Posted on 15 December 2011.
SI Leeds Literary Prize is a new award for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women resident in the UK aged 18 years and over. The prize has been created and is being run by Soroptimist International of Leeds, in partnership with two well established and highly regarded literary organisations, the Ilkley Literature Festival and independent publishers Peepal Tree Press. ...
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Posted on 11 November 2010.
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Posted on 04 October 2010.
Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian. Eric Williams was a descendant from the de Boissiere family which made its fortune trading African slaves illegally after ...
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Posted on 18 August 2010.
Dear All, I am pleased to inform you that we now have a Summer Promotion on "The Sound of Running Water" with a free delivery service. Information on "The Sound of Running Water" " The Sound of Running Water " is a Pocket-sized gift book of Proverbs and Quotations aimed to inspire our minds into great heights of ...
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Posted on 16 February 2010.
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 Indian ...
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Posted on 08 January 2010.
Ben Okri O.B.E. is a Booker Prize winning Author and Poet. Okri was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Famished Road (1991). Set in a Nigerian village <p>Ben Okri was Born in Nigeria in 1959. He is a journalist and writer by trade. He traveled to Britain when he was just four years ...
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Posted on 06 January 2010.
Ignatius Sancho was the first African prose writer whose work was published in England. Ignatius Sancho was the first African prose writer whose work was published in England. A former slave and renowned shopkeeper, Sancho came to England at the age of two, it was 1731. The Duke of Montague made him presents of books to ...
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Posted on 17 March 2009.
By J. Freedom du Lac Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, March 17, 2009; Page C01 "I don't know how to stay in one genre," Estelle Fanta Swaray declared during her Sunday night concert at the 9:30 club. She was hardly apologizing, though -- more like sharing her mission statement. The nascent British star has shortened her stage name ...
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Posted on 15 March 2009.
Daniella Maison is the edgy, unswerving, soulful writer been best known for her series of poetry publications since her astonishing poetical debut in 2000. A young Masters graduate, Maison currently works as a freelance writer and part time music promoter, and is set to make an impact within the local and wider community, she comments: ‘James ...
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Posted on 13 March 2009.
Lock up Im nineteen years of age. Im standing in the dock. There a Judge. A right snooty f***. Hes staring at me. Got a twinkle in his eye. And for all I know, hes as bent as a nine Bob note, and wearing ladies knickers and push-up bra in the bargain. Or hes one of the ...
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Posted on 12 March 2009.
I too have a dream! I usta hang out all day with my cousin, fantasizing about the day we were gonna be supa rich and famous. My cousin had a studio in the basement of his yard over on the West side of town; Powis Square. I rented a tiny room on the North side, ...
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Posted on 06 March 2009.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nktBsI0PYPs This link was shared with me by a Friend on Facebook. Â I share it with you all now.
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Posted on 28 February 2009.
The Metropolitan Chicago Breast Cancer Task Force delivered its first report to the community, one year after releasing a major report that outlined more than 30 recommendations for action.
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Posted on 28 February 2009.
MASSAPEQUA, N.Y., Oct 21, 2008 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- African American History Month annually celebrates important events and honorable people of African heritage during the month of February. Uniquely, its celebration, which began in 1926 as Negro/Black History Week and grew to become African American History Month in recent decades, underscores our nation's multiethnic and multicultural ...
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Posted on 28 February 2009.
African American poetry developed in a straight, if sometimes discontinuous, line from Phillis Wheatley…..
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Joseph Knight
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