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June 2006

• A man says sorry to Africans for his slaver ancestor's deeds (BBC 23/6/2006)
• Courts must deal effectively with race hate crimes to deter racist aggressors (Black Britain 23/6/2006)
• Mugabe anger at church criticism (BBC 23/6/2006)
• Jamaica urged to act against rape (BBC 22/6/2006)
• World Cup: Ghana boss praises 'historic' win (BBC 22/6/2006)
• Race attack victim wants to die (BBC 22/6/2006)
• Upcoming conference on working with young black people aims to challenge stereotypes (Black Britain 22/6/2006)
• Renaissance of black self-organsation within the Labour Party (Blink 21/6/2006)
• Liberia: Charles Taylor Transferred to The Hague (AllAfrica 21/6/2006)
• Trade unions eager to forge ties with black communities to fight racism (Black Britain 20/6/2006)
• Woman is jailed for infecting lover with HIV (The Independent 20/6/2006)
• New black & minority ethnic education network being launched to take on the policy makers (Black Britain 19/6/2006)
• World Cup: Czech Republic 0-2 Ghana (BBC Sport 17/6/2006)
• Campaign launched to address racism in schools and under-achievement of black pupils (Black Britain 16/6/2006)
• Call to help black pupils achieve (BBC 16/6/2006)
• How inclusion fails black children (The Voice 16/6/2006)
• Soweto mothers march to remember (BBC 16/6/2006)
• S Africa marking Soweto uprising (BBC 16/6/2006)
• National Men's Health Week: Mental Health: Does cannabis and alcohol cause schizophrenia in black men? (Black Britain 16/6/2006)
• World Cup: England's blushes spared against brave Trinidad & Tobago (Caribbean Net News 16/6/2006)
• New guide on prostate cancer aims to raise awareness on increased risk to black men (Black Britain 15/6/2006)
• UK agrees to jail Charles Taylor (BBC 15/6/2006)
• PanAfrica: One Billion Tonnes of Southern Emissions to Be Cut By 2012 (AllAfrica 14/6/2006)
• National Men's Health Week: Mental Health: The black man's experience in the mental health system (Black Britain 14/6/2006)
• USA discover race link to breast cancer but UK still lacking data on ethnicity of sufferers (Black Britain 13/6/2006)
• World Cup: I can die happy, says Trinidad keeper Hislop (Caribbean Net News 13/6/2006)
• Get a handle on the knife problem. Another teenager stabbed to death (The Voice 12/6/2006)
• Another parent mourns ‘a good boy’ (The Voice 12/6/2006)
• National Men's Health Week: Mental Health: The Black Perspective (Black Britain 12/6/2006)
• National Men's Health Week: Mental Health: Why black men opt to suffer in silence with emotional stress (Black Britain 12/6/2006)
• Women have crucial role to play in reducing high rate of HIV among Africans in the UK (Black Britain 12/6/2006)
• Hip Hop Women Recount Abuse at Their Own Risk (Women's eNews 11/6/2006)
• Athletics: Powell equals 100m world record (BBC Caribbean 11/6/2006)
• Sudan accused of 'exporting war' (BBC 11/6/2006)
• Mandela, the statue without a home (The Independent 11/6/2006)
• World Cup: Limited TT hold Sweden in check (BBC Caribbean 10/6/2006)
• Zimbabwe's inflation steams ahead (BBC 9/6/2006)
• Cultural identity issues and racism to blame for black Caribbean pupil's lack of progress (Black Britain 9/6/2006)
• UK pressed to jail Charles Taylor (BBC 9/6/2006)
• World Cup: Football Fever has gripped Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean Times 9/6/2006)
• World Cup: Trinidad's Hislop ready to wait for World Cup chance (Caribbean Net News 9/6/2006)
• World Cup: Togo's fans angry at visa denial (BBC 9/6/2006)
• Haiti rejoins Caribbean Community (Caribbean Net News 9/6/2006)
• Athletics: Veteran Ottey claims comeback win at 46 (BBC Caribbean 9/6/2006)
• It's official: East Germany is no-go area for Black fans (Blink 8/6/2006)
• PanAfrica: Nations Wary of Closer Embrace With US (AllAfrica 8/6/2006)
• Obituary: Billy Preston - Soulful sideman to the Beatles and the Stones who earned solo fame (The Guardian 8/6/2006)
• Keyboard hero Billy Preston dies (BBC 7/6/2006)
• Charity investigated over advert encouraging writing by BME youth (The Voice 7/6/2006)
• World Cup Warm Up: England outclass Jamaica (Caribbean Net News 5/6/2006)
• Czechs beat Trinidad & Tobago 3-0 in friendly (Caribbean Net News 5/6/2006)
• Gospel Music is at an all time high in the UK (Blink 5/6/2006)
• Athletics: Ethiopian sets record (BBC 4/6/2006)
• Germany "safe for Black soccer fans" (Blink 1/6/2006)

May 2006

• Germany "safe for Black soccer fans" (Blink 1/6/2006)
• BBC pressed on racial equality targets (The Guardian 31/5/2006)
• British Black Music Month begins with Omar Workshop (Black Britain 31/5/2006)
• UN Security Council must permit use of force to protect civilians in Darfur (Black Britain 31/5/2006)
• Who is to blame for black on black youth crime? (Black Britain 30/5/2006)
• Somalis' struggle in the UK (BBC 30/5/2006)
• East Africa: Region Leads the Way As Continent Hooks Up to the Web (AllAfrica 30/5/2006)
• Africa cannot catch up until the west keeps to its deal (The Guardian 29/5/2006)
• Wales defeat Trinidad in World Cup warm up match (Caribbean Net News 29/5/2006)
• Kenyan public smoking ban starts (BBC 29/5/2006)
• Liberia's 'Iron Lady' visiting UK (BBC 29/5/2006)
• Real Hotel Rwanda manager urges action in Darfur (The Guardian 29/5/2006)
• Obituary: Desmond Dekker - Jamaican singer helped launch career of Bob Marley (The Guardian 27/5/2006)
• Reggae star Dekker dies at 64 (The Guardian 27/5/2006)
• Obituary: Desmond Dekker (BBC 26/5/2006)
• Reggae legend Desmond Dekker dies (BBC 26/5/2006)
• Row between 2 black politicians draws dividing line between Africans & West Indians in the UK (BBC Caribbean 26/5/2006)
• Black British author scoops book award for portraying children’s emotional dilemmas from a black perspective (Black Britain 26/5/2006)
• Kenya: Economy Booms As Growth Sets 10-Year Record (AllAfrica 26/5/2006)
• Witnesses see things differently at Mikey Powell trial (Blink 26/5/2006)
• 'My Bro Wasn't Violent’: Sister of Mikey Powell rebuffs police defence claims (The Voice 24/5/2006)
• No breakthrough yet in Alaneme murder inquiry (Blink 24/5/2006)
• Baseball honours 'Negro' stars at last (BBC 24/5/2006)
• Pressure to smash glass ceilings preventing Black members from becoming MPs (Blink 24/5/2006)
• Tutu regrets Zuma's trial legacy (BBC 24/5/2006)
• Rappers outraged by government advisor’s condemnation of rap music as “offensive and horrible” (Blink 24/5/2006)
• How the health department messed up a mental health consultation (Blink 24/5/2006)
• PanAfrica: Despite Debt Relief, Poor Nations Back in the Red (AllAfrica 23/5/2006)
• Court hears of excessive restraint against custody death man (Blink 23/5/2006)
• New guide may improve support services for families of black disabled children (Black Britain 23/5/2006)
• Cricket: Sarwan hands Windies dramatic win (BBC 23/5/2006)
• How Katherine Dunham Revealed Black Dance to the World (NY Times 23/5/2006)
• PanAfrica: Continent Asserts Its Collective Power At UN (AllAfrica 22/5/2006)
• Black men, Pakistani women fare worst in the UK job market (The Voice 22/5/2006)
• Black academics ready to tear down the racist walls of British universities (Black Britain 22/5/2006)
• India and China 'to boost Africa' (BBC 22/5/2006)
• Race riot killers jailed for life (The Guardian 22/5/2006)
• Shaka Zulu's brutality was exaggerated, says new book (The Guardian 22/5/2006)
• Oprah Winfrey book deal tops Clinton's $12m (The Guardian 22/5/2006)
• Youth charged with Kiyan murder (BBC 21/5/2006)
• On This Day: 1961: Freedom Riders spark Montgomery riots (BBC 21/5/2006)
• New Orleans re-elects Mayor Nagin (BBC 21/5/2006)
• Arsenal rejected �50m Henry bids (BBC 21/5/2006)
• Tony Blair is urging big business to do more to help save Africa from Aids (The Observer 21/5/2006)
• Nurse exodus leaves Kenya in crisis (The Observer 21/5/2006)
• Cricket: West Indies claim one-run victory over India (BBC Sport 20/5/2006)
• Bristol residents want city to apologise for its huge role in slave trade (The Voice 19/5/2006)
• Black and Asian fans told to ignore World Cup warnings (The Guardian 19/5/2006)
• Nigerians arrested at UK ministry (BBC 19/5/2006)
• Damilola accused brothers named (BBC 18/5/2006)
• The Harder They Come smashes box office records (The Voice 18/5/2006)
• 110,000 children in Sub-Saharan Africa to walk against hunger in May (Black Britain 18/5/2006)
• Athletics: Powell gets back world record but shares it with Gatlin (Caribbean Net News 18/5/2006)
• Publishers fail to sign black and Asian poets (The Guardian 17/5/2006)
• Book publishing apprentice scheme aims to promote black writing in the West Midlands (Black Britain 17/5/2006)
• Toxteth area of Merseyside was celebrating after winning its first official Black radio station (Blink 17/5/2006)
• UK to give �20 million to AU Mission in Sudan (Black Britain 17/5/2006)
• Columbus' legacy haunts the New World (Caribbean Net News 17/5/2006)
• Wailer with 52 children waits in vain for Marley's millions (The Guardian 16/5/2006)
• African growth prospects improve (BBC 16/5/2006)
• Nigerian-born Professor of Engineering becomes first African to receive prestigious award (Black Britain 16/5/2006)
• The woman who has the power to change Africa (The Independent 16/5/2006)
• SA's Zuma acquitted for rape but now facing corruption trial (The Voice 16/5/2006)
• Football: England vs Jamaica is a sell-out leaving thousands of fans struggling to find tickets (The Voice 16/5/2006)
• Queen should say sorry for slavery (New Nation 15/5/2006)
• Pay tribute to the late Lynden (New Nation 15/5/2006)
• Africa climate change 'could kill millions' (The Guardian 15/5/2006)
• PanAfrica: 72 Percent of Urban Dwellers Live in Slums, Says UN Official (AllAfrica 15/5/2006)
• New anthem to rally West Indian spirits (BBC Caribbean 15/5/2006)
• Pele returns to Britain on a sell-out book tour (The Observer 14/5/2006)
• USA: Desperate Republicans chase the black vote (The Observer 14/5/2006)
• Zulu virgins fight war of traditions (The Observer 14/5/2006)
• Mikey Powell died in police van, court told (Blink 12/5/2006)
• African Union parliament 'broke' (BBC 12/5/2006)
• Zimbabwe's inflation tops 1,000% (BBC 12/5/2006)
• Football World Cup's smallest team: Trinidad and Tobago (BBC Caribbean 11/5/2006)
• Slavery: Is it time for an apology? (The Independent 11/5/2006)
• Toddler’s racist tendencies influenced by society, says voluntary organisation (Black Britain 10/5/2006)
• Mother of race-killing victim tells of her loss and anguish (The Independent 10/5/2006)
• Local election results show black voters mean business (Black Britain 9/5/2006)
• Pride Magazine is celebrating 15 years on the news stands (Blink 9/5/2006)
• Football World Cup: Walcott & Lennon in England squad (BBC 8/5/2006)
• Football World Cup: Trinidad and Tobago's 'Soca Warriors' ready to rumble (Caribbean Net News 8/5/2006)
• Barbados economy achieves unprecedented growth (Caribbean Net News 8/5/2006)
• Black school exclusions - How 198 Gallery turns failure into success (Black Britain 8/5/2006)
• S Africa's Zuma cleared of rape (BBC 8/5/2006)
• Trial of 10 police officers charged in connection with the death of Mikey Powell begins in Leicester (Blink 7/5/2006)
• Bristol agonises over slavery apology (The Observer 7/5/3006)
• Children as young as three may already be racists, says Ouseley (The Independent 7/5/2006)
• BNP reaps reward of targeting boroughs (The Independent 6/5/2006)
• 'BNP played on prejudices with lies' (The Independent 6/5/2006)
• Will BNP election gains last? (BBC 5/5/2006)
• BNP: We're on our way (The Independent 5/5/2006)
• BNP thanks Labour minister for publicity (The Guardian 5/5/3006)
• Congo's tragedy: the war the world forgot (The Independent 5/5/2006)
• Guinea Bissau: Famine Warning Issued in South (AllAfrica 5/5/2006)
• Why it takes a television series to draw attention to a real-life human drama (The Guardian 5/5/3006)
• Sudan: UN rights chief paints grim picture of worsening Darfur crisis (UN News Centre 5/5/2006)
• UN-backed fund launched to help Africa preserve cultural and natural heritage (UN News Centre 5/5/2006)
• Forget the statistics, black entrepreneurs are doing well despite the odds, says Yearwood (Black Britain 5/5/2006)
• Obituary: Earl Woods - Father and teacher of Tiger Woods, whose golfing genius he spotted at an early age (The Guardian 5/5/3006)
• Bad night for Black representation (Blink 4/5/2006)
• Forum aims to correct distorted images of enslavement & to tell true story of resistance in 07 (Black Britain 4/5/2006)
• Tory leader says he wants more powerful voice for UK's BMEs (The Voice 4/5/2006)
• Football Association encouraging black support for the national team (The Voice 4/5/2006)
• South Africa: First Schools Get Connected to a New World of Learning (AllAfrica 4/5/2006)
• Top UN humanitarian aid official sounds alarm over world inaction on Darfur (UN News Centre 4/5/2006)
• Panadol given to Zimbabwe's Aids patients as life-saving drugs run out (The Independent 4/5/2006)
• Obituary: Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin: Ethiopia's poet and playwright of the common people (The Guardian 3/5/2006)
• Council of Black-led Churches pleads for black citizens to flex their political muscles on May 4 (Black Britain 3/5/2006)
• New arrest in Chris Alaneme murder case (Blink 3/5/2006)
• 50,000 converged on London's Trafalgar Square for a Love Music Hate Racism event (Blink 3/5/2006)
• Nigerian PhD student wins final of International Student Awards (Black Britain 3/5/2006)
• Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe threatens opposition with "fire and death" (The Voice 3/5/2006)
• New book claims that colonial Britain was anything but fair to Kenya's Masai people (The Guardian 3/5/2006)
• Mandela 'murder plotters' escape (BBC 3/5/2006)
• Darfur crisis puts Sudan top of 'failed states' list (The Independent 3/5/2006)
• Secret services target BMEs to protect the UK (The Voice 2/5/2006)
• Cameroon sees $5bn debt erased (BBC 2/5/2006)
• Somali boy executes dad's killer (BBC 2/5/2006)
• New study confirms odds are stacked against black people making it in film & TV industry (Black Britain 2/5/2006)
• Family of Brian Douglas prepare for twelfth vigil since he died in police custody (Black Britain 2/5/2006)
• Sudan: Despite Ongoing Peace Talks, Violence Worsens in Darfur (AllAfrica 1/5/2006)
• White 'ingratitude' worries Tutu (BBC 1/5/2006)
• DR Congo: Elections to Be Held On 30 July (AllAfrica 1/5/2006)
• African tribe descends on Newcastle for wedding rite (The Independent 1/5/2006)

