Posted on 05 July 2011.
Call for Papers
Writing Slavery after Beloved
Literature, Historiography, Criticism
International Symposium
Université de Nantes – France
March 16-17, 2012
Can Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) be considered as a watershed in the contemporary representations of slavery and the slave trade, not only in the literary field, but also in historiography and Cultural Studies? This Symposium will attempt to assess whether this major ...
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Posted on 04 July 2011. Tags: Black Doctors, Black Nurses, Black People in Health Care, Doctor, Hospitals, Nurse
1861: Anderson Ruffin Abbott (7 April 1837 – 29 December 1913) was the first Black Canadian to become a physician after being granted a medical licence from the medical board of Upper Canada in 1861.
1862: Washington, D.C.: Freedmen's Hospital is established & is the only Federally-funded health care facility for Negroes in the nation. 1864: ...
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Posted on 27 June 2011. Tags: Black Hair, Hair styles in school, School admissions, St Gregory's Catholic Science College, black hairstyles for men, cornrows, court case, school uniform policy
Recently An Afro-Caribbean teenager has won a ruling that St Gregory's Catholic Science College in Kenton, Harrow, north London was applying a cornrows ban in a way which amounted to "unjustified" indirect racial discrimination.
The Schools decision to ban hairstyles it says have become associated with gang culture has resulted in the boy being excluded from school, in September ...
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Posted on 24 June 2011. Tags: Colonialism, Julius Silver, Politics, Robert J.C. Young, Rumina Sethi, postcolonialism, third world
A strong argument for returning the focus of postcolonial studies to its roots as a tool for political activism among people of the third world.
The Politics of Postcolonialism: Empire, Nation and Resistance
Rumina Sethi
Released July 4th 2011
PB / £ 17.99 / 9780745323633 / 215mm x 135mm / 192 pp
Rumina Sethi challenges postcolonial critics to put their ...
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Posted on 04 May 2011. Tags: Books, Slavery, Thames & Hudson, Walvin
When I was asked to review "The Slave Trade" By James Walvin, It was with some trepidation because I had read many books on the Slave Trade during my time as a student and expected some weighty and wordy tome. That would have to be waded through and then deciphered before I could even begin to think of writing ...
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Posted on 24 March 2011. Tags: Black History, British History, Civil Rights, Civil Rights movement in Britain, Martin Luther King, No blacks, Paul Stephenson, US Civil Rights movement, no dogs, no irish
History classes in the National Curriculum will often gloss over slavery, idolize the efforts of William Wilberforce and study the methods of Martin Luther King’s struggle for civil rights. For many young Black people in Britain, one would argue that it is very easy for them to recall the names of US Civil Rights icons, better ...
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Posted on 14 September 2010. Tags: Almost British Book, Black in Prison, Institutional Racism, Institutionalised Racism, Olivea Ebanks, Olivea M Ebanks, Prison, Prison Service, Prisons, almost British, black Prison Officers
Occasionally here at blackpresence we get sent manuscripts advertising upcoming books. We always try to support quality work our online community, none more so than the upcoming book "Almost British" from Author Olivea M Ebanks.
The Passion that this book is written with shines through. Olivea's determination, not just to take on the establishment and win, ...
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Posted on 16 May 2010. Tags: Barrington Levy, Cocoa Tea, Freddie McGregor, Jamaican artists, Levi Roots, O2 Academy Brixton, Reggae Reggae Sauce, Stevie Face, The Uprising Festival
The Uprising Festival will take place at O2 Academy Brixton on Saturday 19th June 2010. It features 4 great Jamaican artists Barrington Levy, Freddie McGregor, Cocoa Tea and Stevie Face, and is hosted by Levi Roots (Reggae Reggae Sauce). As well as a celebration of Reggae Music, it is also a father's day weekend celebration ...
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Posted on 04 May 2010. Tags: Racism, mixed race, mixed-race children, white mothers
ScienceDaily (Apr. 28, 2010) ? Professor Ravinder Barn and Dr Vicki Harman from the Centre for Criminology and Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London are carrying out research into white mothers of mixed-race children. It is part of a wider study of mixed-race children and young people that has spanned more than two decades.
Parenting ...
