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<span style="font-size: large;">Norman Samuda Smith is a talented Author and former playwright. He is the first black British born novelist to be published in the UK, what an accolade to have under your belt. He has achieved so much and is so understated, but has done a plethora of work in which opened doors through his writing of what it was like growing up as a black person in the UK. In 2013, Norman self-published three of his books, Britannia's Children, Freedom Street, and in celebration of its 30th Anniversary, his ground-breaking novel Bad Friday; which was published in 1982 and republished in 1985. In a rare appearance, we at Sounds Beautiful Radio hosted a two part thoughtful and personal interview by our very own presenter 'Westfield John'. It was a pleasure having Norman come into the studio for this interview. So sit back and listen to part 1 of the full account of his surprising stories <a href="http://soundsbeautiful.podomatic.com/entry/2016-02-17T01_51_45-08_00" target="_blank">here...</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">'When Norman Samuda Smith wrote Bad Friday, he became our first black British born novelist - he became a pioneer who spoke for a generation whose voice had yet to be heard in the long narrative form. Norman Samuda Smith and Bad Friday were born and made in Britain, where he put pen to paper.' </span><span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><b>*****</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">'I read Bad Friday before I met Norman and felt it was good then: a novel about school leavers set in inner-city Small Heath Birmingham (UK) among the Afro-Caribbean community in the 1970s. It uses the dialogue of the community skillfully to tell an affecting story. What's amazing (to me) about it is the author's youth when he wrote it - he was only 17, and in his earlt 20s when it was first published, but he shows a mastery of narrative.' </span><span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">*****</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">'Around 16 years ago, when I when starting to write my first novel, I was eager to find past examples, or 'blueprints', which would provide inspiration for what I was about to do. Although I found many noteworthy stories from across the African Diaspora, I was looking for something set in Britain. And then I was gifted <i>Bad Friday - </i>a novel I have to this day. It was instrumental in letting me know that what I evisioned was achievable, and that a rich, Black British AND working class literary culture had been realised by others before me. It was liberating to read, and I'm heartened to know this book will be made available to others. It's a long unsung milestone, and I hope that, with this reprint, that will change.' </span><span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">*****</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">'Excellant book!! The final paragraph on the back cover gives definition to the struggles we faced in our youth. There are very few credible books that speak to an almost forgotten group - Black British people growing up in the 1970s. Great context and real characters who make this a page turning read.'</span> <span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">*****</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">'Norman wrote Bad Friday when he was only 17. The book has a great depth to it from innocence to the harsh realities of life. The characters are all well-defined, a mixture of emotions, joy, sorrow, dreams, love and the escape through music via 'Sound Systems' - Norman has a real talent.'</span> <span style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;">*****</span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> ISBN: 9781784071110 - Total Pages: 237</span></b></blockquote>
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Former Son of Small Heath now Hollywood actor David Harewood travels back to his native Birmingham, UK to look at his city’s Blitz story. During the second world war, Birmingham’s factories were crucial to war production, and although the city was heavily <span class="ml__ellipsis"><span class="ml__hidden">bombed, much of the destruction was kept secret. David uncovers this story and talks to victims of the Blitz. He also goes up in a small plane to recreate the German bombing raids – from the sky he is able to see that the house where he grew up in on Oldknow Road in Small Heath, was sandwiched between two major targets. Watch the episode <span style="color: #ff6600;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bgsvy" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">here…</a></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #ff6600;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26207907-britannia-s-children" style="color: #ff6600; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Britannia’s Children</a> </span><span style="color: #e4d3a6;">by </span><span style="color: orange; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6880497.Norman_Samuda_Smith" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Norman Samuda Smith</a></span></h2>
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<span style="color: #999999;">‘If you haven’t purchased and read BRITANNIA’S CHILDREN by Norman Samuda Smith, here are my reasons why you should…’</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #999999;">An anthology of short stories which together not only represents a time capsule of black British youth experiences between the 1960s and possibly the late 1970s, Britannia’s Children by Norman Samuda Smith (2013), is also an organic record of the author’s Journeys. I read this book several times; first for leisure. Secondly, I read to establish a chronology other than that given by the year each story was written, for I felt so familiar with the setting and characters of each story I was forced to ask the questions Who and When? Lastly, I read to harvest the information between the lines. The hidden having dissected and critically analyzed Smith’s stories I found Britannia’s Children to be original, honest, inspirational and humbling.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #999999;">As a book for leisure the mention of the familiar (for example Birmingham City Center, Grange Road Park and the Small Heath Community Center) evoked the feeling of nostalgia. At the most basic level it did for me and will do for the Birmingham populace; particularly if one traverses the Small Heath area, what the books of famous crime novelist Patricia Cornwell did for residents of the city of Richmond, Virginia (United States). Cornwell, having an intricate knowledge of Richmond used the City’s various locales as a backdrop to her stories. Just knowing that one shared the same knowledge as the writer not only spurred local interest, it boosted sales and often triggered heated discussion as to her accuracy. Every story triggered ten stories for me thus setting me on an emotional roller coaster.