Posted on 15 September 2011. Tags: Africans, Libya, Libyans, Tawergha, War
Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr., reacting to reports in The Wall Street Journal has called for an investigation by the International Criminal Court into the reported killings of Black Libyans in the city of Tawergha.
Rep. Jackson also tells The Black Star News he will ask that U.S. assistance for reconstruction and transition to democracy in Libya be conditional. The Wall Street ...
Posted in Africa, Black History, Men, Middle East, Politics, Racism, Women
Posted on 15 September 2011. Tags: Apostasy, Islam, Khartoum, Sudan
129 People Charged with Apostasy in South Khartoum: Maximum Sentence is the Death Penalty
(14 September 2011) On 29 July 2011, 150 people were arrested by police in Hay Mayo, South Khartoum. All are members of the Hausa ethnic group and from Darfur. While 21 individuals (children and the elderly) were immediately released, 129 were subsequently ...
Posted in Africa, Community, Religion
Posted on 14 September 2011. Tags: Birmingham, Jamani, Jamma, Panorama, Trinidad, UK, culture, lbands, pan, steelpans, tobago, trini
The Birmingham school of Pan founded and Managed byJamma gives the youngsters a chance to do a lot of team work, also gives the parents in the community a chance to get involved, playing pan, percussion instruments, making food & Costumes for the band. bringing the True culture of the Steelbands ofTrinidad and Tobago to ...
Posted in Black History, Education, Environment, Music
Posted on 12 September 2011. Tags: Black Athletes, Black Canadians, Canada, Harry Jerome, Henry Jerome, Olympics
Henry "Harry" Winston Jerome, OC (September 30, 1940 – December 7, 1982) was a Canadian track and field runner. He was the Grandson of John Howard, a Railway Porter who represented Canada in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, he moved to North Vancouver at age 12. In 1970 he was made an ...
Posted in Black History, Business, Community, Men, Sports, The Americas
Posted on 12 September 2011. Tags: Bondu, Niagra, Pierpont, black Loyalists, senegal, slave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pierpoint
Richard Pierpoint (Senegal 1744 - Canada 1838), also known as Black Dick and Captain Dick, was born about 1744 in Bondu, Senegal.
When he was about sixteen he was captured and sold as a Slave. He survived the crossing of the Atlantic and was sold in New York to a British Officer named Pierpoint. It was ...
Posted in Africa, Black Britain, Black History, Military, The Americas, War
Posted on 09 September 2011. Tags: African American Actors, Black British, Marxist, Negro spirituals, Robeson, Rutgers
Paul Leroy Robeson (April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American concert singer (bass-baritone), recording artist, athlete and actor who became noted for his political radicalism and activism in the Civil Rights Movement.
Robeson was the first major concert star to popularize the performance of Negro Spirituals.
He was the first Black actor of the ...
Posted in African American, Black History, Black History Month, Entertainment, Men, Movies, Politics, Racism
Posted on 06 August 2011. Tags: Digital, Events, Migrants, blunkett, manzoor, winder
E-Migration: Migrants in the Digital Age
RSA on 25th October at 6.30 pm
Immigration used to involve packing an entire life into a suitcase and moving to a new country for good. Now, with modern communications and transport, it is far more fluid and dynamic. Modern migrants need not lose contact with their old homes; they can ...
Posted in Africa, Black Britain, Black History, Community, Education, Europe, Events
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 05 August 2011. Tags: African American Tennis stars, Arthur Ashe, Black Tennis Players
Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was a professional Tennis player, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. During his career, he won three Grand Slam Titles, putting him among the best ever from the United States.
Ashe, an African American, is also remembered for his efforts to further Social Causes.
Tired of ...
Posted in Africa, African American, Black History, Sports, Tennis
Posted on 04 August 2011. Tags: American Imperialism
American Imperialism is a term referring to the political, economic, military and cultural influence of the United States. The concept of an American Empire was first popularized in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War of 1898 and the annexation of the Philippines.
Thomas Jefferson, in the 1780s, awaited the fall of the Spanish empire: “… till ...
Posted in African American, Black Britain, Colonialism, Racism, The Americas
Posted on 03 August 2011.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_separatism
Black Separatism is a movement to create separate institutions for people of African descent in societies historically dominated by whites, particularly in the United States. Black separatists also often seek a separate homeland. Black separatists generally think that black people cannot advance in a society dominated by a white majority.
In his discussion of black nationalism ...
Posted in Black History
Posted on 30 July 2011.
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/07/27
"US Wealth Gap Reflects Racism's Legacy"
Published on Wednesday, July 27, 2011 by The Rachel Maddow Show
Posted in African American, Colonialism, Racism
Posted on 27 July 2011. Tags: African American, Black Hair, Hair, Juliette Samuel, NAHA, biracial, butters, hair oil, natural hair care
Black Hair Care – Caring for Biracial Hair
By Juliette Samuel
Biracial Hair Care Tips
Every day, our world gets smaller. Not in the sense that the Earth is shrinking in size, but in terms of cultural and racial borders. Because we are able to travel more, we are exposed to many other cultures…and the opportunity to fall ...
