http://www.blackpresence.co.uk Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:06:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/1303/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/1303/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:56:57 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/1303/ Above is a set of Newspaper articles from the 1780s.? Black Dance in London – Circa 1780s]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/1303/feed/ 0 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/2009/05/vogue-2-in-2-are-they-finally-getting-their-act-together/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/vogue-2-in-2-are-they-finally-getting-their-act-together/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 20:41:22 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=528 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 since it [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/vogue-2-in-2-are-they-finally-getting-their-act-together/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/maersk-alabama-captain-rescued-by-rear-adm-michelle-howards-ship/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/maersk-alabama-captain-rescued-by-rear-adm-michelle-howards-ship/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:57:57 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=855 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) [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/maersk-alabama-captain-rescued-by-rear-adm-michelle-howards-ship/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/theatre-review-death-and-the-kings-horseman/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/theatre-review-death-and-the-kings-horseman/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:11:13 +0000 Catch a Vibe http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=846 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/theatre-review-death-and-the-kings-horseman/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/interracial-couple-kissing-makes-readers-hot/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/interracial-couple-kissing-makes-readers-hot/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:21:22 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=840 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/interracial-couple-kissing-makes-readers-hot/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/africans-in-wartime-propaganda/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/africans-in-wartime-propaganda/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:16:08 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=773 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/africans-in-wartime-propaganda/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/1955-black-history-as-seen-through-magazines/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/1955-black-history-as-seen-through-magazines/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:57:00 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=752 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/1955-black-history-as-seen-through-magazines/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/12-things-the-negro-must-do/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/12-things-the-negro-must-do/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:20:31 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=646 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/12-things-the-negro-must-do/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/remembering-john-hope-franklin/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/remembering-john-hope-franklin/#comments Sun, 29 Mar 2009 18:31:59 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=638 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 who was shy and didn’t particularly like a lot of attention. But [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/remembering-john-hope-franklin/feed/ 0