Posted on 06 August 2011. Tags: Capitalism, Democracy, Politics
Democracy is Overrated
Why every developing nation, from Iraq to Africa, needs economic freedom before political freedom
By Oliver Harriehausen
What does a developing nation need to become prosperous? International politics is dedicated to this question, and is usually answered when rich Western governments patronizingly announce a) what makes their country special, and b) why the poor countries ...
Posted in Business, Colonialism, Finance, Politics
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 ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Caribbean, Community, Education, Europe, Law and Order, Men, News, Politics, Racism, Students
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 ...
Posted in Africa, Books, Caribbean, Colonialism, Community, Education, Europe, Men, Military, Politics, Racism, Students, The Americas, Women
Posted on 29 May 2011. Tags: African American, American South, Bible Belt, Church, Georgia, Mississippi, Religion, black church, slaves
The Black Belt is a Region of the Southern United States. Although the term originally described the Prairies and dark soil of Central Alabama and Northeast Mississippi, it has long been used to describe a broad Agricultural Region in the American South characterized by a history of Plantation Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century, and a ...
Posted in African American, Black History, Politics, Religion, Slavery, The Americas, Women
Posted on 14 April 2011. Tags: Newcastle, Politicians, Politics
Chi Onwurah, MP
Labour MP for Newcastle Central. Entered Parliament May 6th General Election 2010.
Chinyela 'Chi' Onwurah was born in Newcastle in 1965. She attended Kenton School before studying Electrical Engineering, graduating from Imperial College in 1987. Ms Onwurah worked in hardware and software management, product management, market development and strategy for a variety of companies ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Community, Politics, Women
Posted on 14 April 2011. Tags: Conservative, David Cameron, David Lammy, Education, Oxford University
The Prime Minister , David Cameron this week criticised Oxford University for only admitting One black student in 2010, a figure Oxford University dispute,
Mr Cameron was answering questions from members of the public at a "PM Direct" event in Harrogate in North Yorkshire.
"I saw figures the other day that showed that only one black person ...
Posted in Africa, Black Britain, Caribbean, Community, Education, News, Politics
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 ...
Posted in African American, Black Britain, Black History, Community, Education, Europe, Politics, Racism, Students, The Americas
Posted on 14 October 2010. Tags: BHM, Black Britons, Black History Month, Caribbean Aircrew, Military, RAF, Senegalese, Soldiers, WW1, WW2, Walter Tull, schools
by P Gregory: Owner Editor of the Black Presence Website.
So Black History month 2010 is upon us, and as I sit here and take a breather after working hard to get the website to this state of readiness, I wonder how long it will be before the mud starts flying?
Black History Month, is at best ...
Posted in Africa, Black History, Black History Month, Education, Europe, Military, Politics, Racism, War
Posted on 10 October 2010. Tags: Adelaide Hall, Black British History, Black Britons, Black Londoners, Blitz, Britains Black Community, Dr Harold Moody, E.I Ekpenyon, Elizabeth Welch, Esther Bruce, Ken (Snake Hips) Johnson, Learie Constantine, Mother Country, Stephen Bourne, The Home Front, Una Marson, WW11, WW2, black soldiers
Black British History went through something of a coming out party in the late 1990's and early naughties. Real interest arose in the contributions of Black people in Britain and The Internet brought forth a whole plethora of sites and snippets of information all with the aim of finally setting the history books straight.
However, ...
Posted in Arts, Black Britain, Black History, Blackpresence Supports, Books, Community, Education, Europe, News, Politics, Racism, Women
Posted on 07 October 2010. Tags: Any Means Neccesary, Malcolm X
http://malcolmxfiles.blogspot.com/
"Recently when I was blessed to make a religious pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca where I met many people from all over the world, plus spent many weeks in Africa trying to broaden my own scope and get more of an open mind to look at the problem as it actually is, one ...
Posted in Africa, African American, Black History, Black History Month, Education, Politics, Racism, The Americas, Video
Posted on 04 October 2010. Tags: African history, Black British, Black History, Black History Month, Black people in Britain, Pan african
As it's Black History month in October here in the U.k a question has been raised as to the relevance of BHM. I have outlined my feelings in Black history Month, why we still need it. However, I want to know how other people feel about it. I asked Toyin Agbetu, founder of ...
Posted in Africa, Black Blog Posts, Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Black Writing, Caribbean, Education, Events, Politics
Posted on 26 September 2010. Tags: CLR James, Cricket, Manchester Guardian, The black Jacobins, Trinidad
CLR (Cyril Lionel RobertJames was a Marxist writer, political commentator, and Cricket lover. One of his most famous works is "The Black Jacobins"; a biography of "Tousaint Louverture" the Haitian Revoloutionary. Born in Trinidad, he attended the Queen's Royal College on the island before becoming a cricket journalist and also writing fiction. In 1932, ...
Posted in Black History, Black History Month, Black Writing, Books, Caribbean, Education, Politics, Slavery
Posted on 23 September 2010. Tags: African Hair, Afro, Afro Wig, Black Hair, Oprah Winfrey, Solange Knowles, black women, dark skinned, light skinned, skin colour, slave
This is a Contributed Article by Minna Salami from
http://www.msafropolitan.com/
I like the perspective that India.Arie and Akon have in 'I am not my hair'.It's not a new song, most of you have heard it, danced to it, chanted it, maybe even as a spiritual practice of sort!
