Posted on 11 March 2010. Tags: 50 Cent, African Media, African Role Models, Black Media, Black Role Models, Ligali, Nyansapo, Snoop dogg, podcasts, radio

Yesterday I received an email from the ligali website. Ligali describes itself as a Pan Africanist human rights Organisation. Ligali Often send me their updates and newsletters, which depending on whether I have a moment to myself I read and digest or sadly leave them to quickly disappear in the the tides of messages in ...
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Posted on 10 March 2010. Tags: Black Media, Black TV, Black radio, black websites, collaboration, podcasts

BlackPresence website is now 12 years old and many changes have befallen the internet since its inception. We have gone from a time when there was hardly any black presence on the Internet to having a massive amount of black owned, black run websites, all singing their own songs.
It has long occurred to me that ...
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Posted on 17 October 2009. Tags: Black Media, Black Newspapers, The Voice, Val McCalla, jamaican

From a small, east London council flat in 1982, Val McCalla started the weekly newspaper, the Voice, which went on become the mouthpiece of Britain's black community and made him a multi-millionaire.
Launched at the Notting Hill Carnival that August, it grew into the most popular and important black newspaper in this country.
From initial sales of ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Business, Caribbean, Community, Education, Entertainment, Media, Men