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/2009/04/jamaican-easter-traditions-steeped-in-culture-and-history/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/jamaican-easter-traditions-steeped-in-culture-and-history/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:26:29 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=748 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/jamaican-easter-traditions-steeped-in-culture-and-history/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/meet-melody-barnes/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/meet-melody-barnes/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:20:02 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=644 httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QCSeSEE1g]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/meet-melody-barnes/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/pioneering-african-american-cartoonists/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/pioneering-african-american-cartoonists/#comments Sat, 07 Mar 2009 09:28:45 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=238 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’ [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/pioneering-african-american-cartoonists/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-canadians-an-overview/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-canadians-an-overview/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:39:28 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=169 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-canadians-an-overview/feed/ 5 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-african-mission-liverpool-england-1940s/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-african-mission-liverpool-england-1940s/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:54:26 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=133 Brian Lawrenson writes about his time growing up as a "Brown Baby" in a postwar Liverpool orphanage.]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-african-mission-liverpool-england-1940s/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-soldiers-in-the-british-army-john-ellis/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-soldiers-in-the-british-army-john-ellis/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:53:29 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=115 It would of course be easy to leave such men as ]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-soldiers-in-the-british-army-john-ellis/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/parallel-lives-of-africans-and-african-americans-by-rudolf-ogoo-okonkwo/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/parallel-lives-of-africans-and-african-americans-by-rudolf-ogoo-okonkwo/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:43:42 +0000 Iesha http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=108 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. ]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/parallel-lives-of-africans-and-african-americans-by-rudolf-ogoo-okonkwo/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-rwandan-genocide-why-it-happened/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-rwandan-genocide-why-it-happened/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:23:15 +0000 Iesha http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=101 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....]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-rwandan-genocide-why-it-happened/feed/ 3 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/hitlers-forgotten-holocaust-victims/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/hitlers-forgotten-holocaust-victims/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:45:12 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=76 Like many West European nations, Germany established colonies in Africa in the late 1800s in what later became Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, and Tanzania.]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/hitlers-forgotten-holocaust-victims/feed/ 5 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/02/poetry/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/02/poetry/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:10:37 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=31 African American poetry developed in a straight, if sometimes discontinuous, line from Phillis Wheatley.....]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/02/poetry/feed/ 0