Posted on 14 June 2011. Tags: Caribbean, Womens writing, writing

6th International Conference of Caribbean Women's Writing: Comparative Critical Conversations
Friday 24 and Saturday 25 June 2011
Registration Fee: £70 (£35 students)
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Caribbean Women’s Literature as a body of work has become rooted in the region and across the diaspora. As a result, critics and teachers engaged in discovering, interpreting and disseminating the study of ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Caribbean, Community, 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
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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 30 March 2009. Tags: Administration, American, California, Elections, History, News, Obama, Racing, University, cartoons, race, schools, slaves, writing

Two months into the administration of the first African-American president, Liz Sidoti of the Associated Press takes a look today at some of the "old racial stereotypes and Internet-fueled falsehoods'' about President Barack Obama that have "flourished.''
There was that New York Post cartoon portraying the president as a monkey, that California mayor resigning after circulating ...
Posted in Africa, African American, Politics, Slavery, The Americas
Posted on 18 March 2009. Tags: Literature, Poetry, Police, SUS laws, Stop and Search, black writers, raymondobe, short stories, writers, writing

Same old Same old
The Streets are always watching.
That night,as I lay on my bed listening to the dogs bark,
I began to wonder how much more I could take, and I began to get a terrible feeling inside my chest and a tightness at the back of my throat, and I jerked upright with my head spinning and stared into the ...
Posted in Africa, Arts, Black Britain, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Books, Community, Education, Europe, Politics, Racism
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 07 March 2009. Tags: Black, Black History, Britain, Discrimination, Economics, History, London, News, Politics, Troops, War, negro, writing

For instance, a British soldier writes to complain that in an English port part of a well-known restaurant is barred to "coloured troops". ?He says that the employees of the restaurant disliked discriminating against coloured soldiers, and that a group of British soldiers near said what they thought about colour prejudice.
He adds that his unit ...
Posted in African American, Black Britain, Black History Month, Europe, War