Posted on 24 January 2012. Tags: Blatter, Diane Abbott, Evra, F.A, Labour, Liverpool, Racism, Stephen Lawrence, Suarez, Terry, Tweet, chelsea, football

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. ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Europe, Football, Men, Politics, Racism, Women
Posted on 14 December 2011. Tags: D DAY, Forgotten war, Imperial War Museum, Malaya, VE day, asian soldiers, billy strachan, black airmen, black soldiers, bomber command, lancaster bombers, war commonwealth

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 ...
Posted in Africa, Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Caribbean, Colonialism, Education, Europe, Men, Military, Racism, War, Women
Posted on 13 December 2011. Tags: African Americans, Celtic, Giles Heron, Gill Scott Heron, Scotland, football

Giles Heron became the first Afro-Caribbean player to play first team football for Celtic.
Heron scored on his debut, a 2-1 win against Morton during the 1951-52 season and was quickly bestowed the nicknames "Black Flash" and "Black Arrow".
Giles Heron became the first Afro-Caribbean player to play first team football for Celtic.
Heron scored on his debut, ...
Posted in African American, Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Caribbean, Football, Men, Sports
Posted on 13 December 2011. Tags: Black Footballers in Britain, Black Mayors, Black Politicians, Doug Brown, Garth Crooks, Ghana, Lads n Dads, Roy Brown, Stoke City

Doug & Roy Brown's father, Eugene and his brother John came to England from the Ghana, West Africa, they were students. They decided to join the British Army when WW1 boke out. John was killed and Eugene badly injured but after the war he got married and had two sons. Eugene later died of his ...
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Posted on 12 December 2011. Tags: Hanley, Paul Robeson, Rhonda Valley, Silverdale Colliery, Stoke-on-Trent, The Proud Valley, actor, film, victoria Hall

Paul Robeson last visited North Staffordshire on October 31, 1958 when he appeared at the Victoria Hall, Hanley, as part of his final British tour.
Accompanied onstage by his longtime friend and associate Lawrence Brown, Robeson had a programme for the evening that was, as usual, extremely varied.
Over the years he had extended his repertoire to ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Entertainment, Men, Movies, Politics
Posted on 11 December 2011. Tags: Christopher Alder, Hull, Humberside Police, Police, custody deaths, miscarriage of justice

Original Article - Guardian
Maya Wolfe-Robinson and Owen Bowcott
The Guardian, Tuesday 22 November 2011
The government will formally apologise through the European court of human rights (ECHR) to the family of Christopher Alder, a black ex-soldier who choked to death in handcuffs on the floor of a Hull police station 13 years ago.
The "unilateral declaration" made by the United Kingdom to the court is ...
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Posted on 26 October 2011. Tags: Black Film, Black History Month, Cy Grant, Miracle at St Anna, UK 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 25 October 2011. Tags: Clive Henry, Court of Appeal, High Court, Racial discrimination Case, ups

Clive Henry Accuses UPS Ltd of Racial Discrimination, Lawsuit Now Pending Before Court of Appeal in London & the European Human Rights Commission in Belgium.
Clive Henry Vs UPS Ltd - Race Discrimination Case
I worked at UPS Ltd for 11 years, with 100% attendance for seven years. I had NEVER received any disciplinary action before.
In January 2008 I was asked by Manager A to supervise ...
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Posted on 24 October 2011.

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/dwightjohnson.html
You don't really think of Vietnam as being a tank warfare kind of affair. Sure, there were plenty of intense, groin-crushing battles fought during the vicious multi-year slugfest through the jungles of Southeast Asia, but most of these showdowns were the ambush / search-and-destroy sort of events, with infantrymen slogging through armpit-deep mud, fighting off ...
Posted in African American, Men, Military, War
Posted on 21 October 2011. Tags: Premier League, Racism, Rooney Rule, Soccer Coaches, football

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 03 October 2011. Tags: African American, Black British, Black History, Cuffe, Native american, Sierra Leone, Whalers

(NEW BEDFORD, Mass.) — It took nearly two hundred years but New Bedford now has a lasting tribute to Captain Paul Cuffe in the form of a park, dedicated today in his honor at the southern foot of historic Johnny Cake Hill.
Paul Cuffe (1759-1817) was the free-born son of an African father and a Native ...
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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 ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Caribbean, Community, Europe, Men, War
Posted on 16 September 2011.

