Posts Tagged ‘Women’

High Flying, 15-Year-Old Girl Pilots a Plane Coast to Coast

Posted in African American, Black Britain, Community, History, News, The Americas, Women on September 12th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
Kimberly Anyadike

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 ...

Vogue – 2 in 2- are they finally getting their act together?

Posted in African on May 4th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
Annika Harris

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 ...

Theatre review: Death and the King’s Horseman

Posted in Arts, Black Britain, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Community, Entertainment, Events, History on April 29th, 2009 by Catch a Vibe – Be the first to comment

Is death the start of the human journey or its end? Is mortality a transition from one sphere of our existence to another - the recurring cycle of life, death and rebirth? From Nobel Literature Laureate Wole Soyinka’s versatile prose emerges a mournful piece of theatre, which isn’t in fear of difficult themes of life ...

A Tale of a Forgotten People (Congo) – Pt1

Posted in African, Community, Education, Environment, Events, Famine, Health, History, Media, Men, Military, Racism, Religion, War, Women on April 14th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
Congo is Wealthy

A Tale of a Forgotten People By Vava Tampa Outside public eyes in a remote corner of Africa and literally under the world's radar screen, a country is sinking in a river of blood! Mothers crying! Fathers and sons trading hot metals! Neighbours, in alliance with local armed groups, seething through the thick dense forest to ...

12 Things The Negro Must Do

Posted in African American, Community, History, Men, Politics, Racism, Slavery, The Americas, Women on March 30th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
Nannie Burroughs

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 ...

Is marriage outdated?

Posted in African on March 25th, 2009 by admin – 1 Comment
Has Marriage had it

[poll id="3"] 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 ...

NEWS ALERT!!!! SERIAL KILLER MAY BE ON THE LOOSE … AND HE’S MURDERING BLACK WOMEN!!!

Posted in African American, Community, Education, Health, News, Notices, The Americas, Women on March 25th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

MediaTakeOut,com just learned that police in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. are concerned that there may be a serial killer who is targeting Black mothers and their teenage daughters. And the killer appears to be preying on women in Prince Georges County, Maryland - the county with the highest concentration of affluent African Americans in ...

Do Community groups make a difference?

Posted in Community, Education, Law and Order, Men, Politics, The Americas, Women on March 24th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

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 ...

Letter to a young black man

Posted in African American, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Community, History, Politics, Racism, The Americas on March 21st, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment
Walter Backstrom

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 ...

Caribbean Women Face Double Discrimination

Posted in African American, Caribbean, Community, News, Politics, Racism, Women on March 20th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

MANAGUA, Mar 20 (IPS) - The first criminal prosecution for racial discrimination in Nicaragua, in response to a complaint brought by a woman lawmaker in the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN), has focused attention on the segregationist treatment of indigenous and Afro-Caribbean women in the Caribbean coastal regions. Indigenous and black women make up 52 percent of ...


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