Posted on 15 December 2011.
SI Leeds Literary Prize is a new award for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women resident in the UK aged 18 years and over.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. ...
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Posted on 27 October 2011.
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 on18 January 1981 at 439 ...
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Posted on 21 September 2011.
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 forty-four year ...
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Posted on 24 June 2011.
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 Rumina Sethi challenges postcolonial critics to put their ...
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Posted on 21 June 2011.
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 Manchester, Liverpool and London Thursday 30 ...
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Posted on 04 May 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 29 March 2011.
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 battle fatigues and dreadlocks to ...
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Posted on 11 November 2010.
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 ...
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Posted on 10 October 2010.
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, ...
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Posted on 26 September 2010.
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, ...
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Posted on 14 September 2010.
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 win, ...
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Posted on 23 August 2010.
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. Â The article below ...
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Posted on 18 August 2010.
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 ...
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Posted on 08 April 2010.
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 Africa. ...
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Posted on 07 April 2010.
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 effortlessly destroying ...
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Posted on 28 February 2010.
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 ...
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Posted on 23 February 2010.
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 state. ...
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Posted on 17 February 2010.
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 money, ...
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Posted on 16 February 2010.
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 Indian ...
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Posted on 08 January 2010.
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 four years ...
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Posted on 06 January 2010.
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 to ...
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Posted on 18 September 2009.
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 ...
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Posted on 18 March 2009.
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 ...
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Posted on 16 March 2009.
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 ...
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Posted on 16 March 2009.
"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 a ...
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