truly understand. Looking in the mirror every day as a child and wondering where my brown features came from was a particularly hard thing to grapple with ...

Prime Minister David Cameron has called on faith groups to play a part in transforming society and mending broken Britain. Writing exclusively in the latest edition of Keep The Faith, Britain's leading magazine about Britain's black Christian community, he wrote, "I think that faith has a role to play in mending the breakdown of responsibility in ...

the Merseyside Black History Month Group are pleased to announce that the 7th Annual Black Achievers Awards will again be held at St George’s Hall, on the 29th October. This event is now firmly placed on Merseyside’s Cultural Diversity calendar and we predict that this year’s event will be the biggest and best ever!.   The main act for the 2011 Black ...

MEMBERS of a group which caused a disturbance on a late night bus were ordered to pay £300 compensation to another passenger. Afro-Caribbean Kenroy Wallace believed that he was the target for racist comments on the Arriva bus from Whitby to Loftus, said prosecutor Martin Towers. Mr Wallace was pushed over a seat, and the bus was ...

The truth about one of Britain's most infamous race murders has never been revealed. At around midnight on May 17 1959, a white gang ambushed 32-year- old Antiguan carpenter Kelso Cochrane on a Notting Hill slum street. After a brief scuffle one of them plunged a knife into his heart. The impact was as profound as ...

Come and explore, discuss and celebrate, and help to lay the foundations for a major project, at the Institute of Education, London WC1H 0AL, on Tuesday 8th November, 6-8 p.m. Download the flyer    

Lawyers aim to promote diversity in graduate recruitment campaign Law firm Allen & Overy has appointed a specialist recruitment firm in order to find more candidates from an Afro-Caribbean background for its graduate recruitment campaign. The magic circle firm has signed up with Rare Recruitment, who specialise in ethnic minority recruitment, to help boost the proportion of ...

Article by: Soeren Kern   The Dutch government says it will abandon the long-standing model of multiculturalism that has encouraged Muslim immigrants to create a parallel society within the Netherlands. A new integration bill (), which Dutch Interior Minister Piet Hein Donner presented to parliament on June 16, reads: "The government shares the social dissatisfaction over the multicultural society ...

The N Word... Sick of mama screaming that “Get a job, nigga” Pressed to the limit, got to rob me a nigga Simple and plain, my man scooped me in a hooptie Wispered in his ear “This is what we got to do, G” Got to bang a nigga and bang a nigga good So I can cop a Benz and ...

(NEW BEDFORD, Mass.)  — It took nearly two hundred years but New Bedford now has a lasting tribute to Captain Paul Cuffe in the form of a park, dedicated today in his honor at the southern foot of historic Johnny Cake Hill. Paul Cuffe (1759-1817) was the free-born son of an African father and a Native ...

REMEMBERING CY GRANT Triple Bill celebrating the life of Guyanese lawyer, singer, writer, broadcaster, cultural activist, actor. In the drama They Met in a City: The Encyclopaedist (tx 11/4/61). BBC. Written by John Mortimer. 30min), a salesman from Trinidad tries to sell a set of encyclopeadia to a housewife on London’s Chelsea-Fulham border. The documentary Freedom Road: Songs of Negro Protest ...

Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American concert singer (bass-baritone), recording artist, athlete and actor who became noted for his political radicalism and activism in the Civil Rights Movement. Robeson was the first major concert star to popularize the performance of Negro Spirituals. He was the first Black actor of the ...

When searching the Records for The evidence of Early Black settlers in Britain.  Evidence is to be found everywhere. It just needs searching out.  the Old Bailey Website is an excellent source of records for evidence of Black people, living in Britain before the 20th Century. Here are some examples. Black people in the Old Bailey William Bosham ...

This year the Caribbean UK Film Festival 2011, hosted by actor Geff Frances and Charles Thompson MBE founder of the Screen Nation Awards, will explore the themes of fashion, music, sport and culture with a special feature honouring the lifetime achievements of actor Earl Cameron CBE - not to be missed! You are encouraged to come dressed in your own ...

1861: Anderson Ruffin Abbott (7 April 1837 – 29 December 1913) was the first Black Canadian to become a physician after being granted a medical licence from the medical board of Upper Canada in 1861. 1862: Washington, D.C.: Freedmen's Hospital is established & is the only Federally-funded health care facility for Negroes in the nation. 1864: ...

I have received many emails recently calling for the Africa Centre to be saved from sale. I thought that perhaps this one carries the most weight.  I cannot comment on the sale objectively , living outside London as I do.  I do however know how important the centre has been to Africans and Black Londoners in General. ...

The inspirational story and autobiographical details about Walter Tull, a black professional footballer in the early 1900s who went on to fight in the First World War. Walter was only the second black player in football league history when he played for Tottenham Hotspur in 1909 and, later, Northampton Town. During his time in the ...

  Samuel Coleridge Taylor, not to be mistaken with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was, at the turn of the last Century one of Britain's most outstanding Composers. Samuel Coleridge Taylor, not to be mistaken with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the writer, is today almost completely forgotten. However, he was, at the turn of the Century one of Britain's ...

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 ...

by P Gregory: Owner Editor of the Black Presence Website. So, Black History Month 2010 is upon us, and as I sit here and take a breather after working hard to get the website to a state of readiness, I wonder how long it will be before the mud starts flying? Black History Month, is at best ...