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/2010/02/calling-all-artists/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/calling-all-artists/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:56:38 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1746 Call for submission open to poets, writers, journalists, bloggers and graphic artists from all backgrounds and origins. We invite you to write in solidarity for Haiti. You can send us poems, song lyrics, short stories, opinion pieces, drawings, paintings or photographs. The work must be about or inspired by Haiti, its people and its culture. [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/02/calling-all-artists/feed/ 2 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/show-honours-african-american-artists/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/show-honours-african-american-artists/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:40:57 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=567 A powerful collection of works by some of the leading African-American artists is on display at the Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County. The exhibit, called “Distinguish Visions, Timeless Traditions,” came about when Calvin Mims, art services coordinator for the council, discovered that a number of art collectors in town have works of some of the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/show-honours-african-american-artists/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