Posted on 23 August 2010. Tags: Arabs, Blacks in Port Cities, Lascars, Liverpool, seamen, South Shields, Yemeni

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 First ...
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Posted on 17 August 2010. Tags: Adelaide Hall, Black British History, Black Britons, Black Londoners, black soldiers, Blitz, Britains Black Community, Dr Harold Moody, E.I Ekpenyon, Elizabeth Welch, Esther Bruce, Ken (Snake Hips) Johnson, Learie Constantine, Mother Country, Stephen Bourne, The Home Front, Una Marson, WW11, WW2

Black British History went through something of a coming out party in the late 1990's and early naughties. Real interest arose in the contributions of Black people in Britain and The Internet brought forth a whole plethora of sites and snippets of information all with the aim of finally setting the history books straight.
However, ...
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Posted on 29 July 2010. Tags: blamadur, Blamenn, Blokkumaddur, Blue Men, Fjords, Iceland, Norse, Old Norse, svertingi

"Blamenn!" Palli, our Iceland Review photographer, shouts. "You call them Blamenn!" Of course, Palli is a leg-puller from way back, so I take this with a grain of salt. Although it's something I desperately want answered. What are black people called in Iceland?
Palli's answer of "blamenn" (blue men), however dubious, is historically how the ancient ...
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Posted on 25 July 2010. Tags: airmen, Planes, Tuskeegee, War, WW2

Tuskeegee Airman, originally uploaded by RickRaven.
Fantastic photo of one of the Tuskeegee Airmen
Posted in African American, Black History, Education, History, Men, Military, Racism, The Americas, War
Posted on 25 July 2010. Tags: Black People, Canada, miscegenation, mixed race, race mixing, United States

Couple Were Deported - S.O. 5 Apr. 1913 p8, originally uploaded by snap-happy1.
A Mixed Race Couple were Deported to the United States from Canada, in part of anti-Miscegenation laws. 1913
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Posted on 08 July 2010. Tags: armies, black soldiers, photos, Soldiers, War

Throughout History the role of the black soldier has been underplayed in Western Armies. Black people have fought in all the Major European Armies including those of Poland and Germany.
African American troops fought in Both world Wars and subsequent conflicts. African colonial troops fought in the First World War in Europe.
Look through the images ...
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Posted on 26 May 2010. Tags: Black, Black British History, England, Inter racial marriage, London, Mixed Marriage 1770, Southwark, white

The Annual Register Marriage Record
Record of a Michael Thomas(Black) and? Ann Brandley (White) being married in Southwark on November 5th, 1770.
This Morning Michael Thomas, a black, and Ann Brandley, a white, were married at St. Olave's, Southwark; but while the ceremony was performing a press-gang interrupted the minister ...
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Posted on 16 May 2010. Tags: Black Footballers, Celtic, football, Great goalscorers, Jamaica, Liverpoof FC, Newcastle United, Racism in football, Soccer, Watford FC

John Barnes was an exciting Black footballer playing for Liverpool in the 1980's and 90's.
Three years after his spectacular solo goal for England against Brazil at Rio's Maracana Stadium the exciting Jamaican-born winger was signed from Watford for 900,000 pounds by Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish in 1987 as part of his team reshaping following the ...
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Posted on 04 May 2010. Tags: mixed race, mixed-race children, Racism, white mothers

ScienceDaily (Apr. 28, 2010) ? Professor Ravinder Barn and Dr Vicki Harman from the Centre for Criminology and Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London are carrying out research into white mothers of mixed-race children. It is part of a wider study of mixed-race children and young people that has spanned more than two decades.
Parenting ...
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Posted on 07 April 2010. Tags: Boxing, Coventry, Detroit, England boxing team, Errol Christie, European champion, Gianluca Vialli, Kronk, Mark Kaylor, National Front, NF, NF bootboys, NO PLACE TO HIDE, Original Rude Boy, skinheads, Standard Triumph, Tony McMahon

NO PLACE TO HIDE How I Put The Black In The Union Jack
Errol Christie with Tony McMahon
Seeing my future crumble before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. Before my eyes, I saw an eight year old kid at the Standard Triumph putting on gloves for the first time. A teenage schoolboy champion effortlessly destroying ...
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Posted on 23 February 2010. Tags: Civil rights Movement, Fisk University, Howard University, Mary B Talbert, NAACP, Niagra Movement, Ossie Davis, The Souls of black folks, W.E dubois, William Edward Burghardt DuBois

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born on (February 23, 1868? he was an American civil rights activist,Pan-Africanist,sociologist,historian,author, and editor.
He grew up in Great Barrington, a predominately Anglo American town. His Mother, Mary Silvina Burghardt's family was part of the very small free black population of Great Barrington, having long owned land in the state. ...
Posted in African American, Arts, Black Writing, Books, Caribbean, Education, History, Politics, Racism, Slavery, The Americas
Posted on 10 January 2010. Tags: Belgium, Congo, E.D. Morel, Lord, LRA, militias, MONUC, Southern Sudan, the Central African Republic, the Great Congo Demonstration, The Lord David Alton, Uganda, Vava Tampa

by the Right Hon. The Lord David Alton of Liverpool
November 19th marked the Centenary Anniversary of the Great Congo Demonstration when , one hundred year ago, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Christian leaders, along with many Peers and fifty Members of Parliament assembled at the Royal Albert Hall to protest against the abuses by ...
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