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/2012/02/john-ware/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2012/02/john-ware/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:08:42 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=6986 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ware_(cowboy) John Ware (c. 1845 – 12 September 1905) was an African-American and later Black Canadian cowboy, best remembered for his ability to ride and train horses and for bringing the first cattle to southern Alberta in 1882, helping to create that province’s important ranching industry. Ware was born into Slavery in South Carolina. After [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2012/02/john-ware/feed/ 0 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/black-british-history-education-event-8112011/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/black-british-history-education-event-8112011/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:01:09 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=6774 Dear Friends, I hope you will be interested in an event that is taking place in two weeks time, on Tuesday 8th November at the Institute of Education in the University of London. The general picture of Black British history in our schools and universities is still very bleak. There are only two universities where [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/black-british-history-education-event-8112011/feed/ 3 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/peter-tosh-the-stepping-razor/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/peter-tosh-the-stepping-razor/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 16:02:34 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=6715 Peter Tosh, born Winston Hubert McIntosh (19 October 1944 – 11 September 1987), was a Jamaican reggae musician who was a core member of the band The Wailers (1963–1974), and who afterward had a successful solo career as well as being a promoter of Rastafari. Genres: Reggae, ska, rocksteady, R&B Peter Tosh (also known as [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/peter-tosh-the-stepping-razor/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/job-vacancy-the-national-portrait-gallery-pt/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/job-vacancy-the-national-portrait-gallery-pt/#comments Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:54:01 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=6703 The National Portrait Gallery houses a unique collection of all forms of portraiture of the people who have made or who are currently contributing to British history and culture. With more than 1.8 million visitors each year, the Gallery is one of the country’s most important and popular galleries. Faith, Slavery and Identity Programme Internship [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/job-vacancy-the-national-portrait-gallery-pt/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/captain-paul-cuffe/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/captain-paul-cuffe/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:03:29 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=5694 (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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/10/captain-paul-cuffe/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/israel-and-south-africa/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/israel-and-south-africa/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:30:00 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3816 lsrael’s ties with South Africa seem to be especially disturbing to many who follow Israel’s international activities. Perhaps it is natural that Israel has been castigated more harshly for its arms sales to South Africa than for its sales to other countries: first, because there has been for a decade an arms embargo against South [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/israel-and-south-africa/feed/ 2 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/alexandre-dumas/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/alexandre-dumas/#comments Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:30:37 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3873 Alexandre Dumas was the Grandson of a French Nobleman, and a Haitian slave. http://www.gradesaver.com/author/alexandre-dumas/ When a mulatto general from Napoleon’s army retired to the small northeastern town of Villers-Cotterets, France, little did the natives know that their town was now destined to become the birthplace of the great Alexandre Dumas. On July 24, 1802 the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/alexandre-dumas/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/vogue-apologizes-for-slavery-trend-piece/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/vogue-apologizes-for-slavery-trend-piece/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 10:02:39 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3875 Italian Vogue apologizes for Slavery trend piece. Digs hole deeper: Periodically, fashion has its Zoolander moments—those idiotic decisions by arbiters of the industry that trivialize real human suffering for the sake of controversy. In the 2001 parody movie there was the homeless-inspired Derelicte clothing line. In real life, there was the Duncan Quinn ad with [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/vogue-apologizes-for-slavery-trend-piece/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/credo-mutwa/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/credo-mutwa/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:31:02 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=4144 http://credomutwa.com/about/biography-07/ http://credomutwa.com/about/ Credo Mutwa: Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, born on 21 July 1921 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa is a Zulu Sangoma (Traditional Healer) and High Sanusi. He is well known and respected for his work in nature conservation, and as an author of ground breaking books on African mythology and spiritual beliefs. Some of his work [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/09/credo-mutwa/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/07/blacks-slavery-and-movies/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/07/blacks-slavery-and-movies/#comments Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:38:52 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3750 