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RSS FeedHaiti: The Traditional Predators
2006-09-11, Issue 269
In a series of alerts in 2004 we examined media coverage of events surrounding the military coup that forced Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide into exile on February 29, 2004....
Haiti: Shocking Lancet Study: 8,000 Murders, 35,000 Rapes and Sexual Assaults
2006-09-06, Issue 268
A shocking new report in the British medical journal the Lancet on human rights abuses in Haiti finds that 8,000 people were murdered and 35,000 women and girls raped during the U.S.-backed coup regime that followed Jean Bertrand Aristide. Those resp...
Middle-East: A genocide is taking place in Gaza
2006-09-05, Issue 268
A genocide is taking place in Gaza. This morning, 2 September, another three citizens of Gaza were killed and a whole family wounded in Beit Hanoun. This is the morning reap, before the end of day many more will be massacred. An average of eight Pale...
Middle-East: Always the victim - Israel's present wars
2006-09-06, Issue 268
In the Israeli discourse, Israel has always been the innocent victim of vicious aggression from its neighbors. This perception of reality has only intensified with its two recent wars - against the Palestinians in Gaza and against Lebanon. On this vi...
New Orleans: The first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina
2006-08-30, Issue 267
On the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina we speak with Jed Horne, an editor at the New Orleans Times-Picayune and author of "Breach of Faith."Horne says, "Louisiana is part of the old south...The mayor is a Democrat but could probably be called ...
New Orleans: For Whom is New Orleans Being Rebuilt?
2006-08-30, Issue 267
A year after Hurricane Katrina hit, only about half of New Orleans' population of 450,000 has returned. Many of those unable to come back are poor and African-American, drastically altering the demographics of a city that used to be two-thirds black...
US: AIDS in Black America
2006-08-30, Issue 267
George W. Bush - the master of fabricated distractions-as with the false pretense invasion of Iraq-has turned the national television news media away from the United States. So it was a sobering reversal of direction to watch ABC's August 24th Primet...
USA: Black History Museum To Have a Story for All
2006-08-23, Issue 266
The future National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC will fight the tendency not to dwell on slavery and other negative events because these experiences are often essential to African American culture. It will also pro...
Africa: AU Mulls Citizenship for Slave Kin
2006-07-24, Issue 265
African and black American leaders meeting this week (July 20) debated an unusual proposal to spur investment and interest in the continent - securing African citizenship for American descendants of Africans taken away as slaves. The idea came out of...
Liberia: Letters to Firestone highlights abuses
2006-07-26, Issue 265
To mark Liberia’s Independence Day, Liberian-Americans and concerned consumers from 36 states are joining Friends of the Earth, International Labor Rights Fund, Institute for Policy Studies, TransAfrica Forum and other members of the Stop Firestone C...
US: Ebon Run
2006-07-26, Issue 265
"The Ebon Run" is the Black-oriented human-rights magazine that allows the people themselves to write their own articles in their own words and have them distributed to the people. It is YOUR magazine to use to get the word out regarding vital news a...
Brazil: Lula calls for cooperation
2006-07-17, Issue 264
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for greater ties between Africa and Brazil, as well as greater reform efforts at the United Nations, at the Second Conference of Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora. The conference, held in ...
Global: Discussing Africa's underdevelopment
2006-07-10, Issue 263
As Africans -- especially those of us who live in the West -- we are uncomfortable with our continent's state of underdevelopment in economic growth and human security. And so it is that wherever there is a gathering of Africans, the conversation is ...
Ghana: Project launched to welcome Diaspora Africans to the Motherland
2006-07-11, Issue 263
The Ghanaian Minister for Tourism and Diasporean affairs, Hon. Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey, addressed a special briefing session last Friday (July 7) to launch an initiative for the year 2007 to “heal and reconcile” relations between Africans at home and a...
UK: Community groups prepare to counter bicentenary gov't propaganda
2006-07-11, Issue 263
Community Groups met last Friday (July 7) to discuss strategies to counter what is perceived as government ‘propaganda’ plans for the 2007 Bicentenary to 'dishonour' the memory of African people who fought for their freedom and resisted enslavement. ...
