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Posted on 06 April 2009. Tags: American, Easter, English, Food, History, Jamaica, jamaican, Religion, stories, Tradition

KINGSTON, Jamaica – While American families hide colored eggs and eat chocolate bunnies, Jamaica’s tradition of eating Easter bun and cheese, fortune telling and Carnival are the ways this island celebrates this holiday period.
COMMON EASTER TRADITIONS
Easter egg predictions
One of Jamaica's long established practices is the setting of an egg to predict one's future. It is ...
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Posted on 30 March 2009. Tags: Administration, American, California, cartoons, Elections, History, News, Obama, race, Racing, schools, slaves, University, writing

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 circulating ...
Posted in African, African American, History, Politics, Slavery, The Americas
Posted on 30 March 2009. Tags: 12 Things The Negro Must Do, African, American, Americas, Blacks, Business, children, Community, Education, Investment, Nannie Helen Burroughs., negro, race, schools, segregation, self improvement, Washington, Women

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 and businesswoman who ...
Posted in African American, Community, History, Men, Politics, Racism, Slavery, The Americas, Women
Posted on 29 March 2009. Tags: American, Melody Barnes, Obama, Politics

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QCSeSEE1g
Posted in African American, Community, History, Politics, The Americas, Women
Posted on 07 March 2009. Tags: African, African American, Africans, America, American, Americas, Art, Artists, Arts, Black, Blacks, coons, Drawing, History, segregation, Sport, stories

During the segregated years of the 1900 through 1960s America, the Black Press offered comic strips that featured African American heroes & heroines in a wide variety of life situations. These characters were not confined to gritty 'inner-city' stories, poor 'ghetto' life or as one dimensional comic relief as today .
Just as the 'mainstream' carried ...
Posted in African American, Arts, Books, History
Posted on 06 March 2009. Tags: Africa, African, Africans, America, American, Americas, Black, Black History, Blacks, Books, Britain, British, Canada, Caribbean, Caribbeans, children, Community, Doctors, Egypt, Europe, Events, Exodusters, farming, football, France, Guyana, Halifax, Health, History, Illegal, Kansas, kids, Knights, Military, Music, negro, News, North America, notice, Notices, Parties, Personalities, Police, president, Prison, race, Racing, Racism, Racist, schools, segregation, slaves, society, stories, street, Trade, violence, War, Washington, Women

Black Canadians in Canada:
Total Population of Canada: 30+,000,000
Number of Black People living in Canada: 670,000
Percentage of Canadian Population that's Black: 2%
Percentage of the Black Canadian Population living in:
- Toronto - 47%
- Montreal - 20%
- Ottawa - 6%
- Vancouver - 3%
- Halifax - 2%
Where Black Canadians ...
Posted in History, Politics, The Americas
Posted on 03 March 2009. Tags: American, Black British, Black History, children, Community, England, Liverpool, Orphans, Women


Brian Lawrenson writes about his time growing up as a “Brown Baby” in a postwar Liverpool orphanage.
Posted in Black Britain, Community, Europe, History
Posted on 02 March 2009. Tags: Africa, America, American, Americas, Antigua, Army, Black, Black British, Blacks, Britain, British, Canada, Death, equality, France, Hair, Health, Jamaica, Liverpool, London, Military, Moors, Navy, negro, News, Nurse, senegal, slaves, Soldiers, surgeon, Trade, Troops, Trumpet, Wales, War, Williams


It would of course be easy to leave such men as
Posted in African, African American, Black Britain, Caribbean, Europe, History, War
Posted on 02 March 2009. Tags: Africa, African, African American, Africans, America, American, Americas, Black, Blacks, Business, Community, Discrimination, ethnicity, Food, History, kids, News, nigerian, Nurse, poverty, privacy, schools, society, violence, War, Williams


A look at the position of the average African and average African-American revealed some surprising parallels. For the purpose of simplifying this piece, I will generalize even when I know there are exceptions. I also know Alexander Dumas warned that all generalizations are dangerous, so don’t snap as you read. Treat this as an honest start of an authentic dialogue which all Africans in the Diaspora must have.
Posted in African, African American
Posted on 02 March 2009. Tags: Africa, African, Africans, American, Army, beauty, Black, Blacks, Britain, British, Census, Congo, Crime, Economics, Education, Ethiopians, ethnicity, Events, exploitation, France, Genocide, Hair, History, Holocaust, Media, mixed, Murder, News, Personalities, Politics, president, race, Racing, Racism, Racist, revellers, schools, slaves, Spurs, Uganda, violence, War


Rwandan Genocide: Why it happened and Why it shouldn’t have happen The year 2004 marked the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide in which 1,000,000 Rwandans were slaughtered over the course of 100 days, although some officials reported a span of 8 weeks….
Posted in African, History, War
Posted on 01 March 2009. Tags: Africa, African, Africans, Afro German, allegations, America, American, Americas, Black, Blacks, Books, children, Entertainment, entertainments, Europe, film, Films, Food, France, Germany, History, Holocaust, Israel, justice, Murder, Parties, Prison, race, Racing, Soldiers, stories, Trade, University, War, Women


Like many West European nations, Germany established colonies in Africa in the late 1800s in what later became Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, and Tanzania.
Posted in African, Black Blog Posts, Black Britain, Community, Education, Entertainment, Europe, Food, History, Job Vacancies, Men, Military, Racism, The Americas, War, Women
Posted on 28 February 2009. Tags: African, African American, Africans, American, Arts, History, Poet, Poetry


African American poetry developed in a straight, if sometimes discontinuous, line from Phillis Wheatley…..
Posted in African American, Arts, Poetry
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