http://clutchmagonline.com/2011/06/is-hollywood-courting-slavery/ Is Hollywood Courting Slavery? Thursday Jun 16, 2011 – by Black Voices — Slave stories might become the new ‘Black’ in Hollywood. Today, the Shadow And Act film blog revealed that Paris-based Other Angle Pictures picked up a French slavery comedy for international distribution. ‘Case Départ’ is scheduled for a July 6 release in [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/07/blacks-slavery-and-movies/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/07/writing-slavery-after-beloved/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/07/writing-slavery-after-beloved/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:00:27 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3698 Call for Papers Writing Slavery after Beloved Literature, Historiography, Criticism International Symposium Université de Nantes – France March 16-17, 2012 Can Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) be considered as a watershed in the contemporary representations of slavery and the slave trade, not only in the literary field, but also in historiography and Cultural Studies? This Symposium will attempt to [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/07/writing-slavery-after-beloved/feed/ 2 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/07/why-no-black-members-of-royal-family/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/07/why-no-black-members-of-royal-family/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 23:03:55 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3569 http://hubpages.com/hub/bloodlines “Credo Mutwa, the Official Historian of the Zulu Nation, told me how so many Black African leaders that were placed in Power after the Colonial Masters gave the Continent ‘independence’, came from the Bloodlines of African Kings and Queens who claimed to descend from the same ‘Gods’ as their White counterparts.” -David Icke, “Tales [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/07/why-no-black-members-of-royal-family/feed/ 7 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/slavery-negroes-and-blacks/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/slavery-negroes-and-blacks/#comments Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:23:51 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3534   Some authorities argue that the very idea of Race should be abandoned. They say that there are no pure Races, that all so-called Races are the result of intermarriage between people of different stocks. There is only one Race, the Human Race. In the United States the division of the population into White and [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/slavery-negroes-and-blacks/feed/ 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/hey-man-who-cut-your-hair/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/hey-man-who-cut-your-hair/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:02:40 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3421 HAIR: Give me a head with hair, long beautiful hair Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen Give me down to there, hair, shoulder length or longer Here baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy Hair, flow it, show it Long as God can grow, my hair — Afro-Textured Hair: Afro-Textured Hair is a term used to refer [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/06/hey-man-who-cut-your-hair/feed/ 2 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/michael-augustine-healy/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/michael-augustine-healy/#comments Tue, 31 May 2011 16:58:10 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3416 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/michael-augustine-healy/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/black-belt-bible-belt/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/black-belt-bible-belt/#comments Sun, 29 May 2011 16:47:00 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3411 The Black Belt is a Region of the Southern United States. Although the term originally described the Prairies and dark soil of Central Alabama and Northeast Mississippi, it has long been used to describe a broad Agricultural Region in the American South characterized by a history of Plantation Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century, and a [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/black-belt-bible-belt/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/the-slave-trade-james-walvin/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/the-slave-trade-james-walvin/#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 20:11:00 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3328 When I was asked to review “The Slave Trade” By James Walvin, It was with some trepidation because I had read many books on the Slave Trade during my time as a student and expected some weighty and wordy tome. That would have to be waded through and then deciphered before I could even begin to think of writing [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/the-slave-trade-james-walvin/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/who-brought-the-slaves-to-america/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/who-brought-the-slaves-to-america/#comments Wed, 04 May 2011 16:44:52 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=3330 The story of the slaves in America begins with Christopher Columbus. His voyage to America was not financed by Queen Isabella, but by Luis de Santangelo, who advanced the sum of 17,000 ducats (about 5,000 pounds-today equal to 50,000 pounds) to finance the voyage, which began on August 3, 1492. Columbus was accompanied by five [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/who-brought-the-slaves-to-america/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/11/book-of-negroes/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/11/book-of-negroes/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:25:39 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2868 Aminata Diallo, an 11-year-old child, is taken from her village in West Africa and forced to walk for months to the sea in a coffle � a string of slaves. Eventually, she arrives in South Carolina where she begins a new life as a slave. Years later, she finds freedom, serving the British in the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/11/book-of-negroes/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/10/eric-eustace-williams/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/10/eric-eustace-williams/#comments Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:00:59 