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Reading between the lines I found the first four stories 1981 through 1985 to be very revealing. Careful scrutiny of these stories; all of which have been presented in chronological order, gives a rough insight to Smith searching to find his dialect, his medium of expression and his true voice. As I read the stories I made note of the writer’s use of Caribbean colloquialism, British slang and of course standard English. As Smith grew more confident and comfortable Caribbean colloquialisms were less forced and he interjected some British working class slang. By Rasta Love it was a Standard English texture in varying degrees by colloquialisms and slang determined by situation. The book is truly an excellent example of hybridization.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 19.2px; text-align: left;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Having written the above I must say I was not only pleasantly surprised by its contents, it was difficult keeping my comments objective. A contemporary of Smith’s from infant through to Secondary school up until 1973, Britannia’s Children appealed to me at multiple levels. Every story triggering ten stories thus causing my emotions to undulate as if riding on a roller coaster. There were very few stories in which I did not seem to be directly or indirectly involved but I can testify to the authenticity.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #999999;">In the story “Who Can’t Hear Must Feel!” (Verse 1), the names Wendell and Leroy used in this tale are undoubtedly pseudonyms; I actually know who these two particular boys are. However, even if I did not, we all have knowledge of the family structure that they represent. I was one of those kids harmlessly begrudged for being able to play in the Park every day. The Grange Road Park was my backyard. Less known were the circumstances which made our freedom possible. Along with four other families, my family lived in a row house on Charles Road. With multiple sets of children in a rooming house and a backyard that was essentially a dump there was little room for play. Fortunately, the windows of the second floor kitchen used by my mother and the attic in which we lived both gave my parents panoramic views of the Grange Road Park. Being able to watch my every move I was given the false sense of freedom. This was true for several of my peers that played in the park daily, we were what are referred to in Caribbean culture as ‘one room pick ninny’. I find it humorous that while I begrudged Wendell and Leroy for their small private backyard, they begrudged me for my compulsory freedom. My parents would say, “Buoy!! The grass is not greener over the fence, just depends on how the sun shine pon it”. I guess they were right.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #999999;">While I am familiar with the Streets named, I know nothing of Small Heath sound systems and dance hall life as portrayed in Rasta Love. I was plucked out of Birmingham before completing secondary school. My party experience in Birmingham is restricted to the summer of 1988. Similarly, my experience with the Small Health Community Center is limited to two evenings of indoor football. The stories in which they are mentioned however are very powerful triggers. I could see the houses on Muntz Street from our attic. Once being a truant from school I watched two houses on fire being put out by the firemen. Then related the events to my father, was my undoing. He realized I could not possibly have been at school and witnessed the fire. I will never forget that thrashing!! The characters Robo, Pedro and Beres who play active roles in the story are very real to me. These were the names of my peers with whom I (Smith included) ate lunch, walked to and from school, every day for a number of years. These names are those of the Alston Boys Secondary School crew, we huddled together as birds of a feather, played football, cricket, basketball and even sang on the school choir.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #999999;">I was a member of that 1972 football team written about in the story titled The Football Match. I could never for the life of me recall the ending score or what precipitated the match. What I always remembered was fighting an Irish guy Mickey Jaggers. Also normally if we had to be on the Ritz field after school, the crew would exit the field on the Yardley Green end and walk it home via Green Lane as we all lived, on that side of Small Heath. However, on this particular evening for more than just having had a hard game of football, I was hurting all over. I forgot about comradery, somehow exited on the Little Bromwich Road side , walked to the number 54 bus stop not too far from the Ritz, used my last two pence to catch the bus and ‘draw mi half dead ass’ home.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Lastly, depending on one’s experiences stories can be a powerful stimuli, Smith’s stories for me were like a shot of adrenaline given to the dying. Having completed Britannia’s Children I had a eureka moment; as a child of Small Heath this did not only plot the author’s Journeys, they were milestones of my own.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #999999;">WOMAN is the story of Ivey and her life as she lived it for forty years. She left Jamaica as a young woman and went to England. Once there she studied to become a nurse, married, had children and was now a grandmother. On the eve of her sixtieth birthday, after a party to celebrate, she realized that forty years had gone by and she’d never returned to her family; realized that it was too long a time to spend away from those she’d left behind in Jamaica. She felt it was time to plan a vacation; it was time to go home…</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #999999;">LIZA is the story of a young girl who was raised by very stern parents. They insisted she have the education they didn’t and forbid her to date or have boyfriends as they would get in the way of her schoolwork. Liza wanted to be a lawyer but her mother would have none of that; she wanted her daughter to become a doctor, to give back to her fellow man so, under duress, that is what Liza decided to do. She aced her first year; studied hard and won grants to continue her education. She was her family’s shining star. Then she met Barry. How could so much positive turn into a very big and dark negative?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Written in Jamaican patois, I felt drawn into the culture as I experienced the pain, joy, frustration and successes of the characters peppered throughout the book. There are lessons to be learned in this book; does Who Can’t Hear Must Feel make you think of a few?