Apr 2006

First Female PM for Jamaica - Guyanese singing legend Sol Raye dies - Zuma rape case continues - Black women face a double discrimination at work - Man cleared over Damilola murder - Charles Taylor in UN court - 25 Years after Brixton Riots - FIFA racism crackdown - Zimbabweans have 'shortest lives' - Bill Morris becomes life peer - First black TV anchor an inspiration in France - Muhammad Ali sells rights to name - June Pointer dies - Africa still suffers but SA booming - Warning on Darfur crises continue - Nigeria to pay off its debt - Civil Rights Author Florence Mars Dies - Christopher Alaneme murdered

• SA: Life imitates art as thief (tsotsi) returns stolen baby (The Guardian 28/4/2006)
• George Clooney urges action as Sudanese aircraft attack villages in Darfur (The Independent 27/4/2006)
• Black people are 'four times more likely to be murdered' (The Independent 27/4/2006)
• Police chief vows to bring racist killers to book (The Independent 27/4/2006)
• Rapper Snoop Dogg freed on bail (BBC 27/4/2006)
• South Africa's latest precious export - the art of Gerard Sekoto (The Independent 27/4/2006)
• Low numbers of British African-Caribbeans entering medical profession must be tackled at various levels (Black Britain 27/4/2006)
• Cricket: Lara regains West Indies captaincy (Caribbean Net News 27/4/2006)
• In Jamaica, where politicians are openly homophobic & song lyrics incite violence against gay people, coming out can be fatal (The Guardian 27/4/2006)
• Unite Against Fascism action against the BNP (Blink 27/4/2006)
• British government accused of freezing aid to Montserrat (Caribbean Net News 27/4/2006)
• How the killing of Christopher Alaneme is a shocking insight into racist Britain (The Independent 26/4/2006)
• Black teenager stabbed to death in apparent racist attack (The Guardian 26/4/2006)
• Darfur malnutrition 'rises again' (BBC 26/4/2006)
• Trevor Phillips says the black community has not done enough to escape from mental slavery (The Voice 26/4/2006)
• Zuma rape trial draws to a close (BBC 26/4/2006)
• Cameron to increase number of ethnic minority candidates (The Guardian 26/4/2006)
• UN Security Council authorizes European force in DR Congo (UN News Centre 25/4/2006)
• War shows no sign of abating in DR Congo (BBC 25/4/2006)
• Africa Malaria Day: The race to stop a child dying every 30 secs from malaria (Black Britain 25/4/2006)
• Images of resistance to slavery must be at the forefront of 2007 Bicentenary Commemoration (Black Britain 24/4/2006)
• Behind a facade of normality, Zimbabwe is visibly falling apart (The Guardian 24/4/2006)
• Obituary: Ellen Kuzwayo:Tireless campaigner for women's rights in apartheid South Africa (The Guardian 24/4/2006)
• Civil Rights Author Florence Mars Dies at 84 (Washington Post 24/4/2006)
• Award for Liberian green activist (BBC 24/4/2006)
• Women's groups angered by Zuma court case (Cape Times 24/4/2006)
• Zimbabwe rethink on white farmers (BBC 23/4/2006)
• Kenyan Limo edges Lel in London Marathon sprint finish (BBC 23/4/2006)
• New Orleans mayor faces run-off (BBC 23/4/2006)
• Saving Sarah: How your bone marrow could save a young bride's life (BBC Health 22/4/2006)
• Darfur relief operation weeks away from collapse, warns UN (The Guardian 22/4/2006)
• African pygmies tour Britain to highlight plight (The Independent 22/4/2006)
• Exposed: BNP's campaign of lies (The Independent 22/4/2006)
• Need for greater BME representation at Manchester City Council (The Voice 21/4/2006)
• UK Firefighters still fighting racism in the workplace (The Voice 21/4/2006)
• Darfur crisis is 'as bad as ever' (BBC 21/4/2006)
• Nigeria will pay off its debt, becoming the first African nation to settle with its official lenders (BBC 21/4/2006)
• New Orleans: Big business sees a chance for ethnic and class cleansing (The Guardian 20/4/2006)
• FA looks to attract BME youth to International matches (The Voice 20/4/2006)
• Thousands flee as Darfur violence spreads into Chad (BBC 20/4/2006)
• Oxfam seeks record �20m to fight East Africa drought (The Independent 20/4/2006)
• NUT wants to stamp out racism in schools but they must start from within, says black education group (Black Britain 20/4/2006)
• Legal firms that exclude Black lawyers risk being barred from government contracts (Blink 20/4/2006)
• Adyel Silva has the kind of face you see everywhere in Brazil except, until recently, on TV. Because Silva is black (Chicago Tribune 20/4/2006)
• Bill Morris defends rights of Jamaicans abroad (Jamaica Gleaner 19/4/2006)
• Missing: Black Leaders: Where are they in our communities? (The Voice 19/4/2006)
• Cameron's drive for women and minority candidates (The Guardian 19/4/2006)
• Jackson to make album in Bahrain (BBC 19/4/2006)
• 100s of black people locked away in mental health facilities while government fuddles mental health policy (The Voice 18/4/2006)
• Book about alleged British atrocities against Kenyan Mau Mau independence fighters wins US Pulitzer Prize (BBC 18/4/2006)
• New Marley bio for release in May (Jamaica Gleaner 18/4/2006)
• Bermuda may change marijuana policy (BBC Caribbean 18/4/2006)
• Nothing sweet about sugar reforms for Caribbean countries as EU compensation falls short (Black Britain 18/4/2006)
• Scramble for DR Congo's mineral wealth (BBC 17/4/2006)
• Anthony Walker's mother 'not ready to meet murderers' (The Guardian 17/4/2006)
• US: Inadequate Breast Cancer Screening for Black Women (Medpage Today 17/4/2006)
• 'Racist' assault alarms Germans (BBC 17/4/2006)
• BNP 'needs 5% swing to win 70 council seats' (The Guardian 17/4/2006)
• Boomtown Jo'burg rides the new gold rush (The Guardian 17/4/2006)
• Burundi lifts 34-year old curfew (BBC 14/4/2006)
• Rap star Megaman faces third murder trial (The Guardian 14/4/2006)
• Ethiopia: Govt Treatment Programme Brings Hope to Thousands (AllAfrica 13/4/2006)
• Football: Race charge for Brazilian player (BBC 13/4/2006)
• Into Africa: British Museum's reply to ownership debate (The Guardian 13/4/2006)
• Ethiopian Fossils fill gap in human lineage (BBC 13/4/2006)
• UK gives �22m to Zimbabwe to help fight Aids (The Guardian 13/4/2006)
• Football: Trinidad's 'Soca Warriors' name World Cup lineup (Caribbean Net News 13/4/2006)
• Council diggers moved in to demolish the last remaining Rastafarian squat in St Agnes Place today (Blink 13/4/2006)
• Profile: Professor Evan Duggan (Jamaica Gleaner 13/4/2006)
• Rice: my mother stood up to racism (The Scotsman 13/4/2006)
• Croydon Tories trump Labour in battle for black votes with festival pledge (The Voice 13/4/2006)
• UK wins appeal over ruling that meant failed asylum seekers could not be deported to Zimbabwe (BBC 12/4/2006)
• June Pointer, youngest of US group Pointer Sisters has died of cancer, aged 52 (BBC 12/4/2006)
• Black candidates should be able to stand in any area of the UK, says OBV (Black Britain 12/4/2006)
• Hailing British donation for Sudan, UN food agency urges more global aid (UN News Centre 12/4/2006)
• Football Racism: Santander fined for Eto'o abuse (BBC 12/4/2006)
• Cricket: Chanderpaul resigns as WI captain (BBC Caribbean 12/4/2006)
• Southwark Lib Dem Councillor quits party in race row (Blink 12/4/2006)
• First black TV anchor an inspiration in France (Access Atlanta 12/4/2006)
• Muhammad Ali sells rights to name (BBC 11/4/2006)
• Former TGWU boss Sir Bill Morris is among 23 new life peers (BBC 11/4/2006)
• East Africa Stock Markets to be Integrated by Year's End (AllAfrica 11/4/2006)
• Play winner imagines Africa at the cutting edge of technology (BBC 11/4/2006)
• BBC Comes under fire from black majority churches over Witch Child documentary (Black Britain 11/4/2006)
• Church shows way forward 25 years after Brixton riots (The Independent 11/4/2006)
• Why Jamaicans are over-represented in British Prisons (Black Britain 10/4/2006)
• Football: Jamaica National will be the official ticket agents for England v Jamaica (The Voice 10/4/2006)
• Football: Eto'o is target of more abuse (BBC 10/4/2006)
• Black women are stereotyped in British films, so it's a relief to find one who calls the shots (The Guardian 10/4/2006)
• Brown unveils Africa school funds (BBC 10/4/2006)
• Reggae star Jimmy Cliff was in town for the opening of theatre production The Harder They Come (The Voice 10/4/2006)
• Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Dennis and Stan struck off storm register (Caribbean Net News 10/4/2006)
• Zimbabweans have 'shortest lives' (BBC 8/4/2006)
• Watchdog seeks lost Africa wealth (BBC 8/4/2006)
• Fifa clarifies racism crackdown (BBC 8/4/2006)
• Did Brixton matter? Twenty-five years after the riots, what is the verdict? (BBC 7/4/2006)
• Officer cleared of racial intent over ape noises (The Guardian 7/4/2006)
• Teachers criticise judge for 'trivialising' racial abuse (The Guardian 7/4/2006)
• How schools deal with racism (BBC Education 7/4/2006)
• The Harder They Come, the musical (BBC Caribbean 7/4/2006)
• Black parents will be largely affected by new proposals to prosecute parents of excluded kids found loitering (Black Britain 7/4/2006)
• UN seeks East Africa drought aid (BBC 7/4/2006)
• Africa needs millions of nurses (BBC 7/4/2006)
• Sick Zambians overwhelm clinics as health care made free (BBC 7/4/2006)
• Youths face retrial over Damilola (BBC 6/4/2006)
• A replay of Iraq beckons in Darfur if we send in troops (The Guardian 6/4/2006)
• New faith website comes under fire from black churches for not doing its homework properly (Black Britain 6/4/2006)
• UN holds conference to discuss how African migrants can fill future labour shortages in Europe (Black Britain 6/4/2006)
• Family and friends demonstrate outside Plumstead police station over death of Somali in police raid (IRR 6/4/2006)
• Brace for another bad hurricane season say scientists (Caribbean Net News 6/4/2006)
• Italy explores disaster warning system for Caribbean (Caribbean Net News 6/4/2006)
• Global arms trade: Africa and the curse of the AK-47 (The Independent 5/4/2006)
• The legacy of the Brixton riots (BBC 5/4/2006)
• Award for Sierra Leone war novel (BBC 5/4/2006)
• BNP contests seat where racist killing of Anthony Walker took place (The Independent 5/4/2006)
• Black children being let down by failing academies (Black Britain 5/4/2006)
• Grenada's cocoa industry faces ruin, as crops remain unharvested (BBC Caribbean 5/4/2006)
• US lawmaker alleges police racism (BBC 5/4/2006)
• US Rap producer files for bankruptcy (BBC 5/4/2006)
• SA dismisses World Cup doubts (BBC 5/4/2006)
• SA's Zuma 'showered to avoid HIV' (BBC 5/4/2006)
• World community wants Taylor trial in Hague (The Guardian 5/4/2006)
• Brothers cleared of Damilola murder (The Guardian 4/4/2006)
• New Damilola trial is considered (BBC 4/4/2006)
• The dilemma facing Damilola jury (BBC 4/4/2006)
• Damilola Taylor: why so many mistakes? (Blink PR 4/4/2006)
• School learns lessons from Damilola's death (BBC 4/4/2006)
• Government to use black church leaders to reach Britain's black communities (Black Britain 4/4/2006)
• So what does TV think of Africa? (BBC 4/4/2006)
• Football Racism: Inter fined for Zoro abuse (BBC 4/4/2006)
• Single Market Lifts Off: Six West Indian nations adopt Caricom initiative (The Voice 4/4/2006)
• Caribbean nurses and teachers being exploited in UK (Caribbean Net News 4/4/2006)
• Alabama could lead way in expunging criminal records of people arrested for breaking racist laws (The Guardian 4/4/2006)
• Saturday last week thousands of black women celebrated their sisterhood at ‘In Celebrations of my Sisters’ (The Voice 4/4/2006)
• Despite oil wealth, most Angolans still wallow in poverty (BBC 4/4/2006)
• Charles Taylor is first of Africa's 'big men' to face trial in UN court (The Guardian 4/4/2006)
• Naked diplomat arrested in Uganda for adultery angers Rwanda (BBC 4/4/2006)
• S Africa's Zuma denies Aids risk (BBC 4/4/2006)
• Man cleared over Damilola murder (BBC 3/4/2006)
• Guyanese Singer Sol Raye To Be Laid To Rest In London (Hard Beat News 3/4/2006)
• Sister of Christopher Alder who died in police custody demands public inquiry (The Voice 3/4/2006)
• Niger halts BBC hunger coverage (BBC 3/4/2006)
• Black women face a double discrimination at work says TUC and EOC (Black Britain 3/4/2006)
• Leeds Racial Harrassment Project awarded government funding to help stamp out racism (Black Britain 3/4/2006)
• Thousands of Africans will be affected by new Immigration and Asylum Act (Black Britain 3/4/2006)
• Former Liberian President Charles Taylor set to appear at UN-backed war crimes court in Sierra Leone (BBC 3/4/2006)
• SA's Zuma testifies in rape case (BBC 3/4/2006)
• USA: Rape case highlights South's abiding divide (The guardian 3/4/2006)
• Jamaican referee among 23 selected by FIFA for World Cup 2006 (Caribbean Net News 3/4/2006)
• Guyanese singing legend Sol Raye dies (Starbroek News 1/4/2006)
• The pride of Jamaica: island celebrates its first female PM (The Independent 1/4/2006)
• Black Victims of the Nazis Exhibition sheds light on chilling experience of Africans under Nazi Germany (Black Britain 1/4/2006)
• Hip-hop 'power couple' separating (BBC 1/4/2006)
• British tourists fuel Africa's cruel trade in 'canned hunting' (The Independent 1/4/2006)

Mar 2006

John La Rose dies - Jamaica inaugurates first female leader - Damiola trial evidence ends - Zambia uses debt relief to provide free health care - Report into death of Christopher Alder in Hull police station in 1998 - Jamaica sprint victories at Commonwealth games - Protests against "racist" lecturer continue in Leeds - DJ Swing dies - Famine & drought alerts continue in East Africa - Europe ban for African airlines - Global warming affects Africa & Caribbean - South Africa Zuma rape trial gets underway - Ali Farka Toure dies - New UK immigration system introduced - Police payout for Lawrence friend - National Science Week - UN launching emergency fund for humanitarian disasters - Shaft director Gordon Parks dies - South African Tsotsi takes foreign film Oscar - Black pupils 'achieving more' - Bird Flu hits Africa - Big Brother Nigeria goes on air