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2719 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 slave [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/10/eric-eustace-williams/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/c-l-r-james-writer/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/c-l-r-james-writer/#comments Sun, 26 Sep 2010 21:25:41 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2645 � CLR (Cyril Lionel RobertJames was a Marxist writer, political commentator, and Cricket lover. One of his most famous works is “The Black Jacobins”; a biography of “Tousaint Louverture” the Haitian Revoloutionary. Born in Trinidad, he attended the Queen’s Royal College on the island before becoming a cricket journalist and also writing fiction. In 1932, [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/c-l-r-james-writer/feed/ 3 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/paying-tribute-to-the-black-hair-conversation/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/paying-tribute-to-the-black-hair-conversation/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:07:31 +0000 msafropolitan http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2597 This is a Contributed Article by Minna Salami from http://www.msafropolitan.com/ I like the perspective that India.Arie and Akon have in ‘I am not my hair’.It’s not a new song, most of you have heard it, danced to it, chanted it, maybe even as a spiritual practice of sort! Jokes aside, a very powerful message often [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/paying-tribute-to-the-black-hair-conversation/feed/ 4 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/bernie-grant-mp/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/bernie-grant-mp/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:19:13 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2504     The Late Bernie Grant was Britain’s foremost black spokesman, a champion of social and racial justice, and a pioneer for diversity. Born in Guyana, and resident in Britain since 1963, Bernie Grant worked as a British Railways clerk,he was also National Union of Public Employees area officer, and as a partisan of the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/bernie-grant-mp/feed/ 2 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/ks3-britains-black-history-black-britons/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/ks3-britains-black-history-black-britons/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:48:09 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2432 There has been a Black Presence in the British Isles since Roman time. In more recent Centuries the black presence is well documented should you care to look for it. Teachers TV offers this Introductory video, which you can download from their site to start you in your investigations. Historian Tony Warner explains how the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/ks3-britains-black-history-black-britons/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/joseph-emidy-musician/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/joseph-emidy-musician/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:56:28 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2413 Joseph Emidy (also spelt Emedy or Emedee) had been second violin in the orchestra of the Lisbon opera house before being pressed into the Royal Navy in 1795. Born in West Africa in c.1775 JOSEPH ANTONIO EMIDY was enslaved as a child by Portuguese traders, taken to Brazil and subsequently Portugal where he became a [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/joseph-emidy-musician/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/tackling-the-national-debt-1771/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/tackling-the-national-debt-1771/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:53:05 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2354 Today Most Western countries are struggling to pay off their national debt and keep their houses in order, it seems though, that things have been the same many times before. The 1770′s were no different. People came up with unpopular and outlandish ideas to balance the books, just as they do today.  The article below [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/tackling-the-national-debt-1771/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/w-e-du-bois/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/w-e-du-bois/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:48:36 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1820 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/w-e-du-bois/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/ignatius-sancho/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/ignatius-sancho/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:50:11 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1456 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/ignatius-sancho/feed/ 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/joseph-knight/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/joseph-knight/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:53:31 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1397 Joseph Knight was  born in Africa, and taken as a slave to Jamaica.  He was sold to a Scottish landowner. He was taken to Scotland in 1769. Three years later a ruling in England (see Somersett’s Case) cast doubt on the legality of slavery under the common law. Assuming this applied to the rest of [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/01/joseph-knight/feed/ 2 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/sarah-forbes-bonetta/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/sarah-forbes-bonetta/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:08:48 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1353 Sarah Forbes was a Yoruba girl captured by the King of Dahomey in 1848 during a war in which her parents were killed. She was given as a present to Commander Forbes when he was visited Dahomey as an emissary of the British Government in 1850, and she subsequently took Forbes’ name as well as [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/sarah-forbes-bonetta/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/francis-barber/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/francis-barber/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:10:56 