Posted in Beauty & Fashion, Black Britain, Caribbean, Community, Education, Health, Lifestyle, Men, Women
Posted on 27 July 2011. Tags: Aquitted, Courts, Covent Garden, Jeffery Morat, Murat, Murder, Old Bailey, William Bosham, black constable, negro, thomas Latham
When searching the Records for The evidence of Early Black settlers in Britain. Evidence is to be found everywhere. It just needs searching out. the Old Bailey Website is an excellent source of records for evidence of Black people, living in Britain before the 20th Century.
Here are some examples.
Black people in the Old Bailey
William Bosham ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Education, Europe, Law and Order, Men
Posted on 21 July 2011.
http://clutchmagonline.com/2011/06/is-hollywood-courting-slavery/
Is Hollywood Courting Slavery?
Thursday Jun 16, 2011 – by Black Voices
— Slave stories might become the new 'Black' in Hollywood.
Today, the Shadow And Act film blog revealed that Paris-based Other Angle Pictures picked up a French slavery comedy for international distribution. ‘Case Départ’ is scheduled for a July 6 release in France and with the ...
Posted in Africa, African American, Arts, Black History, Caribbean, Colonialism, Entertainment, Media, Racism, Slavery, The Americas, Women
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 ...
Posted in Black History, Black Writing, Colonialism, Community, Education, Europe, Slavery, Students
Posted on 04 July 2011. Tags: Caribbean, Film Festival, London, Movies, film
This year the Caribbean UK Film Festival 2011, hosted by actor Geff
Frances and Charles Thompson MBE founder of the Screen Nation Awards,
will explore the themes of fashion, music, sport and culture with a
special feature honouring the lifetime achievements of actor Earl
Cameron CBE - not to be missed!
You are encouraged to come dressed in your own ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History Month, Caribbean, Entertainment, Movies, Video
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: ...
Posted in African American, Black Britain, Black History, Black History Month, Caribbean, Community, Education, Europe, Health, Men, Military, Racism, Science, Students, The Americas, War, Women
Posted on 01 July 2011.
http://hubpages.com/hub/bloodlines
"Credo Mutwa, the Official Historian of the Zulu Nation, told me how so many Black African leaders that were placed in Power after the Colonial Masters gave the Continent 'independence', came from the Bloodlines of African Kings and Queens who claimed to descend from the same 'Gods' as their White counterparts." -David Icke, "Tales from ...
Posted in Africa, Black Britain, Black History, Colonialism, Science, Slavery
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 22 June 2011. Tags: Blue Plaque, Camden, George Padmore, Pan african
Date: Tuesday 28 June
Venue: 22 Cranleigh Street, Camden, london NW11BD
Time: 1.00pm
Tube: Mornington Crescent, Euston
GEORGE PADMORE COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE
One of the most influential political thinkers of the 20th century is to be commemorated this summer with a heritage plaque in North London . Cranleigh Street in Camden will be the site of the capital’s latest blue plaque, ...
Posted in Africa, Black Britain, Black History, Blackpresence Supports, Community, Education, Events
Posted on 21 June 2011. Tags: CULTURE & COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE, Conference, communication, culture, language
CULTURE & COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
1st July 2011 / London
This one day conference will consider a number of issues which require consideration in order to be able to communicate effectively across cultures. Styles of communication can vary in several ways. Examples include the extent to which communication is implicit versus explicit, the extent ...
Posted in Black Britain, Community, Education, Events, Health
Posted on 21 June 2011. Tags: Angela Davis, Jailhouse lawyers, Mumia Abu Jamal, Prisoners
From death row in Pennsylvania, launch of a new book in the UK
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JAILHOUSE LAWYERS
PRISONERS DEFENDING PRISONERS v THE USA
By Mumia Abu-Jamal
Foreword by Angela Y. Davis,
Introduction by Selma James
Published by Crossroads Books
Price: £11.99 Free to Prisoners.
(See order form below.)
Donations welcome
to help cover costs.
Launch events in Manchester, Liverpool and London
Thursday 30 ...
Posted in African American, Black History, Books, Education, Entertainment, Men, Women
Posted on 20 June 2011. Tags: Academics, Black Professors, Brunell, Goulbourne, Leeds University, London, London Metropolitan, Nottingham, Osler, Racism, Universities
The Guardians Education Correspondent, Jessica Shepherd wrote at the end of May:
Call from leading black academics that an urgent culture change is needed at UK universities as figures reveal just 50 black British professors out of more than 14,000, and the number has barely changed in eight years, according to data from the Higher Education ...
Posted in Black Britain, Black History, Caribbean, Education, Europe, Job Vacancies, Men, News, Racism, Women