http://blackfood.org/store LOVE, UNITY, REVOLUTION Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:36:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Alexandrio Morley BlackFood News Reporter THE great tradition of Speaking Truth to Power is alive and kicking in the United States of America. And again it is the Black community that is determined to take the lead. On November 7th over two hundred persons, mainly Africans, gathered at the Malcolm X Park in ... http://blackfood.org/store/?p=1078 By Charo R. Walker BlackFood News Reporter THE Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations worked well into the night, hours before its now historic November 7 Rally and March on the White House. The Pre-Rally gathering was essentially a work session and both elders and youth and women and ... http://blackfood.org/store/?p=1071 By Charo R. Walker BlackFood News Reporter LAST month local newspapers reported that the number of discouraged workers, i.e. those who gave up looking for work, stood at roughly 9,000. This number is in addition to the number of workers who are unemployed, i.e. those actively looking for work. If the discouraged workers ... http://blackfood.org/store/?p=1067 By Alexandrio Morley BlackFood News Reporter SILVIA Irene Blanco Hidalgo, a self-taught Cuban artist whose been living in The Bahamas since 1997, recently held an art exhibition at the Cuban Embassy here in Nassau. Her paintings, she said, are intended to share her views on Injustice and Impunity. The focus of the ... http://blackfood.org/store/?p=1059 By Charo R. Walker BlackFood News Reporter WE in the Caribbean have lived with the disappointment of black leadership for many generations now. Our elders thought that black leadership would have led to equal and just societies. But they were wrong, dead wrong. Independence has been attained, black leadership has been elected, yet ... http://blackfood.org/store/?p=1035 The 1st Annual Meeting of Bahamian Activists “The History of Protest in The Bahamas” Where: Nassau, The Bahamas When: April 10, 2010 Call for Works (Papers, poetry, art, documentaries, movies, songs) Deadline: February 18, 2010 BlackFood’s Annual Meeting of Bahamian Activists will be part of our two day anniversary celebrations as a fledgling grassroots institution. We chose ... http://blackfood.org/store/?p=1030 By Alexandrio Morley BlackFood News Reporter PRESIDENT Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize just three days after his government approved billions of dollars for overseas military operations and war planes.  On October 9th, The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced that the Nobel Peace Prize is to be awarded to President Barack Obama ... http://blackfood.org/store/?p=1023 By Bongo BlackFood Contributor THESE institutions have turned on the very people they are supposed to protect. Somehow the mindset has been accepted that we must protect ‘white foreigners’ interest’ because our lives depended on it. Even further we must protect them from each other. What kind of sakhu is this? One ... http://blackfood.org/store/?p=1017 By Bongo BlackFood Contributor POWER is defined as the ability to create one’s reality and have others accept it. As we look around, many of the problems that we face are as a result of some sort of power struggle. Mothers and fathers are in a power struggle; parents and their children ... http://blackfood.org/store/?p=998 By Charo R. Walker BlackFood News Reporter RIHANNA is an international R&B sensation and she’s Barbadian. We accept that. Yet, we criticize Bahamian artists for delving into “non-Bahamian” genres of music like hip-hop. Rebellious Entertainment – a family of young, confident, emerging musicians comprising Dro-Capone (Niko Smith), Kilo Grams (Koardero Capron), and Reddread (Ronald Stauch) – ... http://blackfood.org/store/?p=991