http://www.blackpresence.co.uk Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:25:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/walter-tull/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/walter-tull/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 21:09:46 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=466 Walter Tull was born in Folkestone on 28th April 1888. His father was a carpenter from Barbados who had moved to Folkestone and married a local woman. By the age of nine, Walter had lost both his parents, and when he was 10 he and his brother Edward were sent to a Methodist orphanage in [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/walter-tull/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/a-tale-of-a-forgotten-people-pt1/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/a-tale-of-a-forgotten-people-pt1/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:01:12 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=799 A Tale of a Forgotten People By Vava Tampa Outside public eyes in a remote corner of Africa and literally under the world’s radar screen, a country is sinking in a river of blood! Mothers crying! Fathers and sons trading hot metals! Neighbours, in alliance with local armed groups, seething through the thick dense forest to [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/a-tale-of-a-forgotten-people-pt1/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/facebook-petition-for-awarding-walter-tull-a-posthumous-military-cross/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/facebook-petition-for-awarding-walter-tull-a-posthumous-military-cross/#comments Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:30:55 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=476 An MP has begun campaigning for the Military Cross to be awarded posthumously to a former Northampton Town footballer killed in World War I. Walter Tull, the first black infantry officer in the British Army, was mentioned in dispatches for “gallantry and coolness” on the Italian Front. He died in action in 1918, but because his family [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/facebook-petition-for-awarding-walter-tull-a-posthumous-military-cross/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/john-blanke/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/john-blanke/#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:17:43 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=400 It appears that John Blanke, an African trumpeter, was a regular musician at the courts of both Henry VII and Henry VIII. Musicians’ payments were noted in the accounts of the Treasurer of the Chamber, who was responsible for paying the wages. There are several payments recorded to a ‘John Blanke, the blacke trumpeter‘. This trumpeter [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/john-blanke/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/ethiopians-discover-what-israelis-really-think/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/ethiopians-discover-what-israelis-really-think/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:11:52 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=193 Israel refuses to let them give blood Israel got caught throwing away Ethiopian blood from the blood banks. A similar disclosure a decade ago sparked protests and widespread outrage in a community that has long complained of racial discrimination. “We are healthy people, like everyone else,” said 24-year-old Galit Maarat,  “It’s unjust, a terrible affront.”  There are [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/ethiopians-discover-what-israelis-really-think/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-visual-representation-role-and-origin-of-black-soldiers-in-british-army-regiments-during-the-early-nineteenth-century/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-visual-representation-role-and-origin-of-black-soldiers-in-british-army-regiments-during-the-early-nineteenth-century/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:35:36 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=131 The Visual Representation, Role and Origin of Black Soldiers in British Army Regiments During the Early Nineteenth Century. Presented by Mr John D Ellis as part of the requirement of the MA Degree in Nineteenth Century Culture and Society. University of Nottingham, September 2000.]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-visual-representation-role-and-origin-of-black-soldiers-in-british-army-regiments-during-the-early-nineteenth-century/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 14:53:29 +0000 admin 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/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/ 2