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="color: #999999;">Britannia’s Children is a look through the lenses of life; a colorful slice of the lives of the people you’ll meet as you turn the pages. It will show you that no matter who you are or where you come from, there are lessons and experiences that we all share in one form or another.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"> </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In this relaunch issue of PANTHER NEWSLETTER we have our SPECIAL GUEST, Birmingham's Treasure Tonya Joy Bolton, check out her engaging interview. My lifelong bredrin Beresford Callum returns with another fascinating FEATURED STORY highlighting his encounters with the paranormal and his book review in the FEATURED ARTICLE. We also have THE MUSICAL COA-COA BASKET, and everybody's favourite, THE CULTURE CORNER.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My Dad's health hadn't been at its best in recent years. I give thanks I was able to fly out to California and spend quality time with him during his brief recovery in the summer of 2014, together with my brothers, sisters and extended family. Although we knew it was a matter of time, nothing prepares you for the inevitable news when it arrives.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He passed away November 20, 2014 aged 90 years young. We gave him a good send off and celebrated his remarkable life.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He is survived by his wife of 38 years Dorothy J Smith (The Director), his children, and a multitude of grandchildren and great grandchildren. He will be deeply missed by us all.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Even though you were far away, visions of you are so memorable. All of your letters, cards and phone calls. You never forgot us at all.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Thanks to you Grandpa, I know my roots and where I'm from; and because of the teachings you passed onto my Dad; I hear it everyday from in my ear-drums.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I work hard every day Grandpa like you did, trying to make ends meet. Me and my Dad sweating hard. I'm staying out of trouble and standing firm on my feet.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Work was hard at the start, I didn't want to carry on; but how can I give up when I remember your words saying, you're proud of what I've done.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All I know is I'm proud that I'm your Garandson.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You are my guiding star, the <i>General</i>, my champion!!</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">*All rights reserved. No part of this poem may be reproduced in any form or by any means without prior permission of the writer Jermaine Samuda Smith.*</span></blockquote>
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<em><span style="color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>MY DAD</b></span></span></em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">(c) 2014 Norman Samuda Smith</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He showed me how to be a man. He's helped me, advised me and guided me. Sometimes I haven't agreed with him along the way. He's strong and gentle too, and I strive to be like him every day...</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I'm blessed to be his son, it was written from the start. He's a supreme father, loving, kind and smart.</span> </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He's not a chic dresser, but he's trimmed and very neat; with his casually smart clothes, to the shoes he wears on his feet.</span> </span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He doesn't hang out at the pub, he doesn't drive a flashy car; and when he takes a vacation, he doesn't go too far.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He doesn't dine on fine cuisine; to him: </span><em style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">'Fast food nuh sweet,' </em><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">he always has rice on his plate, when it's time for him to eat.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He has a humble house in California, which has all what he needs. He keeps his garden cut nice and short; he grows vegetables and fruits and he trims all the weeds.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He used to work long hours, to earn an average pay. Even when he was sick or tired, he turned up for work every day.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He worked as a mechanic, a builder, a variety of jobs. His pay just made ends meet; but the few good friends and family he has, makes his life complete.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He has never had much money, his life is not for show; but still he's the richest man, I will ever know.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He loves the simple things in life, for riches he doesn't thirst, cos he knows what's important, he puts his family first.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The wealth that God has given him, to treasure in his life; loving sons, daughters, grandchildren and great grandchildren, and a very special wife.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #999999;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">To many he's just a simple man, but he's the greatest man I know. A man of great dignity, honour, strength and pride; he's my Dad, my mentor, my hero.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">DAD THE</span><b style="color: #ff6600; font-style: italic;"> </b><span style="color: #ff6600;">GENERAL </span>- WATCH OUR VIDEO TRIBUTE TO HIM; <a href="https://vimeo.com/127378275" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span><span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; font-style: italic;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I was recently in touch with an old schoolmate of mine. We were pupils of Washwood Heath Comprehensive School, Birmingham, UK from 1973 to 1975. Grace Patricia Pinnock now resides in Spanish Town after migrating from England to Jamaica, her parents' homeland in 1991 and found it to be a place which she can truly call home.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Her book,<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="https://samudasmithpublications.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/asenseofbelongingcover.pdf" data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" href="https://samudasmithpublications.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/asenseofbelongingcover.pdf" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">A Sense of Belonging</a></span>, published by<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://arawakpublications.com/inprint/home" data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" href="http://arawakpublications.com/inprint/home" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">Arawak Publications</a></span>,<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">Kingston Jamaica</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">(2012)</span>, is her personal account of being British born of Jamaican descent.