• Jamaica gets first woman leader (BBC 31/3/2006)
• Is Trinidad Carnival vulgar? (BBC Caribbean 31/3/2006)
• Damilola jury retires for weekend (BBC 31/3/2006)
• "We must honour those who fought for rights" (Diane Abbott in The Voice 30/3/2006)
• 'Barren future' for Africa's soil (BBC 30/3/2006)
• Zambia: Uses G8 Debt Cancellation to Make Health Care Free for the Poor (AllAfrica 31/3/2006)
• Uganda's daily rate of violent deaths is three times Iraq's, says report (The Independent 30/3/2006)
• Stop and search stats show the government is failing to tackle racism (Blink PR 30/3/2006)
• More black recruits joining Met Police but communities want policy changes to stamp out racism (Black Britain 30/3/2006)
• Cricket: New Zealand win series against West Indies (Caribbean Net News 29/3/2006)
• British Council challenges the perceptions of Africa in the UK and overseas (Black Britain 29/3/2006)
• Police condemned over Alder's death (BBC 27/3/2006)
• Christopher Alder, victim of 'unwitting racism' (Blink 27/3/2006)
• Jamaica dominate sprints at Commonwealth Games (Caribbean Net News 27/3/2006)
• MP shadowing scheme for 2006 hopes to woo more black people into politics (Black Britain 26/3/2006)
• Father tells why he took a stand after a night at the theatre landed him and his son in court (The Guardian 25/3/2006)
• Black and Asian parents needed for BME children (The Voice 24/3/2006)
• Focus on cared-for children call (BBC 24/3/2006)
• Two nurses honoured for their contributions at the Nursing Standards awards last week (The Voice 24/3/2006)
• Leeds boycott continues and pressure stays until FranK Ellis is sacked, say campaigners (Black Britain 24/3/2006)
• A Tribute to DJ Swing - 1967-2006 (ACLT 23/3/2006)
• DJ Swing: Your tributes (BBC 1XTRA 23/3/2006)
• Tributes are pouring in for Mobo-winning DJ Swing who died in a London hospital late last night (Blink 23/3/2006)
• Racism row lecturer is suspended (BBC 23/3/2006)
• Black people need more encouragement to take up voluntary work (Black Britain 23/3/2006)
• ‘Why no BME in senior civil service?’ asks Phillips (The Voice 23/3/2006)
• Africa: Early Alerts on Food Shortages Consistently Ignored (AllAfrica 23/3/2006)
• Zimbabwean lawyer honoured (The Guardian 23/3/2006)
• Zimbabwe Coca-Cola stocks dry up (BBC 23/3/2006)
• Campbell's gold makes it record gold medal haul for Jamaica at Commonwealth Games (Jamaica Gleaner 23/3/2006)
• South Park gets revenge on Chef (BBC 23/3/2006)
• A Black man is to sue Dorset police for an alleged racial attack - and he has the video footage to prove it (IRR 22/3/2006)
• Leicester Carib Carnival Cancelled (The Voice 22/3/2006)
• More than 2 million face famine in Somalia (The Guardian 22/3/2006)
• OBV & 1990 Trust say fight against racial injustice will continue unabated despite Home Office funding (Black Britain 22/3/2006)
• Persistent inequalities in society could cost economy billions in lost revenue, says new report (Black Britain 22/3/2006)
• Editor of Watford Observer publishes article which defended the use of words such as "chocolate covered coon" (Blink 22/3/2006)
• Jamaica: HIV/AIDS report says epidemic will affect business profits (Caribbean Net News 22/3/2006)
• Over 4 Million Unsafe Abortions Occur in Africa (AllAfrica 22/3/2006)
• Europe ban for African airlines (BBC 22/3/2006)
• One in three French 'are racist' (BBC 22/3/2006)
• Big water companies quit poor countries (The Guardian 22/3/2006)
• Simon Woolley: Why I declined an invitiation to a diversity conference at Leeds University (Black Britain 22/3/2006)
• Survey finds Black Londoners supportive of measures to tackle race inequality in the police & schools (Blink 21/3/2006)
• Will Bennett meets the Antiques Roadshow's new recruit, Lennox Cato (Daily Telegraph 21/3/2006)
• The Voice slammed by press watchdog (Blink 21/3/2006)
• Sudan: top UN envoy calls for urgent action to counter brutality in Darfur (UN News Centre 21/3/2006)
• Report exposed how 9 years of Labour have failed to improve conditions of Black communities (Blink 21/3/2006)
• University unions to discuss brain drain of African academics at special conference (Black Britain 21/3/2006)
• Cricket: New Zealand wrap up series against West Indies with 10-wicket win (Caribbean Net News 21/3/2006)
• SA cricketers 'racially abused' (BBC 21/3/2006)
• Commonwealth Games sprint double for Jamaica (Caribbean Net News 21/3/2006)
• One of Hackney’s longest running reggae venues, Palace Pavilion, has been closed (The Voice 21/3/2006)
• Bristol recalls 1001 years of immigration (New Nation 20/3/2006)
• BBC Refuses to condemn racist lecturer (New Nation 20/3/2006)
• Concern over Home Office Race Equality grants silencing leading black critics of government policy (Black Britain 20/3/2006)
• 'Billions' needed for Africa water (BBC 20/3/2006)
• Climate link to African malaria (BBC 20/3/2006)
• Africa: 'Care needed' for Aids children (BBC 20/3/2006)
• Commonwealth Games: Caribbean medal tally grows (BBC Caribbean 20/3/2006)
• Some Balk at Pardon for Rosa Parks (Yahoo! News 20/3/2006)
• British children sent to West Indies for a better education (Daily Telegraph 19/3/2006)
• Rwanda: Anger at BBC genocide film (The Observer 19/3/2006)
• Global warming blamed for increasing force of hurricanes (The Guardian 17/3/2006)
• African Diaspora healthcare conference aims to find a solution to the ‘Brain Drain’ problem (Black Britain 17/3/2006)
• Brain drain 'damaging' African HE (The Guardian 17/3/2006)
• National Science Week: Why young black pupils could be British scientists of the future (Black Britain 17/3/2006)
• Marley bassist claims to be waiting in vain (The Guardian 17/3/2006)
• Football: Fifa finally decides to take on racist supporters (The Guardian 17/3/2006)
• Students and staff protest against lecturer's race views (The Guardian 17/3/2006)
• South Africa: Business Confidence Nears 24-Year High (AllAfrica 17/3/2006)
• Leeds seeks to silence 'racist' lecturer (The Guardian 16/3/2006)
• World ignores calls for help as millions face starvation in Kenya (Black Britain 16/3/2006)
• British police for Trinidad streets (BBC Caribbean 16/3/2006)
• New UK immigration system will hurt African workers (The Voice 16/3/2006)
• Kenya's Anglican Church has issued a public apology for previously shunning those with HIV/Aids (BBC 16/3/2006)
• The Commonwealth: Who's in the club? (The Independent 16/3/2006)
• Stereotypes in the media (Blink 15/3/2006)
• The Education Bill - its failing black kids too (Blink 15/3/2006)
• National Science Week: New 1.5m school funding programme aims to woo black boys into science & technology (Black Britain 15/3/2006)
• Major chains are slowly responding to demand for ethically-produced goods (The Voice 15/3/2006)
• Mayor's Black History Scholar Day may go nationwide (Black Britain 15/3/2006)
• US racist prison gang trial opens (BBC 15/3/2006)
• Civil Service defends itself against the charge that its top ranks are all-white (Black Britain 15/3/2006)
• Opposition wins Cape Town contest (BBC 15/3/2006)
• Isaac Hayes quits South Park after it satirises Scientology (The Guardian 15/3/2006)
• Met chief failing on race say black cops (Blink 14/3/2006)
• Black Brummies seek better representation (The Voice 14/3/2006)
• Government plan to diversify the civil service is failing just weeks after it was launched (Blink 14/3/2006)
• Man denies he murdered Damilola (BBC 14/3/2006)
