Tag Archive | "stories"
Posted on 12 September 2009. Tags: Africa, African American, History, News, Women, stories

This July, 15-year-old Kimberly Anyadike finished a record-breaking flight across the country, becoming what is believed to be the youngest African-American female to pilot an airplane from coast to coast. The adventurous teenager flew from Compton Woodley Airport in Compton, CA, to Newport News, VA ,and back, making thirteen stops along the way. Her flight ...
Posted in African American, Black Britain, Community, News, The Americas, Women
Posted on 04 May 2009. Tags: Black, Blacks, Hair, News, Politics, Women, beauty, stories, writing

Vogue’s Beyonce Cover, Racist?
Posted by: Annika Harris | Filed in: News & Culture
5:30PM, Tuesday March 17th 2009
Comments (13)
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 Africa
Posted on 29 April 2009. Tags: Admiral Howard, Africa, Black, Blacks, Females in the Navy, Media, Navy, News, Somalia, president, stories

MAERSK-ALABAMA CAPTAIN RESCUED BY REAR ADM. MICHELLE HOWARD'S SHIP
Whoa!
Nope, this is one you SURE DIDN'T HEAR on the news. The ship that rescued the Maersk-Alabama's captain was skippered by a BLACK FEMALE REAR ADMIRAL? Get OUT of here!
If you're like me, you briefly saw her in some news clips, and (like me) probably figured she ...
Posted in Africa, African American, Education, Events, Men, Middle East, News, Politics, The Americas, War, Women
Posted on 23 April 2009. Tags: Black, Blacks, Inter racial, News, Racing, magazines, race, stories

My Monday column is about the challenges facing news organizations trying to maintain conversations with readers while keeping the discourse civil and thoughtful.
Consider what happened recently when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s weekly magazine, Go!, ran an article about the best places to smooch and featured a picture of an interracial couple kissing on the magazine ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Education, Environment, Europe, Men, Politics
Posted on 06 April 2009. Tags: American, Easter, English, Food, History, Jamaica, Religion, Tradition, jamaican, stories

KINGSTON, Jamaica – While American families hide colored eggs and eat chocolate bunnies, Jamaica’s tradition of eating Easter bun and cheese, fortune telling and Carnival are the ways this island celebrates this holiday period.
COMMON EASTER TRADITIONS
Easter egg predictions
One of Jamaica's long established practices is the setting of an egg to predict one's future. It is ...
Posted in Africa
Posted on 28 March 2009. Tags: Black, Black Britain, Black Film, Black akers, Blacks, Britain, British, Caribbean, Caribbeans, Derby, Films, London, News, Opera, Police, TV, actors, film, stories, writers

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 ...
Posted in Africa, Arts, Black Britain, Community, Education, Europe, Men, Music, Politics, Racism, Women
Posted on 24 March 2009. Tags: Africa, African American, Africans, America, Augusta, Black, Blacks, Community, Education, Events, Georgia, News, Students, Trade, Women, Youth, children, drugs, jail, schools, society, statistics, stories

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 21 March 2009. Tags: Add new tag, Black, Black Fathers, Blacks, Hair, Music, News, Police, Racing, Racism, Sport, Teachers, Women, Youngmen, drugs, race, rap, schools, society, stories, street

Walter Backstrom | Letter to a young black man
By WALTER BACKSTROM
Bellevue Reporter Columnist
Mar 20 2009, 1:26 PM
It seems sometimes I grew up in a different country than you.
I grew up in a time and place where black people couldn't vote. It seems times have changed. Sometimes it seems nothing has changed.
When I tell you ...
Posted in African American, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Community, Politics, Racism, The Americas
Posted on 12 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Black, Dr Dre, Grammy, Hip, Michael Jackson, Music, Rizla, hop, rap, stories, street, writing

I too have a dream!
I usta hang out all day with my cousin, fantasizing about the day we were gonna be supa rich and famous. My cousin had a studio in the basement of his yard over on the West side of town; Powis Square. I rented a tiny room on the North side, ...
Posted in Arts, Black Blog Posts, Black Britain, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Community, Europe, Music, Poetry
Posted on 10 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Africa, Africans, Health, London, News, Science, University, medicine, stories, street

What does medicine owe to Africa?
By Jane Elliott
Health reporter, BBC News
The contribution of European culture to medicine has long been recognised.
The Greeks are thought by many to be forerunners of modern medicine - they studied the progression of disease, they knew something of the inner workings of the body, and their language gave medicine many ...
Posted in Africa
Posted on 08 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Artwork, Black, Blacks, Brown, Europe, HILLINGDON, History, London, News, Politics, Racing, Rihanna, Twitter, Women, awards, celebs, race, stories

http://www.ondamoney.com/ http://tinyurl.com/akyq45 #
Hot Digital Radio http://tinyurl.com/bv8n3m #
Black Women In Europe http://tinyurl.com/auccek #
Bienvenue sur Grioo Pour Elle, le site dédié à la beauté des femmes noires et métissées http://tinyurl.com/bxu2vo #
Marie-Raphaelle Designs http://tinyurl.com/btu8um #
Danielle Belton's The Black Snob - The Snob Blog http://blacksnob.com/ #
Black Girl in London http://tinyurl.com/akfnn7 #
AfroSpear http://tinyurl.com/add9lw #
Morgan Tsvangirai survives car crash but wife ...
Posted in Africa, African American, Arts, Black Blog Posts, Community, Europe, Media, Music, Racism, Slavery, War, Women
Posted on 07 March 2009. Tags: Africa, African American, Africans, America, American, Americas, Art, Artists, Arts, Black, Blacks, Drawing, History, Sport, coons, segregation, stories

During the segregated years of the 1900 through 1960s America, the Black Press offered comic strips that featured African American heroes & heroines in a wide variety of life situations. These characters were not confined to gritty 'inner-city' stories, poor 'ghetto' life or as one dimensional comic relief as today .
Just as the 'mainstream' carried ...
Posted in African American, Arts, Books
Posted on 06 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Africa, Africans, America, American, Americas, Black, Black History, Blacks, Books, Britain, British, Canada, Caribbean, Caribbeans, Community, Doctors, Egypt, Europe, Events, Exodusters, France, Guyana, Halifax, Health, History, Illegal, Kansas, Knights, Military, Music, News, North America, Notices, Parties, Personalities, Police, Prison, Racing, Racism, Racist, Trade, War, Washington, Women, children, farming, football, kids, negro, notice, president, race, schools, segregation, slaves, society, stories, street, violence

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 Politics, The Americas
Posted on 01 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Africans, Afro German, America, American, Americas, Black, Blacks, Books, Entertainment, Europe, Films, Food, France, Germany, History, Holocaust, Israel, Murder, Parties, Prison, Racing, Soldiers, Trade, University, War, Women, allegations, children, entertainments, film, justice, race, stories


Like many West European nations, Germany established colonies in Africa in the late 1800s in what later became Togo, Cameroon, Namibia, and Tanzania.
Posted in Africa, Black Blog Posts, Black History, Black History Month, Community, Education, Entertainment, Europe, Food, Job Vacancies, Men, Military, Racism, The Americas, War, Women