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1347 Francis Barber was a servant and companion to the writer Samuel Johnson.? Francis Barber was born in Jamaica around 1735. He came to Britain with a planter from the island. For one year he went to school in the small village of Barton nr Darlington in Yorkshire England. Then, as he got older he entered [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/francis-barber/feed/ 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/olaudah-equiano/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/olaudah-equiano/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:44:59 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1311 Olaudah Equiano, later to be known as (Gustavus Vassa) was born in what is today, Nigeria. Kidnapped from his African village at the age of eleven, and sold to a Virginia planter. He was later bought by a British naval Officer, Captain Pascal, as a present for his cousins in London. Equiano bought his freedom [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/olaudah-equiano/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/hispanics-of-african-ancestry-facts/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/hispanics-of-african-ancestry-facts/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:05:00 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1142 Examiner.com 1492-1493- A black navigator, Pedro Alonso Nino, travels with Christopher Columbus 1494- The first Africans arrive in Hispaniola (current day Haiti – Dominican Republic) with Christopher Columbus. They are free persons. 1501- The Spanish king allows the introduction of enslaved African into Spain 1511-The first enslaved Africans arrive in Hispaniola. 1513-Thirty African accompany Vasco [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/hispanics-of-african-ancestry-facts/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/julius-soubise/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/julius-soubise/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:52:56 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1051 Julius Soubise was unusual for a Black man living at his time. He led an extremely privileged lifestyle. He came to England from the West Indies, carried by Captain Stair Douglas of the Royal Navy. Catherine Hyde, the Duchess of Queensberry met Soubise and persuaded the Captain to part with him as she found the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/julius-soubise/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/ottobah-cuggano/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/ottobah-cuggano/#comments Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:05:28 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=999 Ottobah Cuggano was born around 1757 in Ghana, he was kidnapped as a slave at around thirteen. He came to England from Grenada in 1752 and was set free. He was advised to be baptised to avoid being resold into Slavery he took the name John Steuart.? He had close association with Oloudah Equiano and [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/ottobah-cuggano/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/black-british-reading-list/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/black-british-reading-list/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:57:24 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1018 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 Power-The History of Black people in Britain by Peter Fryer (Pluto Press 1984) Black England-Life before Emancipation by Gretchen Gerzina (John Murray,1995) Black Settlers in Britain [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/black-british-reading-list/feed/ 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/granville-sharpe/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/granville-sharpe/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:17:21 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1002 Sharpe was Possibly the Most Prominent of the Abolitionists and today, is certainly the most celebrated.? Sharp wrote numerous articles about slavery, religious history and now and then turned his hand to Social theory. He was born in Durham on? 10 November 1735 and was one of eight children.? He was sent to London to [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/granville-sharpe/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/william-davidson/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/william-davidson/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:45:30 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=996 William Davidson was a Co Conspiritor in a plan to blow up Parliament.]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/william-davidson/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/black-british-timeline/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/black-british-timeline/#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:16:42 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1021 Black British Timeline First era of large scale settlement of blacks in Britain. Spans period of Britain’s involvement in the tri-continental slave trade. Black slaves were in attendance as sea captains sauntered through the streets. In Tottenham, All Hallows Church baptismal register records “John Cyras, Captain Madden’s black” in March 1718, and at St Mary’s [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/black-british-timeline/feed/ 2 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/08/slavery-a-brief-overview/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/08/slavery-a-brief-overview/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:19:30 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1011 What is unique about slavery in the Atlantic world is both its magnitude (a very large number of slaves) and its modernity (slavery occurred in the very recent past).? When studying slavery in the Atlantic, then, we must account for why slavery should be so intimately connected with modernity and with the rise of the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/08/slavery-a-brief-overview/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/ayo-johnson-vincent-magombe-on-africa-today-part-1/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/ayo-johnson-vincent-magombe-on-africa-today-part-1/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 21:49:36 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=873 Western media depiction of African affairs — Part 1 Vincent Magombe Ebere Nzewuji Ben TV Vuyiswa Ngqobongwana.]