Flavour Magazine celebrates 5 years in print and online at its exclusive Miss Flavour event in London’s prestigious Café de Paris, 9pm-3am on Wednesday 9thNovember. Hosted by BBC 1xtra Charlie Sloth and Sarah-Jane Crawford with celebrity judge’s actor/director Adam Deacon, music artist Mz Bratt, BB from E4’s Dirty Sexy Things and SBTV’s Jamal Edwards and special headline performance by platinum recording artist Chipmunk. Flavour Magazine Co-founders Annika Allen and Leonard ...

Dear Friends, I hope you will be interested in an event that is taking place in two weeks time, on Tuesday 8th November at the Institute of Education in the University of London. The general picture of Black British history in our schools and universities is still very bleak. There are only two universities where we know ...

Clive Henry Accuses UPS Ltd of Racial Discrimination, Lawsuit Now Pending Before Court of Appeal in London & the European Human Rights Commission in Belgium. Clive Henry Vs UPS Ltd - Race Discrimination Case I worked at UPS Ltd for 11 years, with 100% attendance for seven years. I had NEVER received any disciplinary action before. In January 2008 I was asked by Manager A to supervise ...

 YBS - Young, Black and Successful Dear Supporters, This week marks the last week in Black History Month and we at Young, Black and Successful CIC are signing off with a BANG! We have several events lined up this week and we are hoping that you'll join us at some if not all of them. Be sure to ...

Secret History of the Black Pin Up: From Tease to Sleaze I recently wrote about the seemingly lackluster existence of Black pin up models from the 1950's... here and here. A collector, historian, and publisher by the name of Jim Linderman contacted me and divulged that he'd written and self-published a book detailing the life and ...

Soft Lights and Sweet Music Elisabeth Welch on Screen with Stephen Bourne Saturday 29 October 2011 @ 2:30pm-5.00pm Elisabeth Welch’s biographer, Stephen Bourne, will share his personal memories of the stage and screen legend. Born in New York, Elisabeth settled in London in 1933 and became the most famous Black woman in pre-war Britain. Her 70-year career included work ...

Working with Men presents: International Men’s Day concert  22nd November 2011 at London’s famous Jazz Café. Doors open at 6.30pm show starts at 7.00pm Live performances from Jazz Jamaica and Funky DL (other artists to be confirmed)   Working with men is an award winning charity supporting positive male activity, engagement and involvement, our work includes tackling conflict and knife related incidents ...

The National Portrait Gallery houses a unique collection of all forms of portraiture of the people who have made or who are currently contributing to British history and culture.  With more than 1.8 million visitors each year, the Gallery is one of the country’s most important and popular galleries.   Faith, Slavery and Identity Programme Internship Fixed-term for 6 ...

Job Details:Community Project Officer Ref1546X Department Education and Outreach Directorate Operations and ServicesBandBand ESpecialism Closing Date Monday 7th November 2011 at midnight Job Purpose Based in the Education & Outreach Department but with some national travel, the post holder will build and maintain links with new communities, specifically from African and Caribbean communities. You will work with these communities ...

Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African American Muslim Minister and Human Rights Activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the Rights of African Americans, a man who indicted White America in the harshest terms for its ...

Open the Door for Black Coaches Submitted Article by Carla Palmer There are 92 professional football clubs in the UK and about 25% of the players are black. Despite the fact that the number of black players has continued to rise there are only two black managers. This situation is contributed to by a lack of recognition ...

Caribbean Voices Memories of Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire's Caribbean Community  Wednesday 19th  October 2011 - Stoke-on-Trent Film Theatre. The film Caribbean Voices  got it's premier tonight at Stoke-on-Trent's Film theatre. The film which is the brainchild of local woman Monienne Stone. Miss Stone, who is the Secretary of The Charity Midlands Jamaica Aid, has been working with Local Filmmakers and ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africville Africville was a small community located on the southern shore of Bedford Basin, in the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. During the 20th Century, the City of Halifax began to encroach on the southern shores of Bedford Basin, and the community was eventually included as part of the city through Municipal Amalgamation. Africville ...

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 ...

lsrael's ties with South Africa seem to be especially disturbing to many who follow Israel's international activities. Perhaps it is natural that Israel has been castigated more harshly for its arms sales to South Africa than for its sales to other countries: first, because there has been for a decade an arms embargo against South ...

 South London Apprenticeship Fair Inner City youth organisation OFFBEAT is inviting businesses, communities and young people from across South London to attend the 'South London Apprenticeship Fair' (SLAF) on the 25th October 2011.   SLAF is being designed in partnership with Southwark and Lambeth councils, a network of youth delivery services, Versa and Southwark News as part of their 100 ...

Dear Friends, Operation Hope & Recovery scheduled for Friday night 16 September at Marsham Street has been postponed due to clashes with a number of other community events. It is now scheduled for late October and details will be posted on the website shortly. Thanks for your commitment to making a difference. This is a small glitch in a big program. Stay ...

129 People Charged with Apostasy in South Khartoum: Maximum Sentence is the Death Penalty (14 September 2011) On 29 July 2011, 150 people were arrested by police in Hay Mayo, South Khartoum. All are members of the Hausa ethnic group and from Darfur. While 21 individuals (children and the elderly) were immediately released, 129 were subsequently ...

The Birmingham school of Pan founded and Managed byJamma gives the youngsters a chance to do a lot of team work, also gives the parents in the community a chance to get involved, playing pan, percussion instruments, making food & Costumes for the band. bringing the True culture of the Steelbands ofTrinidad and Tobago to ...

Henry "Harry" Winston Jerome, OC (September 30, 1940 – December 7, 1982) was a Canadian track and field runner. He was the Grandson of John Howard, a Railway Porter who represented Canada in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he moved to North Vancouver at age 12. In 1970 he was made an ...

E-Migration:  Migrants in the Digital Age RSA on 25th October at 6.30 pm    Immigration used to involve packing an entire life into a suitcase and moving to a new country for good. Now, with modern communications and transport, it is far more fluid and dynamic. Modern migrants need not lose contact with their old homes; they can ...

  Democracy is Overrated Why every developing nation, from Iraq to Africa, needs economic freedom before political freedom By Oliver Harriehausen What does a developing nation need to become prosperous? International politics is dedicated to this question, and is usually answered when rich Western governments patronizingly announce a) what makes their country special, and b) why the poor countries ...

Black Hair Care – Caring for Biracial Hair By Juliette Samuel Biracial Hair Care Tips Every day, our world gets smaller.  Not in the sense that the Earth is shrinking in size, but in terms of cultural and racial borders.  Because we are able to travel more, we are exposed to many other cultures…and the opportunity to fall ...

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 ...

Call for Papers Writing Slavery after Beloved Literature, Historiography, Criticism International Symposium Université de Nantes – France March 16-17, 2012 Can Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) be considered as a watershed in the contemporary representations of slavery and the slave trade, not only in the literary field, but also in historiography and Cultural Studies? This Symposium will attempt to assess whether this major ...