Tag Archive | "Politics"
Posted on 01 March 2012. Tags: Audrey Wise MP, Black Politicians, Changing States by Mark Hendrick, Commons, Conservative Policy, Labour Party, MEP, Mark Hendrick, Mark Kendrick MP, Politics, Somali, Super Thursday, The Euro and Co-operative Enterprise by Mark Hendrick

Mark Hendrick is a black politician in the U.K house of Commens. He entered the Commons on November 24 2000. Many of his Commons interventions have been on European matters, where he has taken the opportunity to attack Conservative policy.
Mark Hendrick entered the Commons on November 24 2000, 'Super Thursday', when three separate by-elections were ...
Posted in Black Britain
Posted on 15 December 2011. Tags: Barack Obama, Media, News International, Politics, Sarah Palin, The Sun, hacking, race

Contributed Post: By Roddy NewmanWhile the British media has uncovered a number of Rupert Murdoch scandals which have thankfully led to a reduction in his influence in this country, it has not reported, or has barely reported many horrible things which his media empire does in Britain, the US, and Australia.
This article is about those overlooked Murdoch scandals.
It discusses: 1 crucial aspect of the paying police ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Guest Blog Posts
Posted on 24 June 2011. Tags: Colonialism, Julius Silver, Politics, Robert J.C. Young, Rumina Sethi, postcolonialism, third world

A strong argument for returning the focus of postcolonial studies to its roots as a tool for political activism among people of the third world.
The Politics of Postcolonialism: Empire, Nation and Resistance
Rumina Sethi
Released July 4th 2011
PB / £ 17.99 / 9780745323633 / 215mm x 135mm / 192 pp
Rumina Sethi challenges postcolonial critics to put their ...
Posted in African History, Black People in Europe, Black Women, Caribbean History
Posted on 14 April 2011. Tags: Newcastle, Politicians, Politics

Chi Onwurah, MP
Labour MP for Newcastle Central. Entered Parliament May 6th General Election 2010.
Chinyela 'Chi' Onwurah was born in Newcastle in 1965. She attended Kenton School before studying Electrical Engineering, graduating from Imperial College in 1987. Ms Onwurah worked in hardware and software management, product management, market development and strategy for a variety of companies ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Black Women
Posted on 26 September 2010. Tags: Black Londoners, GLC, Grenada, League of Coloured Peoples, London county council, Lord Pitt, Politics

Lord David Pitt ,Baron Pitt of Hampstead, now deceased was the longest serving Black Parliamentarian, having been granted a life peerage in 1975. Born in Grenada, he came to Britain in 1933 to study medicine at Edinburgh University. His achievements in his two chosen careers of medicine and politics were considerable. In 1943, while ...
Posted in Black History Month UK
Posted on 16 September 2010. Tags: Bernie Grant, Black Politicians, European Parliament, Guyana, Haringey, Politics, Tottenham

The Late Bernie Grant was Britain's foremost black spokesman, a champion of social and racial justice, and a pioneer for diversity.
Born in Guyana, and resident in Britain since 1963, Bernie Grant worked as a British Railways clerk,he was also National Union of Public Employees area officer, and as a partisan of the Black Trade Unionists ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month UK, Black People in Europe, Caribbean History, Slavery
Posted on 19 April 2010. Tags: Black Voting, Conservative, Ethnic minority voting behaviour, Labour, Labour Liberal, Politics, Politics and race, about my vote, register to vote

With the UK general election called for May 6th 2010.? It's time to make sure you are registered to vote.
To register to vote you can visit About My vote
Now there are a great many of you who will be saying that they don't like politicians, and that what do politicians actually do for you anyway?
Something ...
Posted in African History, Black Britain, Caribbean History
Posted on 13 January 2010. Tags: Abdoulaye Wade, African Renaissance, Corruption, Ousmane Sow, Politics, Sculpture, Senegal Statue, Sengal Sculpture, Statue, senegal

Senegal, long held up as a great example of African democracy has it seems slipped into the mire of unreasonable corruption and despotism. What else could possibly explain the actions of President Abdoulaye Wade? Wade commissioned the building of the "African Renaissance", it was billed as Africa's Statue of Liberty, an artistic ...
Posted in African History, Black Women
Posted on 04 May 2009. Tags: ANC, Africa, African History, Africans, Congress, Corruption, Democrats, Economics, Economy, Nationalism, News, Parties, Politics, South Africa, Zimbabwe, equality, kids, poverty, president, violence

There was no surprise for what proved to be a resounding victory for Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma and the African National Congress (ANC). Zuma is the come back kid of all time; the man who against all odds came back from political abyss. In 2005 he was sacked as deputy leader of the ANC by then ...
Posted in African History
Posted on 04 May 2009. Tags: Black, Blacks, Hair, News, Politics, beauty, black women, stories, writing

Vogue’s Beyonce Cover, Racist?
Posted by: Annika Harris | Filed in: News & Culture
5:30PM, Tuesday March 17th 2009
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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 ...
Posted in African History
Posted on 30 April 2009. Tags: BNP, Britain, British, British National Party, Community, Nationalism, Parties, Politics, Racist, Racists, fashion, race, society

Edmund Standing, April 19th 2009, 4:07 pm
What the BNPs modernisation reveals about modern Britain
The BNPs 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 ...
Posted in African History
Posted on 30 April 2009. Tags: Africa, African History, Business, Economics, Economy, Politics, globalisation

Even though it is the least integrated with the global economy, Africa may be the worst hit region by the global economic crisis. Each of the four channels through which the crisis is affecting Africa has a particularly nefarious impact.
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Posted in African History