• Portia takes reins as PM of Jamaica March 30 (Jamaica Gleaner 14/3/2006)
• Jamaican PM urges its citizens to celebrate Commonwealth Day 2006 (Black Britain 14/3/2006)
• SA: Zuma Trial: “I had sex”: Ex vice President denies rape but admits intercourse (The Voice 14/3/2006)
• 'TV chaos' feared at SA World Cup (BBC 14/3/2006)
• Tributes flow as British Civil Rights activist John La Rose is laid to rest (Black Britain 13/3/2006)
• Cameroon: Bird Flu Confirmed in Fourth African Country (AllAfrica 13/3/2006)
• 75 years ago the UK’s first civil rights group began (New Nation 13/3/2006)
• National Science Week: Black scientists engage young with Tours of Universe & Urban Grooves (Black Britain 13/3/2006)
• Black academics blast Yorkshire lecturer’s claims of low intelligence among black people (Black Britain 13/3/2006)
• FIFA hesitant in allowing Trinidad steelpan to go to Germany for Soca Warriors matches (Caribbean Net News 13/3/2006)
• Sir Bill Morris to be honoured in Jamaica (The Voice 13/3/2006)
• The cost of spending eternity with Rosa Parks soars by a third (The Independent 13/3/2006)
• Africa pledges 'not materialised,' Oxfam (BBC 11/3/2006)
• Police payout for Lawrence friend (BBC 10/3/2006)
• Changing a continent: Africa: Promises, pain and progress (The Independent 10/3/2006)
• As UNICEF laments violence in Africa one scientist says apartheid to blame in the south (Black Britain 10/3/2006)
• Caribbean stands to benefit from United Nations disaster relief fund (Caribbean Net News 10/3/2006)
• Africa to decide on Darfur force (BBC 10/3/2006)
• Dispute shuts down Jackson ranch (BBC 10/3/2006)
• Obituary: Gordon Parks: Black photographer who exposed poverty in America & directed first blaxploitation films (The Guardian 9/3/2006)
• New immigration plan criticised for brain draining Africa and the Caribbean (Black Britain 9/3/2006)
• New school guidelines push racist bullying out and Black History in (Black Britain 9/3/2006)
• The UN is launching an emergency fund for humanitarian disasters (BBC 9/3/2006)
• Congo gets World Bank debt relief (BBC 9/3/2006)
• First wife swap, now race swap (The Guardian 9/3/2006)
• 20m face threat of famine in Africa (The Guardian 8/3/2006)
• Black TV newsman is French first (BBC 8/3/2006)
• Damiola Witness: 'I Saw Accused Rob Him Before' (The Voice 8/3/2006)
• Public outcry into years of discrimination against Liverpool’s black community (The Voice 8/3/2006)
• Police halt jobs diversity scheme after discrimination claims (The Guardian 8/3/2006)
• Caribbean pushes for more sugar aid (BBC Caribbean 8/3/2006)
• The Fairtrade revolution (The Guardian 8/3/2006)
• Shaft director Gordon Parks dies at 93 (BBC 8/3/2006)
• Tutor defends 'racist' stance (BBC 8/3/2006)
• University resists call to sack 'racist' lecturer (The Guardian 8/3/2006)
• Immigration shakeup will bar most unskilled workers from outside EU (The Guardian 8/3/2006)
• Zuma South African rape trial reveals a culture of silence (Black Britain 8/3/2006)
• Ethiopia receives the world’s first Humanitarian Insurance Policy (Black Britain 8/3/2006)
• Cricket: No Tests but seven West Indies one-dayers for Zimbabwe (Caribbean Net News 8/3/2006)
• African star Ali Farka Toure dies (BBC 7/3/2006)
• Obituary: Ali Farka Toure (BBC 7/3/2006)
• EU delays DR Congo troop decision (BBC 7/3/2006)
• Black church ministries aim to register 10,000 voters (The Voice 7/3/2006)
• Race inquiry into lecturer who says blacks are less intelligent (The Telegraph 7/3/2006)
• Immigration points system outlined (BBC 7/3/2006)
• Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep (BBC 7/3/2006)
• Lambeth Council will be using doorstep campaign to increase voter participation by BME groups (The Voice 7/3/2006)
• Kenyans protest at media raid (BBC 7/3/2006)
• SA: Zuma's 'rape' accuser questioned (BBC 7/3/2006)
• Black community urged to buy FairTrade products as benefit to farmers in Caribbean & Africa (Black Britain 7/3/2006)
• Jamaica: Moving to preserve historic musical works (Jamaica Gleaner 7/3/2006)
• Police drop Man Utd race probe (Manchester Online 7/3/2006)
• On this day: 1965: Police attack Alabama civil rights marchers (BBC 7/3/2006)
• South African Tsotsi takes foreign film Oscar (BBC 6/3/2006)
• Shooting Dogs Film Review: The outsider view of the Rwanda genocide (Black Britain 6/3/2006)
• Big Brother Nigeria goes on air (BBC 6/3/2006)
• International Women's Day Africa: Handful of Nations Rejects Politics As Usual (AllAfrica 6/3/2006)
• Royal family supported and invested heavily in the transatlantic slave-trade (New Nation 6/3/2006)
• Black American leaders sign a revolutionary agreement to improve African American lives (Black Britain 6/3/2006)
• UK child abuse organisation to consult the African community on child trafficking (Black Britain 6/3/2006)
• Murder victim's family tells of racist attacks (The Guardian 6/3/2006)
• Activist La Rose dies at the age of 78 (New Nation 6/3/2006)
• On this day: 1957: Ghana celebrates independence (BBC 6/3/2006)
• How black music became urban (Black Britain Feature 6/3/2006)
• M&S tops up commitment to Fairtrade (The Guardian 6/3/2006)
• Campus storm over 'racist' don (The Observer 5/3/2006)
• UN: Time short in Kenya food 'crisis' (BBC 5/3/2006)
• Obituary: John La Rose by Linton Kwesi Johnson (The Guardian 4/3/2006)
• Racial motive suspected in murder (BBC 4/3/2006)
• Zimbabwe 'has two weeks' wheat' (BBC 4/3/2006)
• Decisive ANC win in S Africa poll (BBC 4/3/2006)
• Footballer Cole sues newspapers (BBC 3/3/2006)
• Africa could face more droughts (BBC 3/3/2006)
• Basketball: NBA Hero Bucknall Set To Land In Lewisham (The Voice 3/3/2006)
• Asylum Seeking Women speak out in the UK (Black Britain 3/3/2006)
• Raided Kenya paper back on street (BBC 3/3/2006)
• Tanzanians shun drought brew ban (BBC 3/3/2006)
• A large number of talented graduates from ethnic minorities are struggling to find jobs (Daily Telegraph 2/3/2006)
• Budget airlines spread their wings to Africa (The Independent 2/3/2006)
• Community professionals come together to help African Caribbean fathers (Black Britain 2/3/2006)
• How Africa's first elected female leader is faring in Liberia (BBC 2/3/2006)
• Massive participation in Haitian carnival (Caribbean Net News 2/3/2006)
• John La Rose has died (BHM 1/3/2006)
• John La Rose 1927-2006 (IRR 1/3/2006)
• Black pupils 'achieving more' (BBC 1/3/2006)
• 'No hatred' for Walker murderers, Mum (BBC 1/3/2006)
• Football: Police investigate claims that Finnan made racist remark to Evra (The Guardian 1/3/2006)
• UK pay gap of black & ethnic minority women has not been addressed, says a campaign group (Black Britain 1/3/2006)
• Sister slams media bias in coverage of brother, William ‘Kwame’ Danso’s murder (The Voice 1/3/2006)
• Two shot at Kanye West gig (The Guardian 1/3/2006)
• African press eyes bird flu dangers (BBC 1/3/2006)
• Africa given free chemistry journal access (BBC 1/3/2006)
• How peer-to-peer online lending can help Africans (BBC 1/3/2006)
• New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras (BBC 1/3/2006)
• Pictures of Angolans all dressed up for Mardi Gras (BBC 1/3/2006)
• Brazil carnival draws to a close (BBC 1/3/2006)
• Sudan leaders face UN sanctions (The Guardian 1/3/2006)
• Loophole 'let BAE sell arms to Uganda' (The Guardian 1/3/2006)
• New website celebrates African culture (Black Britain 1/3/2006)

