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/2011/12/wallace-fard-muhammad/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/12/wallace-fard-muhammad/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:49:22 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=6955 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/12/wallace-fard-muhammad/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/malcolm-x/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/malcolm-x/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:51:34 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=6717 Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an African American Muslim Minister and Human Rights Activist. To his admirers he was a courageous advocate for the Rights of African Americans, a man who indicted White America in the harshest terms for its [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/malcolm-x/feed/ 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/idi-amin-vs-israel/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/idi-amin-vs-israel/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:30:34 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3830 Revealed: how Israel helped Amin to take power By Richard Dowden Sunday, 17 August 2003 When Radio Uganda announced at dawn on 25 January 1971 that Idi Amin was Uganda’s new ruler, many people suspected that Britain had a hand in the coup. However, Foreign Office papers released last year point to a different conspirator: [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/idi-amin-vs-israel/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/somalia/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/somalia/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:30:41 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3853 A plausible etymology proposes that the term Somali is derived from the Arabic for “Wealthy” (dhawamaal), referring to Somali riches in Livestock. The history of Islam in the Horn of Africa is as old as the religion itself. The early persecuted Muslims fled to the Axumite port city of Zeila in present-day Somalia to seek [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/somalia/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/tawergha-black-cit-reported-depopulated/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/tawergha-black-cit-reported-depopulated/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 11:07:48 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=4141 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/tawergha-black-cit-reported-depopulated/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/f1-rewarding-bahrain-for-its-violations-of-human-rights/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/f1-rewarding-bahrain-for-its-violations-of-human-rights/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:04:10 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3507 - This is basically a racist decision. They’re in essence saying that it’s OK if the people being abused are non-White. If the Government of Great Britain were to do to its citizens what the Government of Bahrain did to theirs, I doubt very much the World would stand by and award Britain a World [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/f1-rewarding-bahrain-for-its-violations-of-human-rights/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/black-britons-race-riots-in-south-shields-and-liverpool/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/black-britons-race-riots-in-south-shields-and-liverpool/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:28:21 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2344 Black Britons – Race Riots in South Shields The first race riots to take place in Britain were in South Shields (Tyneside). A number of Arab and Somali seamen had settled there in the 1860′s, and theses populations were added to by West African and West Indian Seamen who settled in North shields before the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/black-britons-race-riots-in-south-shields-and-liverpool/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/st-george-george-of-lydda/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/st-george-george-of-lydda/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:30:59 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1324 George Lydda M 15th George of Lydda, was born in Turkey of “Black” Palestinian parentage, he is the “Patron Saint of England. One of the most famous of Christian figures But little is known of the man himself. The earliest possible source, Eusebius of Caesarea, writing around 322 AD, tells of? “A ‘man of the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/st-george-george-of-lydda/feed/ 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/maersk-alabama-captain-rescued-by-rear-adm-michelle-howards-ship/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/maersk-alabama-captain-rescued-by-rear-adm-michelle-howards-ship/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:57:57 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=855 MAERSK-ALABAMA CAPTAIN RESCUED BY REAR ADM. MICHELLE HOWARD’S SHIP Whoa! Nope, this is one you SURE DIDN’T HEAR on the news. The ship that rescued the Maersk-Alabama’s captain was skippered by a BLACK FEMALE REAR ADMIRAL? Get OUT of here! If you’re like me, you briefly saw her in some news clips, and (like me) [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/maersk-alabama-captain-rescued-by-rear-adm-michelle-howards-ship/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/cleopatras-mother-was-african/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/cleopatras-mother-was-african/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:10:21 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=489 Cleopatra, the last Egyptian Pharaoh, renowned for her beauty, was part African, says a BBC team which believes it has found her sister’s tomb. Queen Cleopatra was a descendant of Ptolemy, the Macedonian general who ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great. But remains of the queen’s sister Princess Arsinoe, found in Ephesus, Turkey, indicate that [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/cleopatras-mother-was-african/feed/ 13 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/ethiopians-discover-what-israelis-really-think/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/ethiopians-discover-what-israelis-really-think/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:11:52 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=193 Israel refuses to let them give blood Israel got caught throwing away Ethiopian blood from the blood banks. A similar disclosure a decade ago sparked protests and widespread outrage in a community that has long complained of racial discrimination. “We are healthy people, like everyone else,” said 24-year-old Galit Maarat,  “It’s unjust, a terrible affront.”  [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/ethiopians-discover-what-israelis-really-think/feed/ 0