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 a big program.
Stay ...
Posted in Black Britain, Business, Community, Environment, Law and Order, Men, Women
Posted on 15 September 2011. Tags: Africans, Libya, Libyans, Tawergha, War

Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr., reacting to reports in The Wall Street Journal has called for an investigation by the International Criminal Court into the reported killings of Black Libyans in the city of Tawergha.
Rep. Jackson also tells The Black Star News he will ask that U.S. assistance for reconstruction and transition to democracy in Libya be conditional. The Wall Street ...
Posted in Africa, Black History, Men, Middle East, Politics, Racism, Women
Posted on 12 September 2011. Tags: Black Athletes, Black Canadians, Canada, Harry Jerome, Henry Jerome, Olympics

Henry "Harry" Winston Jerome, OC (September 30, 1940 – December 7, 1982) was a Canadian track and field runner. He was the Grandson of John Howard, a Railway Porter who represented Canada in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he moved to North Vancouver at age 12. In 1970 he was made an ...
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Posted on 09 September 2011. Tags: African American Actors, Black British, Marxist, Negro spirituals, Robeson, Rutgers

Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American concert singer (bass-baritone), recording artist, athlete and actor who became noted for his political radicalism and activism in the Civil Rights Movement.
Robeson was the first major concert star to popularize the performance of Negro Spirituals.
He was the first Black actor of the ...
Posted in African American, Black History, Black History Month, Entertainment, Men, Movies, Politics, Racism
Posted on 27 July 2011. Tags: African American, Black Hair, Hair, Juliette Samuel, NAHA, biracial, butters, hair oil, natural hair care

Black Hair Care – Caring for Biracial Hair
By Juliette Samuel
Biracial Hair Care Tips
Every day, our world gets smaller. Not in the sense that the Earth is shrinking in size, but in terms of cultural and racial borders. Because we are able to travel more, we are exposed to many other cultures…and the opportunity to fall ...
Posted in Beauty & Fashion, Black Britain, Caribbean, Community, Education, Health, Lifestyle, Men, Women
Posted on 27 July 2011. Tags: Aquitted, Courts, Covent Garden, Jeffery Morat, Murat, Murder, Old Bailey, William Bosham, black constable, negro, thomas Latham

When searching the Records for The evidence of Early Black settlers in Britain. Evidence is to be found everywhere. It just needs searching out. 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 ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Education, Europe, Law and Order, Men
Posted on 04 July 2011. Tags: Black Doctors, Black Nurses, Black People in Health Care, Doctor, Hospitals, Nurse

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: ...
Posted in African American, Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Caribbean, Community, Education, Europe, Health, Men, Military, Racism, Science, Students, The Americas, War, Women
Posted on 27 June 2011. Tags: Black Hair, Hair styles in school, School admissions, St Gregory's Catholic Science College, black hairstyles for men, cornrows, court case, school uniform policy

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 ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Caribbean, Community, Education, Europe, Law and Order, Men, News, Politics, Racism, Students
Posted on 24 June 2011. Tags: Colonialism, Julius Silver, Politics, Robert J.C. Young, Rumina Sethi, postcolonialism, third world

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 ...
Posted in Africa, Books, Caribbean, Colonialism, Community, Education, Europe, Men, Military, Politics, Racism, Students, The Americas, Women
Posted on 21 June 2011. Tags: Angela Davis, Jailhouse lawyers, Mumia Abu Jamal, Prisoners

From death row in Pennsylvania, launch of a new book in the UK
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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 20 June 2011. Tags: Academics, Black Professors, Brunell, Goulbourne, Leeds University, London, London Metropolitan, Nottingham, Osler, Racism, Universities

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 ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Caribbean, Education, Europe, Job Vacancies, Men, News, Racism, Women
Posted on 31 May 2011. Tags: African American, Alaska, Icebreaker, Irish American, Michael Augustine Healy, Siberian Reindeer, USRC Bear, mixed race

Michael Healy -- Cabin-Boy who sailed on the American East Indian Clipper Jumna in England in 1854. He quickly became an expert Seaman, and rose to the Rank of Officer on Merchant vessels.
He became the first African-American to Command a ship of the United States Government.
Michael Augustine Healy (September 22, 1839 – August 30, 1904), ...
Posted in African American, Black History, Education, Men, Military, Racism, Slavery, The Americas
Posted on 24 May 2011. Tags: Caribbean, Jamma, Music, Steelbands, Steelpan, Trinidad, calypso, children, culture, jamani stewart, reggae, soloist, steeldrums, tobago

The Steel pan is a beautiful creation originated in Trinidad & Tobago in the late 19.30's and is the only orchestral family of acoustic musical instruments to be invented in the 20th century. With instruments ranging from low bass to high sopranos, all made out of the same raw material (oil drums) makes this invention ...
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