Feb 2006

Jamaica to have female leader - Gay weddings in SA - New fears for DR Congo - Museveni re-elected in Uganda - Carnival season - East African drought crisis worsens - Pirate DJs join BBC - Black lawyers directory published - Religious violence continues in Nigeria - Jamaican wins Winter Olympics medal - Preval elected in Haiti - New Damiola Taylor trial continues - Egypt wins Africa Nations Cup - Bird Flu hits Africa - CoE apologises for slave trade - King, first African American & woman to lie in state

• Football: Yorke bags brace in Trinidad friendly win at Loftus Road (BBC 28/2/2006)
• Report finds Black people reluctant to make reports about police officers because they fear being harassed (The Voice 28/2/2006)
• Historic pictures of US civil rights struggle published after 40 years (The Guardian 28/2/2006)
• New Orleans Mayor eyes new term (BBC Caribbean 28/2/2006)
• Site named for black history museum (The Guardian 28/2/2006)
• UK Parties urged: get more BME candidates (The Voice 28/2/2006)
• The CRE will award millions of pounds to race equality organisations (Black Britain 28/2/2006)
• Fourteen jailed as police smash global crack cocaine network (The Guardian 28/2/2006)
• African American Women Gain Ground in Sciences (Women's eNews 28/2/2006)
• Jamaican PM? Portia Simpson: Profile (BBC Caribbean 27/2/2006)
• Can black male teachers break the cycle of low achievement in African Caribbean pupils? (Black Britain 27/2/2006)
• SA couple look forward to gay wedding (BBC 27/2/2006)
• Octavia Butler, prominent science fiction author, dies at 58 (AP 27/2/2006)
• DR Congo: warning of ‘huge risk’ of new conflict, UN agencies urge greater aid (UN News Centre 27/2/2006)
• Jamaica to get first woman leader (BBC 26/2/2006)
• Fertility fears: 'I thought my fibroids had cost me the chance of children' (BBC 26/2/2006)
• Uganda's Museveni 'wins election' (BBC 25/2/2006)
• Business as usual - almost - as King of the Zulus keeps Mardi Gras alive (The Guardian 25/2/2006)
• Rei Momo opens Brazilian carnival (BBC 25/2/2006)
• On this day: 1964: Cassius Clay crowned world champion (BBC 25/2/2006)
• African rebels hail English vicar (The Guardian 25/2/2006)
• Drought crisis develops in Ethiopia (Black Britain 25/2/2006)
• Sudan man caught in sex act ordered to 'marry' goat (BBC 24/2/2006)
• Carnival pulsates across the Caribbean (BBC 24/2/2006)
• Kenya: Young Professionals Are Monied and Free (All Africa 24/2/2006)
• Nigerian religious riots continue (BBC 24/2/2006)
• 10 pirate DJs have given up their shows to join BBC Three Counties Radio (The Voice 24/2/2006)
• Black Lawyers Directory is launched to promote diversity (Black Britain 24/2/2006)
• Shell told to pay Nigeria $1.5bn (BBC 24/2/2006)
• Living with race hate in Russia (BBC 24/2/2006)
• UN warns world on Africa drought (BBC 23/2/2006)
• Uganda: Polls Close in First Multi-Party Election in 26 Years (AllAfrica 23/2/2006)
• Young black men are victims of 'statistical racism' (Black Britain 23/2/2006)
• Uganda's first lady running for election shows gender shift in African democracies (The Guardian 23/2/2006)
• Revenge attacks kill 20 Nigerian Muslims (The Guardian 23/2/2006)
• Black Caribbean smokers are urged to give up smoking (Black Britain 22/2/2006)
• Gordon Brown backs body to link ethnic media with ad men (The Voice 22/2/2006)
• West Africa: 12 Nations Unite to Fight Off H5N1 Threat (AllAfrica 21/2/2006)
• Black unemployment rates contribute to child poverty in the UK (Black Britain 21/2/2006)
• Winter Olympics: Jamaican medallist shows "Cool Runnings" not so crazy after all (Caribbean Net News 21/2/2006)
• Killer bees attack six persons at Trinidad health centre (Caribbean Net News 21/2/2006)
• Caribbean 'brain-drain' worsens (BBC 20/2/2006)
• PM Blair: ‘Only fair trade can save Africa’ (The Voice 20/2/2006)
• Ethnic groups 'fear police more' (BBC 20/2/2006)
• How black mothers in Liverpool give young people a voice through their arts project (Black Britain 20/2/2006)
• Islington’s Lib Dems Do Not Care about the Black Vote (Black Britain 20/2/2006)
• Caribbean: "The sugar industry stands on the verge of disaster" (Black Britain 20/2/2006)
• American & Norwegian companies compete to produce ethanol in St Kitts-Nevis (Caribbean Net News 20/2/2006)
• Comments and Analysis: "Pan-Africa Now Or Perish" (Black Britain 20/2/2006)
• UN agencies join Sudan authorities in mass campaign against polio (UN News Centre 20/2/2006)
• New DR Congo constitution adopted (BBC 19/2/2006)
• Nigeria cartoon riots kill 16 (The Observer 19/2/2006)
• Caribbean group to re-admit Haiti (BBC 18/2/2006)
• Jamaica reassures same-sex marriages will remain illegal (Black Britain 17/2/2006)
• Wealthy African-Americans are using DNA kits to trace their roots - all the way back to Africa (The Guardian 17/2/2006)
• The cost of corruption in Africa (BBC 17/2/2006)
• Africa's forgotten crises (The Guardian 16/2/2006)
• Somalis die of thirst in drought (BBC 16/2/2006)
• Preval declared Haiti poll winner (BBC 16/2/2006)
• Football: Eto'o tipped for African Footballer of the Year award (BBC 16/2/2006)
• Best reliability in years for Air Jamaica (Caribbean Net News 16/2/2006)
• Inquest indicts three agencies in restraint death of Black schizophrenic (IRR 16/2/2006)
• Soul singer Lynden David Hall has died after battling cancer for two years (BBC 15/2/2006)
• With Nearly Four Million Dead, Is World Watching Congo? (AllAfrica 15/2/2006)
• Damilola suspect confession claim (BBC 15/2/2006)
• Lambeth Council refused to join drive to enfranchise predominately young Black people (Blink 14/2/2006)
• Football: World Cup budget for South Africa (BBC 15/2/2006)
• Young black men are less likely to seek help with sexual dysfunction (The Voice 15/2/2006)
• US Senate approves Bill to create Caribbean-American Heritage Month (Caribbean Net News 15/2/2006)
• Food crisis looms in African Horn (BBC 15/2/2006)
• Over a hundred women arrested after Zimbabwe Valentine's rally (Black Britain 15/2/2006)
• Haiti's Preval denounces 'fraud' (BBC 15/2/2006)
• Damilola suspect 'made threats' (BBC 14/2/2006)
• Football Association attempts to defend itself over the absence of any black or Asian on their 92-member council (Blink 14/2/2006)
• Jamaican National Heritage Trust has new executive director (Jamaica Gleaner 14/2/2006)
• Anthony Walker's sister steps up campaign against BNP (Blink 14/2/2006)
• Multinationals Looting Africa's Diversity (AllAfrica 14/2/2006)
• Underwater mountain with some of the richest diversity of marine life in the Caribbean found by scientists (BBC 14/2/2006)
• Alice Walker: Outlaw, Renegade, Rebel, Pagan (AlterNet 14/2/2006)
• Appeal to help rebuild DR Congo (BBC 13/2/2006)
• Demonstrators demand Preval be declared president of Haiti (Caribbean Net News 13/2/2006)
• Football: Uncertainty surrounding completion of new Wembley stadium has left Jamaica fans sweating (The Voice 13/2/2006)
• Rwandan police are cracking down on noisy churches, & confiscating instruments (BBC 13/2/2006)
• CofE Must Add Reparations To Slavery Apology Say Activists (The Voice 13/2/2006)
• US hip-hop producer J Dilla dies aged 32 (BBC 13/2/2006)
• Judge sparks bitter family feud over her abuse claims in bestselling book (The Voice 12/2/2006)
• Wives were key in civil rights struggle (Atlanta Journal 12/2/2006)
• South Africa: Economic Boom Tied to Growing Black Middle Class (AllAfrica 12/2/2006)
• Ethiopian's Winter Olympic debut at risk (BBC 11/2/2006)
• SA: Fenced-in citadel cheek-by-jowl with townships reflects apartheid's legacy of gross inequality (The Guardian 11/2/2006)
• Africa Nations Cup Football: Final: Egypt Defeats C�te d'Ivoire on Penalty Kicks (AllAfrica 10/2/2006)
• New punishment reforms may reduce Black inmate numbers in UK prisons (Black Britain 10/2/2006)
• Football: Jamaican internationals rewarded in England (Caribbean Net News 10/2/2006)
• Africa: Lacking the Financial Support It Says It Needs to Fight the Spread of Bird Flu (AllAfrica 10/2/2006)
• A fearless Kenyan whistle-blower (BBC 9/2/2006)
• Better articulation would get more black graduates into jobs (Black Britain 9/2/2006)
• University chastised over race relations failures (The Guardian 9/2/2006)
• UN and Kenya appeal for aid in worst drought for 22 years (The Guardian 9/2/2006)
• Grenada celebrates 32 years of independence (Caribbean Net News 9/2/2006)
• Nigeria scrambles to halt spread of deadly bird flu (The Guardian 9/2/2006)
• Athletics: Jamaican government rewards Powell for world record (Caribbean Net News 9/2/2006)
• Spanish Town revolt - Slaying of 'One Order' gang leader sparks riot (Jamaica Gleaner 9/2/2006)
• The Jamaican home of reggae legend Bob Marley is to be declared a national monument (BBC 8/2/2006)
• Church of England apologises for slave trade (BBC 8/2/2006)
• Black diabetes patients receive more culturally-sensitive information (Black Britain 8/2/2006)
• US presidents honour King widow (BBC 8/2/2006)
• Monitors praise Haiti election (BBC 8/2/2006)
• Zimbabwe Faces Meltdown - IMF (AllAfrica 8/2/2006)
• USA: Major retail chain celebrates Jamaican cuisine during Black History Month (Caribbean Net News 8/2/2006)
• Mariah and Kanye West poised for Grammy showdown (The Guardian 8/2/2006)
• Damages paid to man cleared in custody death case (IRR 7/2/2006)
• In pictures: Coretta Scott King's funeral (BBC 7/2/2006)
• Africa Nations Cup Football: Semi-Final Ivory Coast 1-0 Nigeria (BBC Sport 7/2/2006)
• Fashion with a conscience tries Africa for size (The Guardian 7/2/2006)
• Martin Luther’s widow dies - but his legacy continues (The Voice 7/2/2006)
• Conservative party would introduce affirmative action as a means of positive discrimination - big con? (The Voice 7/2/2006)
• American scientist discovered how skin-colour of humans turned from black to white (New Nation 7/2/2006)
• Nigerian MPs burn Denmark's flag (BBC 7/2/2006)
• Leading Black Muslim leader explains the Muhammad cartoon protests (Black Britain 7/2/2006)
• Big Event Coming To Mark Slavery Abolition (The Voice 7/2/2006)
• Can proposed school reforms really deliver black power? (Black Britain 7/2/2006)
• Jamaican Consul General reminds students of contributions of Caribbean nationals in US (Caribbean Net News 7/2/2006)
• Bodyguard of Busta Rhymes shot dead (The Guardian 7/2/2006)
• Cricket: Lara cool on retirement whispers (BBC Sport 6/2/2006)
• Author Zadie Smith has won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' regional award for best book (BBC 6/2/2006)
• A steady first step forward: Special report: The verdict on the west's promises of action for Africa (The Guardian 6/2/2006)
• Scientist missed Damilola 'clue' (BBC 6/2/2006)
• Increasing demand for more black women on public sector boards (Black Britain 6/2/2006)
• Row over Cameroon 'gay' witchhunt (BBC 6/2/2006)
• Grenadian playwright Michael Degale laid to rest (Caribbean Net News 6/2/2006)
• Coretta Scott King becomes the first African-American and the first woman to lie in state at the Georgia Capitol rotunda (Chicago Tribune 5/2/2006)
• SA: Young, rich, black... and driving an African boom (The Observer 5/2/2006)
• Africans studied astronomy in medieval times (Black Britain 5/2/2006)
• Zimbabwe Food Insecurity Getting Worse, Says Report (AllAfrica 5/2/2006)
• Football: I'm fine, Sol insists as fears mount (The Observer 5/2/2006)
• On This Day: 1968: More Kenyan Asians flee to Britain (BBC 4/2/2006)
• Mourners honour Luther King wife (BBC 4/2/2006)
• Africa Nations Cup Football: Ivory Coast win 12-11 on penalties against Cameroon (BBC Sport 4/2/2006)
• Behaviour Change Cause of Zimbabwe Drop in HIV (AllAfrica 3/2/2006)
• Black leaders come together to overturn the Mental Health Bill (Black Britain 3/2/2006)
• No justice for Derek Bennett (Blink 3/2/2006)
• USA: Harlem choir silenced by scandal and debt (The Guardian 3/2/2006)
• Africa Nations Cup Football: Egypt 4-1 DR Congo (BBC Sport 3/2/2006)
• France deports African 'rioter' (BBC 3/2/2006)
• Football: Arsenal fears for Campbell (The Guardian 3/2/2006)
• On This Day: 1990: De Klerk dismantles apartheid in South Africa (BBC 2/2/2006)
• 40m in sub-Saharan Africa need emergency food aid, says UN (The Guardian 2/2/2006)
• Plans to offer Kenya 'Dog Food' as aid (Black Britain 2/2/2006)
• Trust Schools 'can deliver black power' (BBC Education 2/2/2006)
• Zimbabwe furore as twins bear their buttocks in loincloths (BBC 2/2/2006)
• Torrential rains hit Suriname (Caribbean Net News 2/2/2006)
• Barbados says Caribbean integration sorely needed for successful single market (Black Britain 2/2/2006)
• Africa Nations Cup Football - halfway report (BBC Sport 1/2/2006)
• Africa: Mapping the food crisis (BBC 1/2/2006)
• Blair’s education reforms are being done at the cost of black kids, critics say (The Voice 1/2/2006)

