http://www.blackpresence.co.uk Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:02:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/high-flying-adored-15-year-old-girl-pilots-a-plane-coast-to-coast/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/high-flying-adored-15-year-old-girl-pilots-a-plane-coast-to-coast/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:35:58 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=951 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/09/high-flying-adored-15-year-old-girl-pilots-a-plane-coast-to-coast/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/vogue-2-in-2-are-they-finally-getting-their-act-together/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/vogue-2-in-2-are-they-finally-getting-their-act-together/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 20:41:22 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=528 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/05/vogue-2-in-2-are-they-finally-getting-their-act-together/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/theatre-review-death-and-the-kings-horseman/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/theatre-review-death-and-the-kings-horseman/#comments Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:11:13 +0000 Catch a Vibe http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=846 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/theatre-review-death-and-the-kings-horseman/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/a-tale-of-a-forgotten-people-pt1/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/a-tale-of-a-forgotten-people-pt1/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:01:12 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=799 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/04/a-tale-of-a-forgotten-people-pt1/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/12-things-the-negro-must-do/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/12-things-the-negro-must-do/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:20:31 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=646 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/12-things-the-negro-must-do/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/is-marriage-outdated/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/is-marriage-outdated/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:28:50 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=628 [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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/is-marriage-outdated/feed/ 1 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/news-alert-serial-killer-may-be-on-the-loose-and-hes-murdering-black-women/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/news-alert-serial-killer-may-be-on-the-loose-and-hes-murdering-black-women/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:40:09 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=626 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/news-alert-serial-killer-may-be-on-the-loose-and-hes-murdering-black-women/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/do-community-groups-make-a-difference/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/do-community-groups-make-a-difference/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:01:47 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=612 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/do-community-groups-make-a-difference/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/letter-to-a-young-black-man/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/letter-to-a-young-black-man/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:23:43 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=600 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/letter-to-a-young-black-man/feed/ 0 http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/caribbean-women-face-double-discrimination/ http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/caribbean-women-face-double-discrimination/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:44:30 +0000 admin http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/?p=581 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 [...]]]> http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/2009/03/caribbean-women-face-double-discrimination/feed/ 0