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

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, History, News, The Americas, Women
Posted on 04 May 2009. Tags: beauty, Black, Blacks, Hair, News, Politics, stories, Women, 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 ...
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Posted on 29 April 2009. Tags: actors, Adoption, Black, Blacks, British, Colonies, comedy, Death, England, Environment, Events, Literature, Markets, Nationalism, nigeria, Racism, Tradition, Women, writers

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 ...
Posted in Arts, Black Britain, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Community, Entertainment, Events, History
Posted on 14 April 2009. Tags: Africa, African, Africans, Army, Congo, Crime, Death, Economics, ethnicity, Europe, Genocide, Holocaust, Politicians, Politics, president, Sudan, Troops, violence, War, Women

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 ...
Posted in African, Community, Education, Environment, Events, Famine, Health, History, Media, Men, Military, Racism, Religion, War, Women
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, Alert, Murder, Serial Killer, Women

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

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, History, Politics, Racism, The Americas
Posted on 20 March 2009. Tags: american parliament, atlantic ocean, autonomous regions, Black, black women, Blacks, Caribbean, caribbean coast, caribbean sea, caribbean women, Caribbeans, coastal regions, criminal prosecution, Discrimination, double discrimination, eastern coastline, fsln, hooker, marginalisation, Nicaragua, Nightclubs, parlacen, public prosecution service, racial discrimination, s, sandinistanational liberation front, Sea, South America, University, woman lawmaker, Women

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 ...
Posted in African American, Caribbean, Community, News, Politics, Racism, Women
Posted on 19 March 2009. Tags: African American, Black History, black women, Women

America’s history is replete with women of color standing tall – from Sojourner Truth to Michelle Obama and all in between, Black women have been the glue that have held the Black family together in the face of adversity. Although women in general have not received proper recognition in our history books, there are a ...
Posted in African American, Beauty & Fashion, Education, History, Politics, The Americas, Women
Posted on 15 March 2009. Tags: Black Music, hop hop, Women

Daniella Maison is the edgy, unswerving, soulful writer been best known for her series of poetry publications since her astonishing poetical debut in 2000. A young Masters graduate, Maison currently works as a freelance writer and part time music promoter, and is set to make an impact within the local and wider community, she comments:
‘James ...
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