A great tribute by Ani Ekpenyoung to Afro-German poet May Ayim, one a year after her death in 1996. If you want to skip the intro, start at 1:45.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
BHM UK: Black people in classical music from past to present
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Photo of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - A centennial celebration |
Labels:
Black History,
Music
Video: UK's Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (1991)
"Unfinished Sympathy" is a song by English electronica group Massive Attack from their debut album Blue Lines (1991), with Shara Nelson walking and singing and the band members walking and riding behind her.
Labels:
Music
Golden film Award for Dutch film Only Decent People + Debate

Labels:
Film/Television,
Netherlands
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Blackface and Whiteface in German theatre
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White actors playing black illegal immigrants Elisio and Fadoul in play Unschuld |
Labels:
Germany
Friday, October 26, 2012
Les Afro'péros in Brussels. A Succesful Initiative by and for the Afro Diaspora
Les Afro'péros is a Non-Profit Organization based in Paris and Brussels. They've been succesfully active since last year in Brussels and gather people from the African and Afro-Caribbean diaspora to share their experiences.
Labels:
Afro-Europeans,
Belgium
Black man and woman in 16th century drawing come to life in film of John Akomfrah

Labels:
Black History,
UK
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Scandinavian soul: David Jay & Awa Manneh & Aisha
Danish singer David Jay (born and raised in Copenhagen Denmark) released the first music video from the new EP “Evil Cirle” a week ago. The video “4 A Minute” is recorded in London by ANP Media.
Labels:
Music,
Scandinavia
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Special report: An embarrassing Black Spanish Youth Day in Madrid

Thursday, October 18, 2012
Video: Germany in Black and White - An interracial couple and prejudice

Via: Black Germans
In the short film Germany in Black and White (2011) a mixed couple is discussing what actually is German. The German man, who is full of prejudice, talks with his wife about people he feels are different than Germans.
Labels:
Germany,
mixed race
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Tintin racism row puts spotlight on Sweden's own racial history

Labels:
Scandinavia,
Sweden
Monday, October 15, 2012
Dutch writer controversial book and film "Only decent people" receives death threats
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Cast of "Only decent people" with Dutch author Robert Vuijsje right on the photo |
Labels:
Film/Television,
Netherlands
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Racism against immigrants has entered Sweden's leading newspaper
Racism against immigrants is on the rise in Sweden. The mock slave auction, the Somali woman who was forced to pour milk over herself in order to symbolise that she should be white and the racist children’s movie featuring a racist depiction of a black girl child, are but a few of similar incidents. But a month ago racism in the form of hate speech has found a new platform in Sweden's leading newspaper.
Labels:
racism,
Scandinavia,
Sweden
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Danish video artist Jeannette Ehlers explores the Danish atlantic slave trade
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@Jeannette Ehlers: Photo of Fort Frederick on St. Croix |
Labels:
Art,
Black History,
Denmark,
Scandinavia
Sweden: “Play” — a film that upends racist clichés

Labels:
Film/Television,
Scandinavia,
Sweden
Friday, October 12, 2012
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Walters Art Museum Exhibition Reveals the African Presence in Renaissance Europe
Via The Brothers' Network Newsletter
The exhibition "Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe" will be held at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (USA), October 14, 2012–January 21, 2013
The exhibition "Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe" will be held at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (USA), October 14, 2012–January 21, 2013
Labels:
Art,
Black History,
USA
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Video: Chimamanda Adichie: The stories that Europe tells itself about its colonial history
Via T.O.A-A.G.I.L.- The Only.African American Guy In London
It is not that Europe has denied its colonial history. Instead, Europe has developed a way of telling the story of its colonial history that ultimately seeks to erase that history”
It is not that Europe has denied its colonial history. Instead, Europe has developed a way of telling the story of its colonial history that ultimately seeks to erase that history”
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Protest from Sweden: "You do not have the universal right to represent me"

Labels:
Scandinavia,
Sweden
Monday, October 8, 2012
Paris hosted its first-ever Black Fashion Week

Paris hosted its first-ever Black Fashion Week this weekend (5-7 October). Organisers and featured designers say they are fighting to make a place for themselves in a rigid industry.
African-American blogger Shantology on race and racism in the Netherlands

Labels:
Netherlands,
Opinion,
USA
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Film: "A Bend in the River" - A London story of Migration, Multiculturalism and the River Thames

British writer Caryl Phillips invited photographer Johny Pitts to create the film/geographical slideshow "A Bend in the River". It eventually concluded in Tilbury, the Thames dockside some 30 miles away, where, between 1948 and 1962, ships arrived carrying immigrants from Britain’s former colonial territories, hastening the country’s transformation into a multi-cultural, multi-racial society.
Watch the film at The Space . And check out more or the project at A Bend in the River.
Labels:
Art,
Film/Television,
UK
Saturday, October 6, 2012
What is the Black German Experience? - Review of the Black German convention in New York
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Photo: Authors Olumide Popoola and Philipp Kabo Köpsell |
Labels:
Afro-German,
Events,
Germany,
mixed race,
Writers
Friday, October 5, 2012
MAGAZINE: Transition 109 - Persona (Forthcoming, October 2012)
Many of the artists featured in Transition109 make their livings making themselves up—Renée Stout buying new potions for her “shop” as the root worker Madam Ching, or Rashaad Newsome drawing on “the equalizing force of sampling” to create his own language and title in the heraldic tradition.
But even for these performance artists, persona shades into personality, and their theatrics don’t seem so different from the daily wardrobe decisions of metalheads in Botswana, or, at the other end of the spectrum, the highly tuned persona, personality, and apotheosis of personhood that is Oprah herself. As Ms. Winfrey might say, you are your hardest role yet. The craft of the self is unmasked in this issue, revealing the sleight of hand at play in Paul Laurence Dunbar’s famous words: “We wear the mask.” There’s a special ring to it in the African diaspora.
Exhibition: "The history of Afro-Caribbeans in France" in Paris

Labels:
Black History,
France
Book: Colour Me English by Caryl Phillips - Race, identity and Englishness

Wednesday, October 3, 2012
BHM: Britain's first black community in Elizabethan London

Black History Month UK - BBC- The reign of Elizabeth I saw the beginning of Britain's first black community. It's a fascinating story for modern Britons, writes historian Michael Wood.
Labels:
Black History,
UK
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Black History Month UK 2012: James Brown - "Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud"
It's Black History Month in the UK from 1 October 2012 to 31 October 2012
Some links:
www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk
www.visitlondon.com/events
www.black-history-month.co.uk
Some links:
www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk
www.visitlondon.com/events
www.black-history-month.co.uk
Labels:
Black History,
UK
Monday, October 1, 2012
French MP Harlem Désir set to become first black man to lead a major European political party
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Photo: www.1001topwords.com |
The French Euro MP Harlem Désir appears certain next month to become the first black man to lead a major European political party.
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