Posted on 07 April 2010. Tags: African food, Broadwater Farm, Caribbean food, Defra, Department for Environment, Edgware, Food and Rural Affairs, Importing food, Mama Cass, Stonebridge hub, Taste of Africa, West African food

'Taste of Africa' events help raise awareness of the Personal Food Imports campaign within the African community
Check the rules about personal food imports before you travel - this was the message to members of the African community attending a series of local Taste of Africa events held across London last weekend.
The Taste ...
Posted in African, Black Britain, Black Britons, Blackpresence Supports, Business, Caribbean, Community, Education, Environment, Food, Health, Politics
Posted on 16 February 2010. Tags: Artists, Earthquake, Haiti disaster, Help Haiti

Call for submission open to poets, writers, journalists, bloggers and graphic artists from all backgrounds and origins. We invite you to write in solidarity for Haiti. You can send us poems, song lyrics, short stories, opinion pieces, drawings, paintings or photographs. The work must be about or inspired by Haiti, its people and its culture.
The ...
Posted in African, African American, Arts, Black Britain, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Caribbean, Community, Environment, Health, Job Vacancies, Media, Students, Women
Posted on 16 February 2010. Tags: black Poets, black writers, C.L.R.James, Caribbean Artists movement, Caribbean Education and Community Workers Association', Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott, he Black Parents movement, Third World books, Trinidad, 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 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 ...
Posted in Arts, Black Britain, Black Britons, Black Writing, Books, Caribbean, Community, Education, Environment, History, Media, Men, Poetry, Politics, The Americas
Posted on 31 January 2010. Tags: 761st Tank division, African, African American, Baseball, Fort Hood, Negro League, World series

Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 October 24, 1972) was the first African American Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. As the first black man to openly play in the major leagues since the 1880s, ...
Posted in African American, Education, Environment, History, Men, Sports, The Americas, War
Posted on 17 September 2009. Tags: Africa, Ants, Bugs, Environment, Ghana

The term cultural shock is very real. A split second of brain overload, a sense of loss coupled with confusion. Like the day I woke sweating and feeling dehydrated. This led me to my newly acquired Tosiba fridge. It was only when i opened it i became conscious of my being in Africa. There was ...
Posted in African, Black Britain, Community, Education, Environment
Posted on 23 April 2009. Tags: Black, Blacks, Inter racial, magazines, News, race, Racing, stories

My Monday column is about the challenges facing news organizations trying to maintain conversations with readers while keeping the discourse civil and thoughtful.
Consider what happened recently when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s weekly magazine, Go!, ran an article about the best places to smooch and featured a picture of an interracial couple kissing on the magazine ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Education, Environment, Europe, Men, Politics
Posted on 14 April 2009. Tags: Africa, African, Africans, Army, Congo, Crime, Death, Economics, ethnicity, Europe, Genocide, Holocaust, Politicians, Politics, president, Sudan, Troops, violence, War, Women

A Tale of a Forgotten People
By Vava Tampa
Outside public eyes in a remote corner of Africa and literally under the world's radar screen, a country is sinking in a river of blood! Mothers crying! Fathers and sons trading hot metals! Neighbours, in alliance with local armed groups, seething through the thick dense forest to ...
Posted in African, Community, Education, Environment, Events, Famine, Health, History, Media, Men, Military, Racism, Religion, War, Women
Posted on 05 April 2009. Tags: Africa, Africans, Economics, Economy, South Africa, Zimbabwe

South Africa could experience a “commercial boom†if trade with Zimbabwe was increased, Zimbabwean Economic Planning and Development Minister Elton Mangoma said on Monday.
Mangoma urged South African companies to recapitalise and extend some loans to their Zimbabwe affiliates.
Once Zimbabwean companies could access South African products and services more easily, demand for South African-produced goods would ...
Posted in African, Business, Community, Environment, Politics
Posted on 20 March 2009. Tags: Business, Caribbean, Environment, Investment, Rum, Virgin Islands

The Captain Morgan's rum distillery planned for St. Croix will release no molasses or other effluent into the sea, instead converting it to organic solids suitable for soil enrichment, Diageo officials told the V.I. Coastal Zone Management committee Wednesday. At the committee's public hearing on the Diageo CZM permit in the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport ...
Posted in Business, Caribbean, Community, Environment, News, The Americas
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