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Posted on 09 August 2010. Tags: Brand, Charities, Community, Daddy Cool, Facebook, Samantha Watson, Twitter

Black non-profit organisations are fighting for air as they currently feel the financial squeeze. Funding, funding and more funding is what nearly every non-profit organisation wants or fears they may not receive. The other pulling factor is that their valuable work is not being recognised. So what you will find is that many organisations end ...
Posted in Black Blog Posts, Black Britain, Black Britons, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Community, Media, News, Women
Posted on 15 September 2009. Tags: African American, Americas, Black, Community, Education, History, race

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 ...
Posted in African American, Black Blog Posts, Community, History, News, The Americas
Posted on 11 September 2009. Tags: Black, Black History, Britain, Caribbean, Community

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, ...
Posted in Black Britain, Caribbean, Education, History, News, The Americas
Posted on 04 May 2009. Tags: Africa, Britain, Caribbean, Community, Economics, Events, Markets, Media, Music, sustainability

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 ...
Posted in African, Caribbean, Community, Events, Media, Music
Posted on 30 April 2009. Tags: BNP, Britain, British, British National Party, Community, fashion, Nationalism, Parties, Politics, race, Racist, Racists, society

Edmund Standing, April 19th 2009, 4:07 pm
What the BNP’s ‘modernisation’ reveals about modern Britain
The BNP’s rebranding strategy reveals something very interesting about Britain, and white British people in particular. For years, by promoting ‘racial nationalism’, the BNP remained an utterly marginal organisation, largely attracting hardcore racists, skinheads, and social misfits. The fact that the BNP ...
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Posted on 30 March 2009. Tags: 12 Things The Negro Must Do, African, American, Americas, Blacks, Business, children, Community, Education, Investment, Nannie Helen Burroughs., negro, race, schools, segregation, self improvement, Washington, Women

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 ...
Posted in African American, Community, History, Men, Politics, Racism, Slavery, The Americas, Women
Posted on 25 March 2009. Tags: African, African American, Africans, America, Americas, Black, Blacks, Census, Community, ethnicity, Marriage, society, Women

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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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Posted on 25 March 2009. Tags: African American, Black Men, Community, Eric Holder, John Ridley, Media, Michael Steele, Obama, Personalities, Politics, Richard Parsons, University

Blogger John Ridley points out that whilst the President of the worldsmost powerful country enjoys cosy nights on comfy chatshows, and other African American high flyers like Eric Holder, Michael Steele and Richard Parsons are making headlines the situation is considerably worse for the average African American male.
My response to this is, "Yeah, tell us something ...
Posted in African American, Black Blog Posts, Community, Education, History, Men, News, Politics, Students, The Americas, Women
Posted on 24 March 2009. Tags: African, African American, Africans, America, Augusta, Black, Blacks, children, Community, drugs, Education, Events, Georgia, jail, News, schools, society, statistics, stories, Students, Trade, Women, Youth

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 ...
Posted in Community, Education, Law and Order, Men, Politics, The Americas, Women
Posted on 24 March 2009. Tags: allegations, Brown, California, Community, Corruption, drugs, Events, Illegal, inner circle, mayor jerry brown, News, Nightclubs, Nightlife, Oakland, oakland city hall, parking garage, Parties, Police, police officers, Racism, Racist, revellers

Last week, Geoffrey Pete--long a well-respected figure in Oakland's African-American community, and the owner of Geoffrey's Inner Circle nightclub--held a press conference outside Oakland City Hall to announce he's considering filing a complaint against the OPD for unlawful harassment.
Pete has previously raised allegations that OPD and former mayor Jerry Brown instituted a crackdown on Oakland's ...
Posted in African American, Arts, Community, Music, Politics, Racism, The Americas
Posted on 06 March 2009. Tags: Army, Black, Blacks, children, Community, Discrimination, equality, Ethiopians, Israel, Jewish, kids, Racism, schools, society, Soldiers, Troops

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 ...
Posted in African, Community, History, Middle East, Religion, War
Posted on 06 March 2009. Tags: Africa, African, Africans, America, American, Americas, Black, Black History, Blacks, Books, Britain, British, Canada, Caribbean, Caribbeans, children, Community, Doctors, Egypt, Europe, Events, Exodusters, farming, football, France, Guyana, Halifax, Health, History, Illegal, Kansas, kids, Knights, Military, Music, negro, News, North America, notice, Notices, Parties, Personalities, Police, president, Prison, race, Racing, Racism, Racist, schools, segregation, slaves, society, stories, street, Trade, violence, War, Washington, Women

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 ...
Posted in History, Politics, The Americas
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