****LEGAL FUTURES 2011 - BURSARIES AVAILABLE!!!*****   The LEGAL FUTURES 2011, the national law careers conference for ethnic minority students, will take place on Saturday 19 November at City University. Confirmed speakers include: Joshua Rozenberg Journalist, Broadcaster & Legal Commentator Urvasi Naidoo Solicitor and Chief Executive, International Federation of Netball Associations Tim Ward QC Barrister, Monckton Chambers Michelle Egbosimba Solicitor, Ashurst LLP Debra ...

I often think that my mixed heritage gives me a fantastic advantage of speaking about race issues.  A perspective that some times I feel neither Black or White people can truly understand. Looking in the mirror every day as a child and wondering where my brown features came from was a particularly hard thing to grapple with ...

  Some authorities argue that the very idea of Race should be abandoned. They say that there are no pure Races, that all so-called Races are the result of intermarriage between people of different stocks. There is only one Race, the Human Race. In the United States the division of the population into White and Black ...

The Annual Register Marriage Record Record of a Michael Thomas(Black) and? Ann Brandley (White) being married in Southwark on November 5th, 1770. This Morning Michael Thomas, a black, and Ann Brandley, a white, were married at St. Olave's, Southwark; but while the ceremony was performing a press-gang interrupted the minister ...

Above is a set of Newspaper articles from the 1780s.? Black Dance in London - Circa 1780s

Driving In Ghana I remember taking my last taxi to Tema before picking up my new second hand car that came off a ship from Germany. It felt good that i was finally avoiding bartering with the greedy taxi drivers who when seeing a foreigner would double their fare. You see the taxi driver is ...

Washington Post Staff Writer DeNeen L. Brown wrote an interesting? August 20, 2009 About how Americas Elite blacks are flocking to Martha's Vineyard to take their annual holidays. Over the 4 page web article. Brown highlights the fact that this isn't a new phenomenon, but a generational thing. Black families have been attracted to the ...

There was a Haitian man on the Titanic There was a Haitian man on the ship! His uncle was President of Haiti! Joseph Phillippe Lemercier Laroche was the only black man, a Haitian man, to perish in the Titanic; that's after he saved his wife and kids. Laroche was born in Cap Haitian, Haiti , on May 26, ...

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 ...

Vogue’s Beyonce Cover, Racist? Posted by: Annika Harris | Filed in: News & Culture 5:30PM, Tuesday March 17th 2009 Comments (13) Some folks have gotten their panties in a bunch over Beyonce’s cover for the “Shape Issue” of Vogue. Beyonce is one of only five black women to grace the cover of Vogue ...

MAERSK-ALABAMA CAPTAIN RESCUED BY REAR ADM. MICHELLE HOWARD'S SHIP Whoa! Nope, this is one you SURE DIDN'T HEAR on the news. The ship that rescued the Maersk-Alabama's captain was skippered by a BLACK FEMALE REAR ADMIRAL? Get OUT of here! If you're like me, you briefly saw her in some news clips, and (like me) probably figured she ...

Is death the start of the human journey or its end? Is mortality a transition from one sphere of our existence to another - the recurring cycle of life, death and rebirth? From Nobel Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka’s versatile prose emerges a mournful piece of theatre, which isn’t in fear of difficult themes of life ...

My Monday column is about the challenges facing news organizations trying to maintain conversations with readers while keeping the discourse civil and thoughtful. Consider what happened recently when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s weekly magazine, Go!, ran an article about the best places to smooch and featured a picture of an interracial couple kissing on the magazine ...

Keeping my eyes open after a short time doing other things last week, hey, a boy has a life you know! I noticed this fantastic set of magazine scans from the 1950s. Whilst the magazines reflect the times,  I simply revelled in the photography and typographic layout, something many modern magazines seem to have forgotten about ...

Oklahoma and the country have lost a great man.John Hope Franklin, revered historian and tireless advocate for equality, died this morning of congestive heart failure. He was 94. FOX 23's Douglas Clark has more on Franklin's extraordinary life. Friends describe him as someone ...

Tuesday 11.30am March 31st & April 7th 2009 BBC Radio 4 and on BBC i-player for 7 days after broadcast Programme 1: Less than 50 years ago a passionate bedroom kiss between a white man and a black woman in a popular television soap opera was the stuff of tabloid headlines. So risque that, in ...

[poll id="3"] Every day I trawl the web looking for interesting articles to bring to your screen. Tonight I happened to chance across an article called... " Do we need Black Mariage Day?" Personally, & I have to be honest here, I hadn't actually heard of the initiative and so proceeded to read the whole article. The author made ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. - It was a gathering to reclaim black manhood--a conference for all ages, men and women, held at Paine College. “You can achieve, you can believe, you can conceive, that truly this country is made for you and you need to use the world as your oyster," said Dr. Mike Weaver, organizer. Men and ...

Walter Backstrom | Letter to a young black man By WALTER BACKSTROM Bellevue Reporter Columnist Mar 20 2009, 1:26 PM It seems sometimes I grew up in a different country than you. I grew up in a time and place where black people couldn't vote. It seems times have changed. Sometimes it seems nothing has changed. When I tell you ...

I don’t remember ever having asked myself what race I belonged to. I was born advantaged in a society that discriminated against non-whites. So, am I white? The answer isn’t so simple. On my identity card, it says my skin color is white. So, am I white? Let’s have a look at my genealogical tree; since ...

MANAGUA, Mar 20 (IPS) - The first criminal prosecution for racial discrimination in Nicaragua, in response to a complaint brought by a woman lawmaker in the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), has focused attention on the segregationist treatment of indigenous and Afro-Caribbean women in the Caribbean coastal regions. Indigenous and black women make up 52 percent of ...

"Black Inventors, Crafting Over 200 years of Success". It is one of the most comprehensive books on Black Inventors since Henry E. Baker's research on Black inventors in the early 20th century. This book identifies Black inventors from five continents, over seventy countries, including almost all fifty states in the United States. This book cites a ...

THE BLACK SONS OF POLANDby Capt. Zbigniew W. (Adalbert) GamskiRichmond, British Columbia, CanadaChairman of the Eng. Zglenicki Charity Foundation – PolandSource: http://forum.poland.com/index.php?showtopic=1566It was a 1920 Polish-Soviet War.A new country just freshly reborn after few centuries of occupation by Prussia, Russia and Austria was eager to show to the rest of the world it’s loyalty in ...

About 300 people attended Monday night's dedication in St, Margaret's Church, Westminster Abbey, of a memorial plaque to Olaudah Equiano (c.1745-97), the leading black abolitionist. Equiano had been baptised at the Church in February 1759. While people waited for the start of the service the Church organist played the 'Trumpet Voluntary' by John Stanley (1712-86) and ...

I too have a dream! I usta hang out all day with my cousin, fantasizing about the day we were gonna be supa rich and famous. My cousin had a studio in the basement of his yard over on the West side of town; Powis Square. I rented a tiny room on the North side, ...