Jokes aside, a very powerful message often goes missed in ...
Posted in Africa, Beauty & Fashion, Black History, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Education, Politics, Racism, Slavery, Women
Posted on 21 September 2010. Tags: Alderman, Battersea, Black Politicians, Councillor, John Richard Archer, Liverpool, Politicans
John Richard Archer was Britain's first black Mayor. He was also the first black person to hold Civic Office in Britain as Councillor, Alderman and then
mayor.
Archer was born in Liverpool in 1836 to a Barbadian father and an Irish mother. He settled in Battersea in London around 1890 with his black Canadian wife, there they ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Caribbean, Education, Men, Politics
Posted on 20 September 2010. Tags: Baroness amos, Black Politicians, British peers, Guyana, Labour Party, Valerie Amos
Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos, PC (born 13 March 1954), was a British Labour Party politician and life peer, she served as Leader of the House of Lords and Lord President of the Council.
Valerie Ann Amos, Baroness Amos, PC (born 13 March 1954), is a British
Labour Party politician and life peer, served as Leader of ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Caribbean, Community, Europe, Politics, The Americas, Women
Posted on 16 September 2010. Tags: Bernie Grant, Black Politicians, European Parliament, Guyana, Haringey, Politics, Tottenham
The Late Bernie Grant was Britain's foremost black spokesman, a champion of social and racial justice, and a pioneer for diversity.
Born in Guyana, and resident in Britain since 1963, Bernie Grant worked as a British Railways clerk,he was also National Union of Public Employees area officer, and as a partisan of the Black Trade Unionists ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Caribbean, Community, Education, Europe, Men, Politics, Racism, Slavery
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, ...
Posted in Arts, Black Britain, Black History, Black Writing, Blackpresence Supports, Books, Community, Education, Europe, Law and Order, News, Politics, Racism, Students, Women
Posted on 14 September 2010. Tags: Black History, Bristol, History Lessons, KS3, Liverpool, London, Slavery, Teachers, Teachers TV, Tony Warner
There has been a Black Presence in the British Isles since Roman time. In more recent Centuries the black presence is well documented should you care to look for it.
Teachers TV offers this Introductory video, which you can download from their site to start you in your investigations.
Historian Tony Warner explains how the ...
Posted in Africa, Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Education, Politics, Slavery
Posted on 23 August 2010. Tags: Arabs, Blacks in Port Cities, Lascars, Liverpool, South Shields, Yemeni, seamen
Black Britons - Race Riots in South Shields
The first race riots to take place in Britain were in South Shields (Tyneside). A number of Arab and Somali seamen had settled there in the 1860's, and theses populations were added to by West African and West Indian Seamen who settled in North shields before the First ...
Posted in Africa, Black Britain, Community, Europe, Law and Order, Men, Middle East, Politics, Racism
Posted on 25 July 2010. Tags: Black People, Canada, United States, miscegenation, mixed race, race mixing
Couple Were Deported - S.O. 5 Apr. 1913 p8, originally uploaded by snap-happy1.
A Mixed Race Couple were Deported to the United States from Canada, in part of anti-Miscegenation laws. 1913
Posted in Black History, Community, Politics, Racism, The Americas, Women
Posted on 13 June 2010. Tags: Blacks in WW1, French Army, POW, Prisoner, Senegalese, WW1, black soldiers
"Die Farbiger", originally uploaded by drakegoodman.
A coloured French soldier (Troupes de Marine), most likely Senegalese is singled out to have his photograph taken with a Uhlan NCO and military official. Many of the Senegalese and other colonial troops were in the Troupes de Marine and were reported to have fought with incredible valour and great ...
Posted in Africa, Education, Europe, Men, Politics, War
Posted on 13 June 2010. Tags: African Trioops, French soldiers, Senegalese Soldiers, The Great War, WW1, World War 1, black soldiers
Three French Prisonniers de Guerre / Landwehr Inftr Regt Nr 120, originally uploaded by drakegoodman.
Three French Prisonniers de Guerre / Landwehr Inftr Regt Nr 120
Letter on reverse (below) with admin stamp from Landwehr-Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 120 and postage cancelled 8.6.1918 at an unspecified location.
Three French Prisonniers de Guerre, two of whom are Senegalese 'colonials'.
In late 1915 ...
Posted in Africa, Europe, Men, Military, Politics, War
Posted on 13 June 2010. Tags: African soldiers, African troops, French Army, Great war, Senegalese Soldiers, WW1, Western Front
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Posted on 02 May 2010. Tags: Black Politics, Black votes, Go to the ant, Isaac Carter, Martin Lewis, Money saving expert, North London, Tottenham, Website collaboration, financial advice, managing money, money saving tips
'Go to the ant', is a Simple but effective guide for day-to-day money management. Inspired by Martin Lewis's (money experts) quick wit and mind challenging money saving ideas, family man and entrepreneur Isaac Carter thought it was time to embark on a new journey. This journey
would consist of giving the people around him key money ...
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