Posted on 24 October 2011.
The National Portrait Gallery houses a unique collection of all forms of portraiture of the people who have made or who are currently contributing to British history and culture. With more than 1.8 million visitors each year, the Gallery is one of the country’s most important and popular galleries.  Faith, Slavery and Identity Programme Internship Fixed-term for 6 ...
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Posted on 24 October 2011.
Job Details:Community Project Officer Ref1546X Department Education and Outreach Directorate Operations and ServicesBandBand ESpecialism Closing Date Monday 7th November 2011 at midnight Job Purpose Based in the Education & Outreach Department but with some national travel, the post holder will build and maintain links with new communities, specifically from African and Caribbean communities. You will work with these communities ...
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Posted on 04 July 2011.
This year the Caribbean UK Film Festival 2011, hosted by actor Geff Frances and Charles Thompson MBE founder of the Screen Nation Awards, will explore the themes of fashion, music, sport and culture with a special feature honouring the lifetime achievements of actor Earl Cameron CBE - not to be missed! You are encouraged to come dressed in your own ...
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Posted on 17 June 2011.
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 ...
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Posted on 14 June 2011.
6th International Conference of Caribbean Women's Writing: Comparative Critical Conversations Friday 24 and Saturday 25 June 2011 Registration Fee: £70 (£35 students) Download Registration Form. Caribbean Women’s Literature as a body of work has become rooted in the region and across the diaspora. As a result, critics and teachers engaged in discovering, interpreting and disseminating the study of ...
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Posted on 24 May 2011.
The Steel pan is a beautiful creation originated in Trinidad & Tobago in the late 19.30's and is the only orchestral family of acoustic musical instruments to be invented in the 20th century. With instruments ranging from low bass to high sopranos, all made out of the same raw material (oil drums) makes this invention ...
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Posted on 08 February 2011.
Mighty Jamma UK'S NO1 Recording Steelpan Artist Jamma started playing music at a very early age, jamming on pots and pans etc. When I was 9 years oldI moved on to playing the bass guitar and at the age of 11I moved on to playing the steelpan and since thenI have never looked back.The pan is ...
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Posted on 04 October 2010.
Eric Eustace Williams (25 September 1911 – 29 March 1981) was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian. Eric Williams was a descendant from the de Boissiere family which made its fortune trading African slaves illegally after ...
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Posted on 14 October 2009.
Examiner.com 1492-1493- A black navigator, Pedro Alonso Nino, travels with Christopher Columbus 1494- The first Africans arrive in Hispaniola (current day Haiti - Dominican Republic) with Christopher Columbus. They are free persons. 1501- The Spanish king allows the introduction of enslaved African into Spain 1511-The first enslaved Africans arrive in Hispaniola. 1513-Thirty African accompany Vasco Nunez de Balboa on his ...
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Posted on 20 September 2009.
Arthur Wharton was the world's first Black Professional Footballer.Arthur was born to parents who were both mixed race. His father was half Grenadian and half Scottish, and ...
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Posted on 11 September 2009.
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, ...
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Posted on 04 May 2009.
I'm browsing the shelves of my office bookshelf. This is, in fact, the philosophy section at the local library, but i'm sure that many of the web community out there will be familiar with this analogy. I'm also very excited at the impending Summer launch of the BBake entertainment service. BBake at www.bbake.com will allow you to ...
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Posted on 29 April 2009.
Registration closes 18 May 2009 - Book now to avoid disappointment! The Unit for the Social Study of Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell (TASC Unit) at De Montfort University, Leicester is pleased to present this exclusive one-day conference. The conference examines Sickle Cell Disorders, healthcare neglect in prisons, racism in the criminal justice system and the introduction of ...
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Posted on 30 March 2009.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The body of former President Janet Jagan is to be cremated immediately following her state funeral here on Tuesday. Jagan died early Saturday morning at the Georgetown Hospital. She was 88 years old. On Tuesday, the funeral procession will depart her Georgetown residence at 8:00 am and will stop directly in front of the ...
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Posted on 28 March 2009.
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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Posted on 24 March 2009.
UNCERTAINTY hangs over the future of Antigua and Barbuda's second-term government of Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer last week with the filing of four election petitions Thursday (March 19) by the opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) in the High Court. RICKEY SINGH The challenging of the declared results involve three of the nine seats won by the incumbent ...
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Posted on 23 March 2009.
Second One Day International-Guyana West Indies 264-8 Innings Complete (S Chanderpaul 112 no, R R Sarwan 74) v England 243 (A J Strauss 105) West Indies beat England by 21 runs  Local hero Shivnarine Chanderpaul led from the front as West Indies bounced back from their farcical defeat in the opening one-day international with a 21-run victory over ...
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Posted on 20 March 2009.
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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Posted on 20 March 2009.
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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Posted on 20 March 2009.
Havana, Mar 20 (Prensa Latina) The Parliaments of Cuba and Uganda signed here a protocol to define the framework to promote and develop cooperation. Jaime Crombet and Rebeca Kadaka, vice presidents of the National Assemblies of Cuba and Uganda, respectively, signed the accord inspired on the traditional ties that bind both countries. Under the agreement, the legislators ...
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Posted on 20 March 2009.
The Captain Morgan's rum distillery planned for St. Croix will release no molasses or other effluent into the sea, instead converting it to organic solids suitable for soil enrichment, Diageo officials told the V.I. Coastal Zone Management committee Wednesday. At the committee's public hearing on the Diageo CZM permit in the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport ...
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Posted on 18 March 2009.
Top Guyana Award For West Indies Batsman CARIBWORLDNEWS.COM - Jackson Heights,NY,USA CaribWorldNews, GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Weds. Mar. 18, 2009: West Indies batsman and former skipper, Shiv Chanderpaul, is set to be bestowed with a Guyana ... See all stories on this topic A history of events of CLICO Guyana Caribbean Net News - Georgetown,Cayman Islands CLICO Guyana established ...
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Posted on 10 March 2009.
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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Posted on 06 March 2009.
The Governor General of Canada is the vice-regal or viceroy representative in Canada of the Queen of Canada , who is the head of state. A viceroy is a royal official who governs a country in the name of and as representative of the monarch. Canada is one of sixteen British Commonwealth realms, all of ...
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Posted on 06 March 2009.
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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Joseph Knight
UK Black Podcast