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Posted on 11 March 2010. Tags: 50 Cent, African Media, African Role Models, Black Media, Black Role Models, Ligali, Nyansapo, Snoop dogg, podcasts, radio
Yesterday I received an email from the ligali website. Ligali describes itself as a Pan Africanist human rights Organisation. Ligali Often send me their updates and newsletters, which depending on whether I have a moment to myself I read and digest or sadly leave them to quickly disappear in the the tides of messages in ...
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Posted on 11 March 2010. Tags: African Health, black Health, black donors, ethnic minority donrs, organ donors, transplants
Actor Wil Johnson joins forces with transplant patients in new TV Campaign to encourage more Black donors
Established actor, Wil Johnson has joined forces with NHS Blood and Transplant to lend further support to a new campaign designed to increase the number of people from BME communities on the NHS Organ Donor Register.
The actor features alongside ...
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Posted on 17 February 2010. Tags: BBC, Bill Morris, Black Leaders, City and Guilds of London Institute, Economic and Social Affairs Committee of the European Union, Handsworth Technical College, House of Lords, Jamaica, Order of Jamaica, RSA, Transport and General Workers Union, black peers, ndependent Broadcasting Authority
Bill Morris was born in Bombay, Jamaica in 1938 and lived with his parents (his mother was a domestic science teacher, his father a part-time policeman) in a small rural village, Cheapside, Manchester. He was educated at nearby Mizpah School where his ambition was to play cricket for the West Indies.
Bills plans to attend a ...
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Posted on 16 February 2010. Tags: Artists, Earthquake, Haiti disaster, Help Haiti
Call for submission open to poets, writers, journalists, bloggers and graphic artists from all backgrounds and origins. We invite you to write in solidarity for Haiti. You can send us poems, song lyrics, short stories, opinion pieces, drawings, paintings or photographs. The work must be about or inspired by Haiti, its people and its culture.
The ...
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Posted on 25 March 2009. Tags: African American, Black Men, Community, Eric Holder, John Ridley, Media, Michael Steele, Obama, Personalities, Politics, Richard Parsons, University
Blogger John Ridley points out that whilst the President of the worldsmost powerful country enjoys cosy nights on comfy chatshows, and other African American high flyers like Eric Holder, Michael Steele and Richard Parsons are making headlines the situation is considerably worse for the average African American male.
My response to this is, "Yeah, tell us something ...
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Posted on 20 March 2009. Tags: Back to Black, Events, London, Music, Nigel B
Bank Holiday Sat 11 April 2009
The Specialists, Londons No1 Raving Promoters Cordially Invite Real Ravers To The Double Birthday Celebration Of Nigel B & Jon Junior From Special Touch Urban Street Sound..
This Will Be Taking Place At The Plush & Exclusive China Palace, 2 Western Gateway,
Royal Victoria Dock North E16 1DR..
(off Tidal Basin Rd, which ...
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Posted on 16 March 2009. Tags: African Civilisation, African history, Arsinoe, Black Egypt, Cleopatra, Egypt
Cleopatra, the last Egyptian Pharaoh, renowned for her beauty, was part African, says a BBC team which believes it has found her sister's tomb.
Queen Cleopatra was a descendant of Ptolemy, the Macedonian general who ruled Egypt after Alexander the Great.
But remains of the queen's sister Princess Arsinoe, found in Ephesus, Turkey, indicate that her mother ...
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Posted on 12 March 2009. Tags: Africa, Education, Food, History, News, Orphans, Students, biofuels, farming, poverty, rice, senegal
Senegal-Bonus for rice farmers
For Senegalese rice farmers like Pape Alioune Seck the food crisis is a blessing in disguise in a country that until recently imported three-quarters of this staple from Asia."Two years ago, the Senegalese rediscovered rice from the river valley," said the 32-year-old rice farmer.
The change is answering the dreams of the domestic ...
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Posted on 11 March 2009. Tags: APU, Africa, African Progress Union, Black Britain, Black Doctors, Edinburg University, Health, History, London, Paddington, St Marys college, Trinidad, alcindor
John Alcindor (1873-1924) was a physician who was instrumental in the formation of the African Progress Union (APU). He was born in Trinidad and attended St Mary's College, a private school, in Port of Spain. Alcindor won one of the four Island Scholarships to attend medical school at Edinburgh University, Scotland from which he graduated ...
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Posted on 28 February 2009. Tags: Black, Education, History, Racism, Teachers, hidden history, race, schools
I recently found a blog of a black teacher from London. She seemed opposed to the idea that black history could solve some of the under achievement problems in inner cities.
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