Jan 2006

Corretta Scott King dies - CARICOM single market ratified - Half of Africa in need of urgent food assistance - Racism in British media debate - New Slavery remembrance day in France - Drought in East Africa - Fayard Nicholas dies - New Damiola Taylor trial - New call for sanctions on Darfur - First traffic lights in Liberia - Kenyans go online to date - Gunmen attack oil complex in Nigeria - Dr Roselle Antoine gets MBE - Renewed fighting in DR Congo - Wilson Pickett dies - Kenyan food crisis - Gebrsellassie shatters two world records - New constitution for DR Congo - MS Dynamite charged with assault - Lou Rawls dies - Ethiopia TV launches Pop Idol

• Obituary: Coretta Scott King (BBC 31/1/2006)
• Coretta Scott King, widow of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King, has died aged 78 (BBC 31/1/2006)
• CARICOM Single Market ratified! - Caribbean leaders sign formal document (Jamaica Gleaner 31/1/2006)
• More than half of Africa is now in need of urgent food assistance (BBC 31/1/2006)
• The Changing face of Jamaica and it’s implications for the Caribbean (Black Britain 31/1/2006)
• 98 stories about a white murder victim but a black man killed on the same day gets none (New Nation 30/1/2006)
• Africa Nations Cup Football: Nigeria's Martins scored two goals to secure a 2-1 victory over Senegal (BBC Sport 30/1/2006)
• The Truth about Institutional Racism in the British Media (Black Britain 30/1/2006)
• Police inquiry into racist attacks at jail (The Guardian 30/1/2006)
• Black Americans more likely to develop & die from lung cancer than other ethnic groups (Black Britain 30/1/2006)
• Guyana launches international appeal to help flooded communities (Caribbean Net News 30/1/2006)
• France will hold a national day of remembrance for the victims of slavery every 10 May (BBC 30/1/2006)
• Relentless drought conditions in East Africa puts millions of children at risk (Black Britain 30/1/2006)
• MP Dawn Butler slams Tory leader Cameron’s efforts to court black voters (The Voice 30/1/2006)
• World governments are under pressure to curb their Arms Trade (Black Britain 29/1/2006)
• Africa Nations Cup Football: DR Congo through despite defeat (BBC Sport 29/1/2006)
• New Orleans may lose 80% of its black people, says Katrina study (The Guardian 28/1/2006)
• Mayor defends Met chief’s allegation of media racism (Black Britain 28/1/2006)
• Obituary: Fayard Nicholas - Senior brother in a tap-dancing duo who linked the eras of vaudeville & television (The Guardian 27/1/2006)
• Black voters in Simon Hughes' seat back their MP (Blink 27/1/2006)
• 1990 Trust responds to comments by Met Police commissioner Sir Ian Blair on institutional racism in media reporting of crimes (Blink 27/1/2006)
• Africa Nations Cup Football: Nigeria seal win over Zimbabwe (BBC Sport 27/1/2006)
• New book presents the positive role of Caribbean mothers in the UK (Black Britain 27/1/2006)
• Black Leaders Launch Attack on Mental Health Bill (Blink 26/1/2006)
• Africa Nations Cup Football: Guinea & Tunisia Make It Into the Quarterfinals (AllAfrica 26/1/2006)
• MPs call for sanctions to help resolve conflict in Darfur (The Guardian 26/1/2006)
• Rebels battling for Darfur town (BBC 26/1/2006)
• UN Upbeat As Investment in Africa Jumps 65 Percent (AllAfrica 26/1/2006)
• Manchester City council face a protest from Black workers who accuse the authority of institutional racism (Blink 26/1/2006)
• Calls for Black and Minority Ethnic groups to be cautious about salt intake (Black Britain 26/1/2006)
• Damilola's last moments recalled (BBC 25/1/2006)
• Liberia gets first traffic lights (BBC 25/1/2006)
• Africa Nations Cup Football: Cameroon through to quarter-finals (BBC Sport 25/1/2006)
• Thousands are made homeless in Lagos by forced evictions (Black Britain 25/1/2006)
• Charles Clarke rejects affirmative police recruitment (The Voice 24/1/2006)
• Jamaica’s Netball Sunshine Girls clinch tri-series victory against England (Caribbean Net News 24/1/2006)
• 'Forensic link' to Damilola death (BBC 24/1/2006)
• Britain’s universities are becoming segregated along race lines. Official! (The Voice 24/1/2006)
• African and Caribbean people urged to have regular eye tests to prevent blindness (Black Britain 24/1/2006)
• S Africa pursues apartheid crimes (BBC 24/1/2006)
• Kenyans break with tradition to join the dating game online (BBC 24/1/2006)
• "Army racism drove me to depression" (Blink 24/1/2006)
• Gunmen attack Nigeria oil complex (BBC 24/1/2006)
• Children’s charity NCH is urgently looking for black male adult Londoners to befriend a young person living in care (The Voice 23/1/2006)
• Jamaica's Prime Minister names date for election of successor (Jamaican Gleaner 23/1/2006)
• Africa Nations Cup Football: Nigeria beat Ghana (BBC Sport 23/1/2006)
• US government allows Cuba to play in World Baseball Classic (Caribbean Net News 23/1/2006)
• Recent heavy rains in Guyana have caused extensive damage to fields of food crops and homes (The Voice 23/1/2006)
• Dr Roselle Antoine, one of Britain’s specialists in multicultural education is finally awarded an MBE (Black Britain 23/1/2006)
• Jamaican court clears reggae megastar Buju Banton of assaulting six gay men (The Voice 23/1/2006)
• British public buildings just don't work - David Adjaye (The Observer 22/1/2006)
• Plans for the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade go ahead (Black Britain 22/1/2006)
• African Union Summit Faces a Host of Crises (AllAfrica 22/1/2006)
• Wily Foxx adds hit album to Hollywood act (The Observer 22/1/2006)
• Africa Nations Cup Football: Senegal 2-0 Zimbabwe (BBC Sport 22/1/2006)
• Christ resurrected as black revolutionary (The Guardian 21/1/2006)
• Africa Nations Cup Football: Eto'o hat-trick seals Cameroon win (BBC Sport 21/1/2006)
• Hundreds flee DR Congo fighting (BBC 21/1/2006)
• Football: Drogba seals Ivory Coast win in African Cup opener (BBC Sport 21/1/2006)
• Terrorism & incitement trial date certain for Trinidad’s Muslim leader (Black Britain 21/1/2006)
• Soul singer Wilson Pickett dies (BBC 20/1/2006)
• Liberia's new leader pledges to crackdown on the scourge of rape (BBC 20/1/2006)
• Community work for Ms Dynamite after attack (The Guardian 20/1/2006)
• London borough celebrates excelling black pupils at awards gala (Black Britain 19/1/2006)
• Women who return to Jamaica after jail in the UK find life is tough (BBC 19/1/2006)
• UN condemns Ivory Coast violence (BBC 19/1/2006)
• Ethnic communities warned about the dangers of high salt diets (The Voice 19/1/2006)
• Sexual violence against women & children is being used to break the will of the population that remains in Darfur, says Glenys Kinnock (The Guardian 18/1/2006)
• 3.5 Million Kenyans Now in Need of Relief Food (AllAfrica 18/1/2006)
• Sudanese detainees 'to be freed' (BBC 18/1/2006)
• New Orleans Mayor says the Katrina disaster was a sign of God's wrath at America, and black Americans in particular (The Guardian 18/1/2006)
• UK pledges millions to Kenya (The Guardian 18/1/2006)
• BME MPs called to reject proposed abolition of CRE (The Voice 17/1/2006)
• Black groups abandon equalities super-body (Blink 17/1/2006)
• US honours Martin Luther King, but kills dream of equality (The Guardian 17/1/2006)
• BNP boss faces race hate charges (BBC 17/1/2006)
• Cricket: Impasse threatens Zimbabwe’s West Indies tour (THe Voice 17/1/2006)
• Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has been sworn in as Liberia's president, making her Africa's first elected female leader (BBC 16/1/2006)
• Close to 50 Million Children in Africa With No Access for School (AllAfrica 16/1/2006)
• Black community holds memorial lecture for Dr Martin Luther King (Black Britain 16/1/2006)
• Ms Dynamite is facing up to 6 months in prison after pleading guilty last week to slapping a policeman in the face (The Voice 16/1/2006)
• African churches fight allegations of child abuse and violent exorcisms (The Voice 16/1/2006)
• Tennis: Venus slumps to shock early exit in Oz Open (BBC Sport 16/1/2006)
• Putting a spin on colonial history will not make black people feel more British (Black Britain Feature 16/1/2006)
• 'Catastrophe' warning on equality watchdog (The Observer 15/1/2006)
• Athletics: Gebrselassie shatters two records (BBC 15/1/2006)
• Police arrest a pastor who accused children in his congregation of being witches (Black Britain 15/1/2006)
• Race watchdog backs the battle for 'Britishness' (The Observer 15/1/2006)
• Football: Arsenal have signed striker Emmanuel Adebayor from Monaco (BBC Sport 13/1/2006)
• New research which may provide a cure for Sickle cell has been welcomed by patients (Black Britain 13/1/2006)
• Football: Kanu's Africa Nations Cup chances fading (BBC Sport 13/1/2006)
• DR Congo: Voters Give New Constitution Overwhelming Support (AllAfrica 12/1/2006)
• MP Diane Abbott has called on the government to act over the 'Darkie Day', a racist festival where locals black-up with charcoal (Blink 12/1/2006)
• Jamaican dog sled racing team coming to Scotland (The Voice 12/1/2006)
• Ozwald Boateng in New Year’s honours list (The Voice 12/1/2006)
• Cricket: Windies players to get long-term retainer contracts (The Voice 11/1/2006)
• Top UK University takes lead to improve education in some of Africa’s poorest countries (Black Britain 11/1/2006)
• Black, middle class and invisible (BBC 10/1/2006)
• Kenyan government takes emergency measures to stop famine (Black Britain 10/1/2006)
• SS Windrush is a UK ’ICON’ (New Nation 9/1/2006)
• Haiti’s UN Mission leader found dead (Black Britain 9/1/2006)
• Ms Dynamite charged with assault (BBC 7/1/2006)
• Jail for man who preyed on African children (The Guardian 7/1/2006)
• Ethiopia's Pop Idol hits the right note (The Guardian 7/1/2006)
• 3.9 million dead from war in Democratic Republic of Congo: The Lancet (UN Mission in DR Congo 6/1/2006)
• 'Thousands' dying in DR Congo war (BBC 6/1/2006)
• UN Agency Calls for Urgent Aid As Millions Face Starvation in the Horn of Africa (AllAfrica 6/1/2006)
• Jamaican cop "masterminded" attacks on UK returnees (Blink 6/1/2006)
• Jamaican jerk on list of ‘food to eat before you die’ (Caribbean Net News 6/1/2006)
• China-Africa trade jumps by 39% (BBC 6/1/2006)
• Soul singer Rawls dies of cancer (BBC 6/1/2006)
• DNA of 37% of black men held by police (The Guardian 5/1/2006)
• Health Trainers against health inequality succeed in Black and Ethnic Minority Communities (Black Britain 5/1/2006)
• England friendly dates confirmed: Uruguay and Jamaica to provide final pre-World Cup preparation (The Guardian 5/1/2006)
• Nigeria is to set free about half of all prisoners to reduce overcrowding (BBC 5/1/2006)
• Clandestine nuclear deals traced to Sudan (The Guardian 5/1/2006)
• Tories accused of smear campaign against black lawyer (Blink 4/1/2006)
• Congolese Mineral Wealth As Coveted As Ever (AllAfrica 4/1/2006)
• Sierra Leone Touted As Success in War-Torn Continent (AllAfrica 4/1/2006)
• World Cup: Trinidad journalist accused of anti-FIFA campaign (Caribbean Net News 4/1/2006)
• Malawi floods displace thousands (BBC 4/1/2006)
• World Cup Germany 2006 and the African immigration smudge (Black Britain 4/1/2006)
• A poster of rapper 50 Cent holding a gun and a baby has been criticised for "glamorising" gun crime (BBC 4/1/2006)
• Zimbabwe: African Union Slams Human Rights Record (AllAfrica 3/1/2006)
• Football: Essien set to sit out Nations Cup (BBC Sport 3/1/2006)
• Egypt to deport Sudan squatters (BBC 3/1/2006)
• Egypt: Calls to Investigate Refugee Riots As Death Toll Hits 30 (AllAfrica 2/1/2006)
• Haiti's general elections to be postponed a fourth time (Caribbean Net News 2/1/2006)
• Free treatment is the key to survival: M�decins Sans Fronti�res is running a campaigning clinic in Lagos, Nigeria (The Guardian 2/1/2006)
• Focus on Africa: Fine words but corruption soars (BBC 2/1/2006)

