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/2012/01/british-race-rows/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2012/01/british-race-rows/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:44:04 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=6972   If , like me, you keep an eye on the British media and the way that it reports race, then you will not have let events of December 2011 go unnoticed. Seasoned observers of the media will recognise that headlines seem to be on a perpetual carousel, every now and again base reuse its [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2012/01/british-race-rows/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/john-conteh-boxer/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/john-conteh-boxer/#comments Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:31:32 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2585 John Conteh was born in Liverpool in 1951, to an Irish mother and Sierra Leonean father. He was raised in a rough neighbourhood, and his father encouraged him to box at the Kirkby Athletic Club when he was 10 to keep him from joining the local gangs. John excelled in boxing, As an amateur boxer, [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/john-conteh-boxer/feed/ 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/john-richard-archer-britains-first-black-mayor-1913/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/john-richard-archer-britains-first-black-mayor-1913/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:40:08 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2426 John Richard Archer was Britain’s first black Mayor. He was also the first black person to hold Civic Office in Britain as Councillor, Alderman and then mayor. Archer was born in Liverpool in 1836 to a Barbadian father and an Irish mother. He settled in Battersea in London around 1890 with his black Canadian wife, [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/john-richard-archer-britains-first-black-mayor-1913/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/ks3-britains-black-history-black-britons/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/ks3-britains-black-history-black-britons/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:48:09 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2432 There has been a Black Presence in the British Isles since Roman time. In more recent Centuries the black presence is well documented should you care to look for it. Teachers TV offers this Introductory video, which you can download from their site to start you in your investigations. Historian Tony Warner explains how the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/09/ks3-britains-black-history-black-britons/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/black-britons-race-riots-in-south-shields-and-liverpool/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/black-britons-race-riots-in-south-shields-and-liverpool/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:28:21 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=2344 Black Britons – Race Riots in South Shields The first race riots to take place in Britain were in South Shields (Tyneside). A number of Arab and Somali seamen had settled there in the 1860′s, and theses populations were added to by West African and West Indian Seamen who settled in North shields before the [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2010/08/black-britons-race-riots-in-south-shields-and-liverpool/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/race-riots-in-liverpool-1919/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/race-riots-in-liverpool-1919/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:46:53 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=1308 Race riots in the U.K have occurred for some time in Britain. Some of the first recorded “Race Riots” involving black people took place in Liverpool. Liverpool has a long established black community left over from its former status as a Slave Port. John Johnson a West Indian was stabbed in the face by 2 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/10/race-riots-in-liverpool-1919/feed/ 1 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/black-soldiers-in-the-british-army-john-ellis/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-soldiers-in-the-british-army-john-ellis/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:53:29 +0000 Phil http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=115 It would of course be easy to leave such men as ]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/black-soldiers-in-the-british-army-john-ellis/feed/ 0