UK: Dumped girl 'trafficking victim'
2006-07-10, Issue 263
A heavily-pregnant teenager was found abandoned in Sheffield in what police described as a "shocking and tragic" case of people trafficking. The 16-year-old Kenyan girl was dumped on the city's streets after being held captive and forced into prostit...
USA: New push succeeding for slave reparations
2006-07-11, Issue 263
Advocates who say black Americans should be compensated for slavery and its Jim Crow aftermath are quietly chalking up victories and gaining momentum. Fueled by the work of scholars and lawyers, their campaign has morphed in recent years from a fring...
Ghana: President Kufuor leaves for the UK, Brazil
2006-07-05, Issue 262
President Kufuor will attend the plenary session of the Second conference of Intellectuals from Africa and the Diaspora to be held in Salvador. The conference themed "The Diaspora and Africa Renaissance" is a follow up to the first conference held in...
UK: Diaspora and development day to tackle African job creation
2006-07-03, Issue 262
Whilst Tony Blair and his celebrity cohorts sing the familiar tune of ‘aid for Africa,’ the African Diaspora in the UK are looking at more sustainable options for eradicating poverty on the continent. AFFORD will focus on job creation at its annual e...
Ghana: Football highlights African divide
2006-06-28, Issue 261
Although some of the educated Ghanaians who left to make their fortune abroad, are coming home, the Minister of Tourism and Diaspora Relations is keen to tempt many more back. Those who do come find themselves relatively well-off compared with their ...
UK: Black academics flying in from USA to present research papers
2006-06-28, Issue 261
On the eve of the fifth annual conference staged by the Black Colloquium, an organisation that promotes African centred learning, a committee member said that the establishment of a black university in the UK is crucial to promote African centred lea...
UK: Black children 'more likely to be expelled from school'
2006-06-26, Issue 261
Black children are more likely to be thrown out of school for bad behaviour than their white classmates, according to research to be released this week. But a Department for Education study found pupils from black Caribbean and black African families...
UK: Black UK cops overlooked
2006-06-28, Issue 261
Lee Jasper, an advisor on race and policing matters to London Mayor Ken Livingstone, questioned why "premium secondments" were not directly offered to officers from within the diaspora. The recruitments - jointly funded by the United Kingdom and Jama...
UK: Pastor brought Africans to UK illegally to build himself a luxury house
2006-06-28, Issue 261
A pastor from South Africa living on the Isle of Man who brought Africans to the UK illegally to work for as little as £1.36 an hour to build himself a luxury house received a six - month jail sentence, suspended for two years last week....
USA: Black group against earned immigrant legalization
2006-06-28, Issue 261
It's not just conservative white Americans that are against the Senate's immigration reform plan that would grant earned legalization to millions of undocumented migrants. A group calling themselves simply 'Choose Black America' has emerged to oppose...
USA: Diaspora blacks appreciate 'black power', but not US
2006-06-28, Issue 261
Now that the 40th anniversary of Stokely Carmichael’s changing the direction, tempo and agenda of the civil-rights movement by chanting the phrase “Black Power!” in Greenwood, Mississippi has passed with scarcely a notice from black folks, perhaps it...
Global: Black people in Prague and the work of Humanitas Afrika
2006-06-19, Issue 260
"Don’t care where you come from, As long as you’re a black man, you’re an African. Don’t mind your nationality, you have got the identity, of an African," - Peter Tosh. According to Jarka Halkova "before 1945 most Czechoslovak citizens had never even...
UK: Equalities Review slammed for criticising race campaign groups
2006-06-19, Issue 260
London Mayor Ken Livingstone joined voices of dissent among black community groups who have slammed the Equalities Review- the government’s far reaching report into anti-discrimination, public policy and disadvantage....
Africa: Africa in Oxford
2006-06-21, Issue 260
Oxford African Refugees and Families Development Community (OARFDC) is a developing not-for-profit group with a main focus on supporting refugees and Asylum Seekers based in Oxford. The group has produced a bilingual (English/French) newsletter call...
Africa: From brain drain to brain circulation
2006-06-12, Issue 259
In the 1960s and 1970s, the flow of scientists, engineers and medical personnel from developing to industrialised nations was thought to have almost entirely negative consequences for the source countries. Recently, there has been growing emphasis on...
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