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/ayo-johnson-vincent-magombe-on-africa-today-part-1/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/black-heroes-played-key-roles-in-the-texas-revolution/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/black-heroes-played-key-roles-in-the-texas-revolution/#comments Fri, 01 May 2009 08:52:14 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=832 By SARAH MOORE April, 19, 2009 A free African-American in 1836 rendered “valuable assistance” to the Texas Army during the Texas Revolution, according to a historical marker on his grave near Nacogdoches. Records show that William E. Goyens and many others -slaves and freemen and indentured servants – all were involved in the revolution 173 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/black-heroes-played-key-roles-in-the-texas-revolution/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/water-spirit-is-focus-of-national-museum-of-african-art-exhibition/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/water-spirit-is-focus-of-national-museum-of-african-art-exhibition/#comments Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:40:13 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=767 WASHINGTON, DC.- Beautiful and seductive, protective yet dangerous, the water deity Mami Wata (pidgin English for “Mother Water”) is the focus of a traveling exhibition that opened Wednesday, April 1, at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art. “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas” explores 500 years of the visual [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/water-spirit-is-focus-of-national-museum-of-african-art-exhibition/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/obama-race-reality-and-reconciliation/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/obama-race-reality-and-reconciliation/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:59:03 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=656 Two months into the administration of the first African-American president, Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press takes a look today at some of the “old racial stereotypes and Internet-fueled falsehoods” about President Barack Obama that have “flourished.” There was that New York Post cartoon portraying the president as a monkey, that California mayor resigning after [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/obama-race-reality-and-reconciliation/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/12-things-the-negro-must-do/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/12-things-the-negro-must-do/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:20:31 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=646 Found an Interesting post today called 12 Things The Negro Must Do – How Not To Become Scapegoats For Degenerate Black Community Behavior. It was written in around the turn of the last century by a woman called Nannie Helen Burroughs. Nannie Helen Burroughs – Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) was an educator, orator, religious leader [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/12-things-the-negro-must-do/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/memorial-plaque-dedcated-to-olaudah-equiano/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/memorial-plaque-dedcated-to-olaudah-equiano/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:47:40 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=418 About 300 people attended Monday night’s dedication in St, Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, of a memorial plaque to Olaudah Equiano (c.1745-97), the leading black abolitionist. Equiano had been baptised at the Church in February 1759. While people waited for the start of the service the Church organist played the ‘Trumpet Voluntary’ by John Stanley (1712-86) [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/memorial-plaque-dedcated-to-olaudah-equiano/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/african-sailors-in-britain/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/african-sailors-in-britain/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:07:00 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=316 Sailors from Africa, the West Indies and India have contributed to the life on board British ships during times of both peace and war. In times of conflict such as the Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) and of large-scale international trade, large numbers of men were required to fight and work on board Royal Navy ships and [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/african-sailors-in-britain/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-03-08/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-03-08/#comments Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:10:00 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-03-08/ http://www.ondamoney.com/ http://tinyurl.com/akyq45 # Hot Digital Radio http://tinyurl.com/bv8n3m # Black Women In Europe http://tinyurl.com/auccek # Bienvenue sur Grioo Pour Elle, le site dédié à la beauté des femmes noires et métissées http://tinyurl.com/bxu2vo # Marie-Raphaelle Designs http://tinyurl.com/btu8um # Danielle Belton’s The Black Snob – The Snob Blog http://blacksnob.com/ # Black Girl in London http://tinyurl.com/akfnn7 # AfroSpear http://tinyurl.com/add9lw [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/twitter-weekly-updates-for-2009-03-08/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2000/07/a-case-for-an-apology-and-reparations-for-africans-and-people-of-the-african-diaspora/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2000/07/a-case-for-an-apology-and-reparations-for-africans-and-people-of-the-african-diaspora/#comments Tue, 04 Jul 2000 16:38:51 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2578 Courtenay Francis Raymond Barnett Arawak House, Queen Street, P.O. Box 45, Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands Prime Minister Anthony Blair 10 Downing Street London SW 1 ENGLAND Dear Prime Minister Blair, Subject : A case for an apology and reparations for Africans and people of the African Diaspora I was born on the 4th [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2000/07/a-case-for-an-apology-and-reparations-for-africans-and-people-of-the-african-diaspora/feed/ 0