Actor Wil Johnson joins forces with transplant patients in new TV Campaign to encourage more Black donors Established actor, Wil Johnson has joined forces with NHS Blood and Transplant to lend further support to a new campaign designed to increase the number of people from BME communities on the NHS Organ Donor Register. The actor features alongside ...

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 ...

Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE MBE (born 19 April 1970) is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She set British records in numerous events and still holds the records over the ...

Shaving can be a great experience, who doesn't like a clean face, even bikini line, or perfect tape up? However, for many individuals, specifically those of African American and African-Caribbean descent, shaving is a dreaded experience because it often leads to the development of razor bumps. Razor bumps come in a variety of forms, from ...

In the Early 1980's the tensions of inner City Living and intense policing collided. Rioting erupted in inner city London. This film shows some of the events of the 1981 Brixton riots. Were you there? Do you know anyone who was there who participated in the disturbances? Related Links: The Met The Scarman ...

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 ...

Even though it is the least integrated with the global economy, Africa may be the worst hit region by the global economic crisis. Each of the four channels through which the crisis is affecting Africa has a particularly nefarious impact. Read full article>>

Registration closes 18 May 2009 - Book now to avoid disappointment! The Unit for the Social Study of Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell (TASC Unit) at De Montfort University, Leicester is pleased to present this exclusive one-day conference. The conference examines Sickle Cell Disorders, healthcare neglect in prisons, racism in the criminal justice system and the introduction of ...

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 ...

MediaTakeOut,com just learned that police in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. are concerned that there may be a serial killer who is targeting Black mothers and their teenage daughters. And the killer appears to be preying on women in Prince Georges County, Maryland - the county with the highest concentration of affluent African Americans in ...