Dec 2005

Sudanese Refugees die in Egypt - UK: Racially aggravated crimes up - UN troops leave Freetown - Tookie Williams executed - Richard Pryor dies - Antiviral AIDS drug helps mothers in Africa - Political Crisis in Kenya as Cabinet sacked - Trevor McDonald retires - Kelly Holmes bows out - SA: Zuma charged with Rape - New Black Heritage Centre in Brixton - New Book on Equiano - Anthony Walker murder suspect found guilty - South Africa to have Gay weddings - Trouble continues in Darfur

• Ten Sudanese die as refugee camp stormed in Cairo (BBC 30/12/2005)
• Slaves' mass grave is grim reminder of Brazil's racist legacy (The Guardian 30/12/2005)
• Africa's year of democratic reverses (BBC 29/12/2005)
• Pan-Africa: Can Organic Agriculture Feed the World? (AllAfrica 29/12/2005)
• Africa's 'aid year': Was it worth it? (BBC 23/12/2005)
• UK: Mandela statue rejected (Blink 22/12/2005)
• Weah drops Liberia poll challenge (BBC 21/12/2005)
• UK agencies still hiring poorest nations' nurses: Loophole undermining Africa's fight against Aids (The Guardian 20/12/2005)
• Racially aggravated crimes on the increase in the UK (Black Britain 20/12/2005)
• Call for new definition of Britishness (The Guardian 20/12/2005)
• Man from Ethiopia arrested over 21 July London attacks (BBC 20/12/2005)
• African bloggers find their voice (BBC 20/12/2005)
• Family battles for rights to Rosa Parks’ estate (Black Britain 20/12/2005)
• Christmas is a grim prospect for millions of starving Zimbabweans (The Voice 20/12/2005)
• Court orders Uganda to pay Congo damages (The Guardian 20/12/2005)
• 'Sending Money Home' to Jamaica is made easier (Black Britain 19/12/2005)
• Football: Ghana grab Fifa award (BBC Sport 19/12/2005)
• DR Congo: Referendum continues into second day (AllAfrica 19/12/2005)
• Lammy supports race committee for equalities super-body (Blink 16/12/2005)
• Platinum deal sees South Africa's richest tribe get richer (The Guardian 16/12/2005)
• Liberia's electoral commission has dismissed charges of electoral fraud brought by football star George Weah (BBC 16/12/2005)
• Sierra Leone: UN troops bid farewell to Freetown (BBC 15/12/2005)
• War is over but Ivorians are still paying the price: poverty, desperation and infection (The Guardian 14/12/2005)
• No-one knows how many Nigerians there are - and the authorities are too afraid to find out (BBC 14/12/2005)
• Sudan bars Darfur atrocity probe (BBC 13/12/2005)
• 'Tookie' Williams Executed (The Voice 13/12/2005)
• Liberia: Riots Erupt as Weah Claims Presidency (AllAfrica 12/12/2005)
• Black football players in Europe told to speak up about racism (Black Britain 12/12/2005)
• Black Tories welcomed Cameron's "positive action" measures to boost ethnic minority & women MPs but said there was still much to do (Blink 12/12/2005)
• Human Rights Watch has called for senior Sudanese officials to be investigated for crimes against humanity in Darfur (BBC 12/12/2005)
• US ex-gang boss, Stanley "Tookie" Williams, denied clemency (BBC 12/12/2005)
• Richard Pryor, comic voice of black America, dies (The Observer 11/12/2005)
• The waters have receded but the mainly black, low-income citizens of New Orleans are now the victims of rising rents etc (The Observer 11/12/2005)
• An Ethiopian claims that his confession to al-Qaeda bomb plot was signed after beatings (The Observer 11/12/2005)
• Zimbabweans are living in destitution after refusal of asylum (The Observer 11/12/2005)
• Why, just this once, I'll be cheering for Trinidad by Trevor McDonald (The Observer 11/12/2005)
• Antiretroviral drug is helping prevent HIV-positive mothers in Africa transmitting virus to babies (BBC 10/12/2005)
• Comedian Richard Pryor dead at 65 (BBC 10/12/2005)
• Row over French law glorifying colonial history causes minister to cancel Caribbean trip (Black Britain 9/12/2005)
• Kenya: Defiant Kibaki's cabinet sworn in (BBC 9/12/2005)
• Africans will soon be able to take an online tour of the continent's major world heritage sites (BBC 8/12/2005)
• Scientists say they have witnessed the possible birth of a future ocean basin growing in southern Ethiopia (BBC 8/12/2005)
• Zimbabwe: UN aid chief urges charges over mass slum clearance (The Guardian 8/12/2005)
• Kenya's political crisis deepens (BBC 8/12/2005)
• California hears gang leader plea (BBC 8/12/2005)
• Football: Essien hit with misconduct charge (BBC Sport 8/12/2005)
• Black people three times as likely to be in mental hospital (The Guardian 7/12/2005)
• Jamaican-born Dr Garth Taylor, who has died aged 61, performed more than 1,000 eye operations in 60 countries (The Guardian 7/12/2005)
• Trevor McDonald signs off (The Guardian 7/12/2005)
• South Africa plunges into political crisis as Mbeki's ex-deputy charged with rape (The Guardian 7/12/2005)
• Lights go out as Mugabe pledges new energy deal (The Guardian 7/12/2005)
• Exciting new Black Heritage Centre for Brixton (Press Release 6/12/2005)
• Athletics: Hero Holmes announces retirement (BBC Sport 6/12/2005)
• Jamaican gay activist shot dead after being abducted (The Guardian 6/12/2005)
• Mental Health Bill in the UK is under race review (Black Britain 6/12/2005)
• African earthquake buries children in homes (The Guardian 6/12/2005)
• Football Racism: Zoro leaves his mark on Football (The Voice 6/12/2005)
• Crime and the fear of crime are of concern to adults & young people alike, says youth crime workshop (Press Release 6/12/2005)
• Sudan: Gender-Based Violence Still Rampant in Darfur, Say Aid Agencies (AllAfrica 5/12/2005)
• Vincent Carretta's controversial life of an abolitionist hero, Equiano the African, only adds to his heroic stature, argues David Dabydeen (The Guardian 3/12/2005)
• Carers Rights Day calls for BME communities to take advantage of benefits (Black Britain 2/12/2005)
• Allegations of police brutality in St Agnes eviction (Blink 2/12/2005)
• Humanitarian crisis worsens as violence in Darfur escalates (The Guardian 2/12/2005)
• British-born dual nationals could lose citizenship in bill's sanctions (The Guardian 2/12/2005)
• Taylor sentenced to life for murdering Anthony Walker (Black Britain 1/12/2005)
• Zimbabwe to get more UN food aid (BBC 2/12/2005)
• Africa's Condom Conundrum: Fighting HIV in Africa (AllAfrica 1/12/2005 - World AIDS Day)
• UK offers relief - Jamaica to benefit from �24 million assistance (Jamaica Gleaner 1/12/2005)
• Why are gay black men afraid to come out of the closet? (The Voice 1/12/2005)
• EU urges African nations not to heed Bush agenda on AIDS (The Guardian 1/12/2005)
• What happens to asylum seekers who are sent home? (BBC World Service Assignment 1/12/2005)
• Donors pledge to rebuild S Leone (BBC 1/12/2005)
• South Africa to have gay weddings (BBC 1/12/2005)

