Posted on 26 January 2012.
It’s hard to overestimate the importance of the dancer Josephine Baker in the annals of European Black History in this century. She quite literally changed everything for black artists in Paris, and as a consequence, the world over. Paris was the centre of the artistic and music world at the time Baker exploded onto the ...
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Posted on 24 January 2012.
If , like me, you keep an eye on the British media and the way that it reports race, then you will not have let events of December 2011 go unnoticed. Seasoned observers of the media will recognise that headlines seem to be on a perpetual carousel, every now and again base reuse its ugly head. ...
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Posted on 28 December 2011.
Wallace Fard Muhammad was a Minister and founder of the Nation of Islam. He established the Nation of Islam's first Mosque in Detroit, Michigan in 1930, and ministered his distinctive religion there for three years, before mysteriously disappearing in June 1934. { The Al-Rashid Mosque in Edmonton Alberta, Canada was expected to be the first Mosque ...
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Posted on 14 December 2011.
Wed, May 3 1995 - Guardian In the early years of the war Britain made frequent requests for help from its colonies. One man to respond was Billy Strachan. Like most Jamaicans at the time he regarded Britain as his homeland, and enlisting it seemed a natural option. "I went to the British Army camp in ...
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Posted on 28 October 2011.
Greetings, Time seems to have flown by since August last year when we saw images on our tv screens of our communities again going up in flames after a Black man had died at the hands of the police. It was a signal reminder of how quickly our memories dim when all the media outlets started to howl about ...
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Posted on 27 October 2011.
This one day conference will examine and advocate the importance of critical thinking and reflective practice in health and social care. The conference will focus on how reflective practice can enhance individual / team learning , the service user experience and service delivery. Many staff working within Social Services and the NHS at present, are ...
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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 27 October 2011.
The George Padmore Institute in association with the Black Cultural Archives Invite you to a screening of Mangrove 9 Directed by Franco Rosso Produced by Franco Rosso & John La Rose (1973) On Tuesday 8th November at 7.00pm At the Karibu Education Centre 7 Gresham Road, Brixton SW9 7PH [Nearest under or overground – Brixton] The screening presents the original full version ...
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Posted on 26 October 2011.
29th October. Two archive films (incl. SONGS OF PROTEST) in the morning for our tribute event to the late great, Cy Grant, introduced by Arthur Torrington of the Windrush Society. In the afternoon we have an introduced and rare screening (formerly 'banned' by the distributors) of Spike Lee's WW2 film, Miracle at St. Anna. Audiences can ...
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Posted on 26 October 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 26 October 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 21 October 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 24 September 2011.
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 ...
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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 20 September 2011.
 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 ...
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Posted on 16 September 2011.
Italian Vogue apologizes for Slavery trend piece. Digs hole deeper: Periodically, fashion has its Zoolander moments—those idiotic decisions by arbiters of the industry that trivialize real human suffering for the sake of controversy. In the 2001 parody movie there was the homeless-inspired Derelicte clothing line. In real life, there was the Duncan Quinn ad with the woman ...
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Posted on 06 August 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 27 July 2011.
When searching the Records for The evidence of Early Black settlers in Britain. Â Evidence is to be found everywhere. It just needs searching out. Â 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 ...
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Posted on 05 July 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 04 July 2011.
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: ...
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Posted on 27 June 2011.
Recently An Afro-Caribbean teenager has won a ruling that St Gregory's Catholic Science College in Kenton, Harrow, north London was applying a cornrows ban in a way which amounted to "unjustified" indirect racial discrimination. The Schools decision to ban hairstyles it says have become associated with gang culture has resulted in the boy being excluded from school, in September ...
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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 20 June 2011.
The Guardians Education Correspondent, Jessica Shepherd wrote at the end of May: Call from leading black academics that an urgent culture change is needed at UK universities as figures reveal just 50 black British professors out of more than 14,000, and the number has barely changed in eight years, according to data from the Higher Education ...
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Posted on 15 June 2011.
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. ...
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Posted on 15 June 2011.
Attack the Block or Attack the Blacks? It’s number three in the UK box office, after Thor and Fast Furious. It features a majority Black British cast so how does this film portray black people and what impressions will the tens of thousands of mostly white viewers walk away with? The main characters in the movies are ...
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Joseph Knight
UK Black Podcast
