http://www.blackpresence.co.uk Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:56:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/growing-with-pan/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/growing-with-pan/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 15:53:31 +0000 Jamma http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2931 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2011/05/growing-with-pan/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 Phil 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/do-community-groups-make-a-difference/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/do-community-groups-make-a-difference/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:01:47 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=612 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/do-community-groups-make-a-difference/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/memorial-plaque-dedcated-to-olaudah-equiano/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/memorial-plaque-dedcated-to-olaudah-equiano/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:47:40 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=418 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) [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/memorial-plaque-dedcated-to-olaudah-equiano/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/ethiopians-discover-what-israelis-really-think/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/ethiopians-discover-what-israelis-really-think/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:11:52 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=193 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.”  [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/ethiopians-discover-what-israelis-really-think/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-canadians-an-overview/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-canadians-an-overview/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:39:28 +0000 Maurice2014 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=169 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-canadians-an-overview/feed/ 5 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-african-mission-liverpool-england-1940s/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-african-mission-liverpool-england-1940s/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:54:26 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=133 Brian Lawrenson writes about his time growing up as a "Brown Baby" in a postwar Liverpool orphanage.]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/the-african-mission-liverpool-england-1940s/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/hitlers-forgotten-holocaust-victims/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/hitlers-forgotten-holocaust-victims/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 07:45:12 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=76 Like many West European nations, Germany established colonies in Africa in the late 1800s in what later became Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, and Tanzania.]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/hitlers-forgotten-holocaust-victims/feed/ 5