Nov 2005

First CoE Black Bishop - Rastas Evicted from Kennington Squats - Anthony Walker Murder Trial - New Alliance of Black Organisations in France - Warnings on Climate Change disaster in Africa - Mugabe re-elected - Lara Test Runs record - Food shortages in Niger - First Carnival in Nigeria - Liberia elects Africa's first female leader - Food shortage in Zambia - "Blacking Up" ended in Opera - Trinidad & Tobago reach World Cup finals - Black firm gains De Beer's stake - Violence in Ethiopia Capital - Rosa Parks funeral - Aftermath of Birmingham "Race" riots

• The Church of England is to celebrate the appointment of its first black archbishop (BBC 30/11/2005)
• Where your money can help those with the Aids virus (The Guardian 30/11/2005)
• Kennington Evictions: End of an era for St Agnes (Blink 30/11/2005)
• Anthony's family 'still forgive' (BBC 30/11/2005)
• Anthony Walker: Youth guilty of Walker axe murder (BBC 30/11/2005)
• The first alliance of black organisations in France calls for discrimination to be challenged (Black Britain 29/11/2005)
• Climate change 'will dry Africa' (BBC 29/11/2005)
• UK and Africa university link-ups (BBC 29/11/2005)
• Kennington: Riot police move to evict Bob Marley Street (Blink 29/11/2005)
• New career development scheme to tackle under representation of Blacks in film & tv (Black Britain 28/11/2005)
• Zimbabwe's opposition split after Mugabe wins flawed election (The Guardian 28/11/2005)
• Fight against Aids or see Africa destroyed (The Guardian Comment 28/11/2005)
• Rap rival named as 50 Cent's attempted killer (The Observer 27/11/2005)
• Blair's race plan in tatters as Phillips pulls out (The Observer 27/11/2005)
• Football: Zoro suffers more racist abuse (BBC Sport 27/11/2005)
• Cricket: Lara secures new Test runs record (BBC Sport 26/11/2005)
• World Food Programme urges international efforts as Niger faces increasing levels of food shortages (Black Britain 26/11/2005)
• Identity-enriching exhibition celebrates the indigenous Caribbean people (The Voice 25/11/2005)
• Obituary: Canute Caliste: Naive painter famed for his idiosyncratic portrayal of Caribbean island life (The Guardian 25/11/2005)
• Carnival time: Pictures as Nigeria holds its first ever carnival (BBC 25/11/2005)
• Cricket: Lara achieves Test runs milestone (BBC 25/11/2005)
• Liberian leader 'to boost women' (BBC 24/11/2005)
• Snubbed leader sacks entire Kenyan cabinet (The Guardian 24/11/2005)
• Cricket: Taibu quits as Zimbabwe captain (BBC 24/11/2005)
• Out of Africa: Tracing the US descendants of a slave taken in Sierra Leone 249 years ago (BBC 23/11/2005)
• Educationalists call for racial equality to be part of the education system (Black Britain 23/11/2005)
• Met chief calls on BME community to join police ranks (The Voice 22/11/2005)
• Rastafarians in London’s oldest squatted street vowed to defend their community (Blink 22/11/2005)
• Project provides job gateway for young Africans in the Diaspora (Black Britain 22/11/2005)
• Kenyan Voters Reject New Constitution (AllAfrica 22/11/2005)
• Black domestic violence victims made aware of support (Black Britain 21/11/2005)
• African-Caribbeans moving up social and economic ladder faster than white people says new survey (The Voice 21/11/2005)
• Law: The �1,800 price of equality at the bar (The Guardian 21/11/2005)
• Mugabe hails uranium find and vows to pursue nuclear power (The Guardian 21/11/2005)
• What can Britain learn from riots in France? What can France learn from Britain? And why is the CRE being abolished? Lee Jasper investigates (The Voice 21/11/2005)
• Africa: Unaids Continue to Paint Bleak Picture (AllAfrica 21/11/2005)
• Zambia declares a food disaster (BBC 21/11/2005)
• Zimbabwe Cricket: Taibu forced into hiding (The Observer 20/11/2005)
• So long Mammy: opera says farewell to blacking up (The Observer 20/11/2005)
• She's probably the most powerful woman in the United States: Oprah Winfrey profile (The Observer 20/11/2005)
• Africa: CDs and comics offer digital aid (BBC 19/11/2005)
• Interview: Cry of Innocence Opera (Black Britain 18/11/2005)
• UK: Too few black and Asian faces at the top (The Guardian 17/11/2005)
• Trinidad & Tobago: Patriotic fans celebrate (The Trinidad Guardian 17/11/2005)
• Liverpool: Student 'killed over skin colour' (BBC 16/11/2005)
• Hundreds of Birmingham's Asian and African-Caribbean youths united by music (Blink 16/11/2005)
• Trinidad and Tobago reach the World Cup finals (BBC Sport 16/11/2005)
• Inquiry into Liberia poll results (BBC 16/11/2005)
• All quiet on the Western Sahara front (The Guardian 11/11/2005)
• Liberia: Weah backers stage protest rally (BBC 11/11/2005)
• Sport: Wade banned after steroids test (BBC Sport 11/11/2005)
• Hip-hop acts aim to heal Birmingham's divided communities next week with a peace concert (Blink 11/11/2005)
• Tribute to a Hero: Ken Saro-Wiwa (Black Britain 10/11/2005)
• Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Maintains Leads in Liberia Election (AllAfrica 10/11/2005)
• MOBO award-winning DJ Swing was one of Britain’s most successful acts of his generation until he was struck down with a rare disease (Blink 9/11/2005)
• Africa: Malaria Forum Raises Hope (AllAfrica 9/11/2005)
• New Diaspora: So where are Zimbabweans going? (BBC 8/11/2005)
• Black and Minority Ethnic communities must come forward to adopt in the UK (Black Britain 08/11/2005)
• Africa: Black firm gains De Beers stake (BBC 8/11/2005)
• Vote count under way in Liberia (BBC 8/11/2005)
• Liberians choose post-war leader (BBC 8/11/2005)
• Branson backs African students (BBC 8/11/2005)
• USA: Crips founder will die on December 13 unless Schwarzenegger grants him clemency (The Guardian 7/11/2005)
• African Runners Finish Strong In New York Marathon (AllAfrica 7/11/2005)
• Protest strike at Ethiopia deaths (BBC 7/11/2005)
• Access your naval ancestors online from The National Archives (Black Britain 6/11/2005)
• The violence in Paris is a warning to the whole of Europe that race issues have become central to politics (Trevor Phillips in The Guardian 6/11/2005)
• Cricket: Huge win for Aussies over West Indies (Caribbean Net News 6/11/2005)
• Questions arise over who desecrated Muslim graves in Birmingham (Black Britain 5/11/2005)
• UK: Five jailed for race hate crimes (BBC 4/11/2005)
• Thousands of people have attended the funeral of US civil rights icon Rosa Parks (BBC 3/11/2005)
• Brixton: Rasta squatters brace for new eviction battle (Blink 3/11/2005)
• UK: Gem awards sparkle with gospel stardust (Blink 3/11/2005)
• Violence across Ethiopian capital (BBC 2/11/2005)
• WFP Urges More Funding to Save Lives in Southern Africa (AllAfrica 1/11/2005)
• Continuing exodus of African & Caribbean doctors eroding health care systems (Black Britain 01/11/2005)

Oct 2005

• Birmingham race riots store owner tells of death threats (The Guardian 26/10/2005)
• Africa Aids orphans 'may top 18m' (BBC 25/10/2005)
• Rosa Parks: Civil rights movement loses a heroine (Blink 25/10/2005)
• Discrimination still to blame for low BME employment says UK govt (The Voice 25/10/2005)
• Obituary: Rosa Parks: Activist whose refusal to give up her bus seat ignited the US civil rights movement (The Guardian 25/10/2005)
• Birmingham: Riot rape claim probe continues (BBC 25/10/2005)
• Lara voted the 'most dangerous' batsman (Jamaica Gleaner 24/10/2005)
• UK: A Judge has ruled that excluding black pupils at three times the rate of white children is not racist (Blink 23/10/2005)
• Parallel investigations into Pushkin's African great-grandfather in Gannibal & The Moor of St Petersburg (The Guardian 22/10/2005)
• Obituary: Shirley Horn: Mesmerizing Jazz Singer and Pianist (Washington Post 22/10/2005)
• New book states the importance of Role Models from Black and Minority Ethnic communities (Black Britain 21/10/2005)
• Arts Council decides to give funding to black theatre after judicial review (Black Britain 20/10/2005)
• Lee Jasper says abolition of the CRE risks wiping away gains over the last 20 years (Blink 14/10/2005)
• Obituary: August Wilson - Distinguished black American playwright who reclaimed the stories of his people (The Guardian 4/10/2005)
• Baroness says black history should be integrated into Britain’s education, not confined to 1 month (Black Britain 3/10/2005)
• Leading US playwright August Wilson dies (BBC 3/10/2005)
• South Africa has thrown its weight behind efforts to preserve the priceless Timbuktu Manuscripts (South Africa Info 03/10/2005)
• Black Art: Exhibition explores black Victorians in C19th art (BBC 1/10/2005)

Jan - Sept 2005

• Healthy lives bear fruit for African Hebrews (BBC 28/9/2005)
• Dominica 'Iron Lady' Eugenia Charles dies aged 86 (BBC 7/9/2005)
• Kanye West criticised President Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina (BBC 3/9/2005)
• Obituary: John H Johnson - Deviser and publisher of Ebony and Jet (The Guardian 10/8/2005)
• John Johnson: US black publishing magnate dies (BBC 9/8/2005)
• Wimbledon: Venus Williams title fulfills 'destiny' (BBC 2/7/2005)
• Soul singer Luther Vandross dies (BBC 2/7/2005)
• Obituary: Helen Denniston by Mike Phillips (The Guardian 27/6/2005)
• South Africa marks the 50th anniversary of its Freedom Charter, an inspiration to anti-apartheid activists (BBC 26/6/2005)
• Transport manager Tim Campbell has won hit reality show The Apprentice (BBC 4/5/2005)
• Obituary: Johnnie Cochran - Flamboyant American lawyer noted for his courtroom theatrics (The Guardian 31/3/2005)
• Obituary: US lawyer Johnnie Cochran (BBC 30/3/2005)
• Boateng to step down at election (BBC 14/3/2005)
• Obituary: Pearl Connor-Mogotsi - Influential figure in black British and Caribbean theatre and the arts (The Guardian 2/3/2005)
• Actor Morgan Freeman wins Oscar (BBC 28/2/2005)
• Jamie Foxx wins best actor Oscar for portraying late soul star Ray Charles in Ray (BBC 28/2/2005)
• Obituary: Ossie Davis - Actor and activist against racial stereotyping (The Guardian 8/2/2005)
• US actor Ossie Davis found dead (BBC 5/2/2005)
• Obituary: Shirley Chisholm - The first black woman elected to Congress, she was an outspoken advocate against discrimination (The Guardian 4/1/2005)
• Shirley Chisholm: First black US Congresswoman dies (BBC 3/1/2005)

Pre-2005

• Double Olympic champion Kelly Holmes has been made a Dame in the New Year Honours List (BBC 31/12/2004)
• Mastermind has first black winner (BBC 6/12/2004)
• Black minister makes cabinet history (BBC 29/5/2002)

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