News
Archive - by date
An archive of stories that appeared on the BHM site.
Many of the sites providing the stories maintain an
archive so we thought rather than lose the story, we
would maintain this archive of links. Hopefully, they
will continue to work. We can then all look back to
see how the news developed. We do check links from
time to time but please let us know if any are not
working - thanks. Back to News/Features | Go to News Archive - by category
Notes: A number of older AllAfrica
articles require a paying subscription | Older Trinidad
Guardian articles
may not work - they will take you to the wrong page.
| The Independent requires a subscription
for older articles.
Pre-2005 | Jan
- Sept 2005 | Oct
2005 | Nov 2005 | Dec
2005 | Jan 2006 | Feb
2006 | Mar 2006 |
Apr 2006 | May
2006 | June 2006
2007
June 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 Côte
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: Médecins
Sans Frontières 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
Oct 2005
Jan - Sept 2005
Pre-2005
|