http://www.blackpresence.co.uk Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/operation-hope-recovery-postponed/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/operation-hope-recovery-postponed/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:50:00 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=4146 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/operation-hope-recovery-postponed/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/the-role-of-a-steelband-in-the-community/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/the-role-of-a-steelband-in-the-community/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:40:50 +0000 Jamma http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2939 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/the-role-of-a-steelband-in-the-community/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/03/midsomer-murders/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/03/midsomer-murders/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:05:00 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3081 Brian True-May, the Co-writer of the hit T.V series “Midsomer Murders” has recently defended the fact that the show has an all white cast. Describing the show as ” A Last bastion of Englishness” before stating that he felt it should stay that way. Personally I think he’s talking tripe. Having grown up in an [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/03/midsomer-murders/feed/ 3 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/04/taste-of-africa/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/04/taste-of-africa/#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 14:17:50 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1900 ‘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 of [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/04/taste-of-africa/feed/ 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/calling-all-artists/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/calling-all-artists/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:56:38 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1746 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. [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/calling-all-artists/feed/ 2 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/john-la-rose-poet-and-activist/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/john-la-rose-poet-and-activist/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:00:43 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1602 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/john-la-rose-poet-and-activist/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/jackie-robinson-baseball-player/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/jackie-robinson-baseball-player/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:00:11 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1472 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, he [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/jackie-robinson-baseball-player/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/sugar-cubes-in-my-fridge/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/sugar-cubes-in-my-fridge/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:34:01 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=972 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/sugar-cubes-in-my-fridge/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/interracial-couple-kissing-makes-readers-hot/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/interracial-couple-kissing-makes-readers-hot/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:21:22 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=840 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/interracial-couple-kissing-makes-readers-hot/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/a-tale-of-a-forgotten-people-pt1/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/a-tale-of-a-forgotten-people-pt1/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:01:12 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=799 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/a-tale-of-a-forgotten-people-pt1/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/zimbabwe-needs-private-sector-to-help-restart-economy-%e2%80%93-minister/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/zimbabwe-needs-private-sector-to-help-restart-economy-%e2%80%93-minister/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:29:58 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=666 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/zimbabwe-needs-private-sector-to-help-restart-economy-%e2%80%93-minister/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/virgin-islands-diageo-lays-out-green-plan-at-czm-hearing-gets-public-support/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/virgin-islands-diageo-lays-out-green-plan-at-czm-hearing-gets-public-support/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:18:42 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=593 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/virgin-islands-diageo-lays-out-green-plan-at-czm-hearing-gets-public-support/feed/ 0