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Black Dance in London – Circa 1780s


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

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Black Footballers in Britain-Walter Tull


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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 ...

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Vogue – 2 in 2- are they finally getting their act together?


Annika Harris

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 ...

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MAERSK-ALABAMA CAPTAIN RESCUED BY REAR ADM. MICHELLE HOWARD’S SHIP


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 ...

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Theatre review: Death and the King’s Horseman


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 ...

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Interracial couple kissing makes readers hot


Inter Racial Kiss Causes Stir in the U.S

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 ...

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Africans in Wartime Propaganda (pt1)


Allied Propaganda in WW1

You would be surprised the amount of people who are totally ignorant about the role of black troops in both World Wars, and even in subsequent wars. Furthermore, the use of Black troops in European armies was extremely controversial in the first part of the 20th Century. Africans have been depicted both positively and negatively ...

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1955 Black History As Seen Through Magazines


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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 ...

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12 Things The Negro Must Do


Nannie Burroughs

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 and businesswoman who ...

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Remembering John Hope Franklin


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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 ...

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BLACK SCREEN BRITAIN


Black Cinema

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 ...

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Is marriage outdated?


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[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 ...

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Do Community groups make a difference?


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 ...

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Letter to a young black man


Walter Backstrom

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 ...

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A White Cuban Woman Facing the Mirror


What Race?

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 ...

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Caribbean Women Face Double Discrimination


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 ...

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African Medicine; The E-book


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AFRICAN MEDICINE The E-Book This holistic health guide is the first book ever to disclose the closely guarded healing secrets of Yoruba priests. It covers the history, methods, and healing treatments of a 10,000 year old West African Tradition. This amazing book consolidates African Spiritual Science and holistic healing into something comprehensive and usable everyday to help one ...

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-03-08


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Pioneering African American Cartoonists


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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' carried ...

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Home Educators and Black Supplementary Schools Conference


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Event: Home Educators and Black Supplementary Schools Conference "Updated information and discussion." What: Workshop Host: BAOUKHE and NABSS Start Time: Saturday, June 6 at 11:00am End Time: Saturday, June 6 at 4:00pm Where: Hackney Museum To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below: http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=55194513302&aref=20916742

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Ethiopians Discover What Israelis Really Think


Ethiopian Jews Protest

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 ...

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Black Canadians – An overview


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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 ...

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Black Hair – How do you-do your do?


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Black woman….Does it matter how you wear your hair? natural, relaxed, weave or whatever.

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Black Soldiers in the British Army-John Ellis


It would of course be easy to leave such men as

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Black British History – Some Light reading


* Staying Power-The History of Black people in Britain by Peter Fryer (Pluto Press 1984) * Black England-Life before Emancipation by Gretchen Gerzina (John Murray,1995) * Black Settlers in Britain 1555-1958 by Nigel File and chris Power (Heinemann,1981; reprinted 1995) * Black Edwardians-Black people in Britain 1901-1914 by Jeffrey Green (Frank Cass 1998) * Wonderful adventures of Mary Seacole ...

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