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LEADING THE WAY TO A BETTER FUTURE CELEBRATING THE PAST RELEVANT YEAR ROUND READING! Fresh! Inspiring! Uplifting! Unique! These are just some of the words used by our readers to describe the new and original Editions Lifestyle Black History Month Magazine! The first in a series of publications from Editions Media Limited . Black History […]
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WINDRUSH FOUNDATION presents GLENDA CAESAR Glenda arrived with her mother in the UK in 1961 from Dominica ‘as a babe in arms’. She first found out she wasn’t British and could not get a passport after trying to visit her dying mother in the Caribbean in 1998. In 2009, Glenda was sacked from her part-time […]
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By Joy Sigaud. Patrick Vernon OBE and Dr Angelina Osbourne’s eagerly awaited 100 Great Black Britons 2020 has gone straight to number 1 on Amazon’s Hot New Releases in Biography Reference with orders for the hardback and number 4 for the kindle version. Not surprisingly, of course, as the original 100 Great Black Britons, first […]
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Windrush Foundation presents Woman Stowaway on Empire Windrush She attracted more press coverage than any other passenger when the ship docked at Tilbury, Essex, on 22 June 1948. She left Jamaica unnoticed but when it became too cold to sleep out at night on deck, she had to give herself up. The news spread like […]
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WINDRUSH FOUNDATION PRESENTS LORD WOODBINE, THE BEATLES & HAMBURG Born in 1929 in Trinidad, Harold Phillips (who later became known as Lord Woodbine, the Calypsonian) volunteered for the Royal Air Force to fight for Britain in World War II. After being demobbed when the War ended, he returned to England on the Empire Windrush on […]
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THE EQUIANO SOCIETY PRESENTS PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1753 – 1784): REMEMBERING HER LIFE AND TIMES PHILLIS WAS THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHOR OF A BOOK OF POETRY. KIDNAPPED AT THE AGE OF 8 IN WEST AFRICA, PHILLIS WAS TAKEN TO NORTH AMERICA AND SOLD IN BOSTON TO THE WHEATLEY FAMILY WHO TAUGHT HER TO READ AND WRITE, […]
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WINDRUSH FOUNDATION PRESENTS CELEBRATING EDNA CHAVANNES: WINDRUSH NURSE AT 90 Edna Allen (now Chavannes) was born in the parish of St. Andrew, Jamaica, in 1930. After leaving school, she worked for three years as a teacher, but always wanted to be a nurse. The opportunity came in 1951 when The Gleaner […]
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OLAUDAH EQUIANO … AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE (1745 – 1797) […]
Read MoreTHE EQUIANO SOCIETY presents OLAUDAH EQUIANO: AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE (1745-1797) TUESDAY 25 AUGUST 2020 from 7:30pm to 9pm From Enslavement to becoming a Businessman, Explorer, Community Activist, Abolitionist and Best-Selling Author, this event celebrates Equiano’s extraordinary life and his contribution to African literary and cultural heritage. His book, The Interesting Narrative (1789), is positioned at […]
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From Slavery to Show Business A new book about Henry “Box” Brown by Kathleen Chater. Henry Box Brown is well-known in America for remarkably escaping slavery. In 1849 he organised for himself to be nailed up in a box and posted from Virginia to Philadelphia where he was received by abolitionists. Although he remained in […]
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By Joy Sigaud Anyone who has had their DNA tested will have noticed groups of people carrying the same DNA in far fetched regions. How did this come to be one would ask oneself? A Tongan ancestor? It may well be the case as our ancestry is so diverse that nothing is impossible nor […]
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Arthur Torrington of The Windrush Foundation summarises the Windrush story to date. When the late Sam King, aged 22, disembarked at Tilbury Docks, Essex, on 22 June 1948 having travelled on Empire Windrush, he had already obtained the names and addresses of dozens of his friends who were also on the ship. He looked forward […]
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Mona Baptiste arrived in England in June 1948 and by August 1948 she had appeared on the BBC Light Programme – a radio station broadcasting light entertainment between 1945 and 1967 which later became BBC Radio 2. Mona Baptiste travelled first class on the Empire Windrush to London, disembarking on 22nd June with all the […]
Read MoreBy Joy Sigaud From the lush groves of cane Standing in majestic rows under vivid blue sky Tall green grasslike feathered poles The juice is sweet, Who would ask for sweeter Who could ask for more. That sweet tooth is with us still today. They, the plundered, chop chop chop in season with their machetes […]
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African, Jamaican or Just British? A Jamaican’s journey written by J. Sigaud Long Ago And Far Away There is a world that exists No one knows about it They have civilisations, structures, tribes, hierarchies and wars Just like everywhere else, save the poverty, filth and degradation of many but […]
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By Joy Sigaud The people of Jamaica are delighted to learn that the Jamaican beauty Toni-Ann Singh, the reigning Miss World, will continue her reign for another year as this year’s pageant is deferred to late 2021, a result of the Covid 19 Pandemic. Few places remain untouched by this plague whilst in the UK […]
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