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Grace tells of her 'Jamaican' childhood in England, her discontent with the subtle forms of racism in the British education system, the search for her identity, her wrestles with the decision to move from England to Jamaica, and of the challenges she faced to begin her new life in Jamaica with its traditions and culture that she was raised to honour and respect.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It also gives some insight into why one British born Jamaican identifies with the island of Jamaica and questions whether the British born person of Jamaican or other West Indian descent will ever be truly accepted as Black and British in the UK.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You can get your copy of<span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><em><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/Sense-Belonging-Grace-Pinnock/dp/9769530476/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431627376&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=a+sense+of+belonging+-+grace+p+pinnock" data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Sense-Belonging-Grace-Pinnock/dp/9769530476/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431627376&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=a+sense+of+belonging+-+grace+p+pinnock" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">A Sense of Belonging</a></span> </em></span><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/SENSE-BELONGING-Grace-Pinnock/dp/9769530476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431606491&sr=1-1&keywords=9789769530478" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/SENSE-BELONGING-Grace-Pinnock/dp/9769530476/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1431606491&sr=1-1&keywords=9789769530478" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">here...</span></a></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Winter has stepped away, Spring is here. We all look forward to Summer Time when we pray for the sun to shine and everyone has continuous smiles on their faces. To get y'all into the summer time mood, here's a tune my brother and my son threw down during a jam session in the recording studio; their version of <span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><em>SUMMER TIME</em></span>: listen up and watch it<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="https://vimeo.com/68532747" data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" href="https://vimeo.com/68532747" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">here...</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<b style="line-height: 32.6399993896484px;"><i><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-2Ga" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">SPECIAL GUEST</span></a></span></i></b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">She's been described as multifaceted and multi-talented; a writer, performer, producer and Empowerment Specialist, born and bred in Birmingham, UK who's been writing from an early age. Published in numerous anthologies and academic journals, she's performed extensively throughout the Midlands and internationally. The founder of the not for profit organisation <a href="http://www.icu-transformational-arts.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">ICU Transformational Arts</span></a>; you can add business woman and entrepreneur to her many accolades.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The</span> </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">SPECIAL GUEST</span> <span style="font-size: large;">in</span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: x-large;"> </span><i style="color: #ff6600; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: large;">PANTHER NEWSLETTER</span></i><i style="color: #ff6600; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold;"> </i><span style="font-size: large;">this issue is Birmingham's Treasure...</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<em><span style="color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b>TONYA JOY BOLTON</b></span></span></em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I recently hooked up with Tonya to talk about her and her work. Check out her engaging interview with me <a href="https://samudasmithpublications.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/special_guest_tonya_bolton_original.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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Panther Newsletter (The online cultural review)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12742409575340951415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439514981452452361.post-69939443129688162752015-05-26T22:35:00.000+01:002015-05-27T14:24:55.695+01:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-2Ep" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">FEATURED STORY</span></a></span></i></b></blockquote>
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<a data-mce-href="https://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/bez.jpg" href="https://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/bez.jpg" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><img alt="Bez" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-10153" data-mce-src="https://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/bez.jpg" height="200" src="https://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/bez.jpg" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="200" /></a><a data-mce-href="https://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/my-youts-2.jpg" href="https://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/my-youts-2.jpg" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></a><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">While my primary objective in writing this story is to relay an experience with the paranormal, I also wish to provide a slither of information regarding adversities encountered by rural students during early to late 1970s in order to attend a traditional High (Grammar) School education. Hence, sometimes the background to a story is more meaningful than the story itself. This is my exact sentiment regarding this story. Leton, Brenda, Everald, Clive, Audrey, Daphne, Laxton, Audrey F, Clifton, Leighton and Sideone I write this for us.</span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For readers to fully appreciate my experience that Thursday night, I find it necessary to first outline the circumstances (High School) which led to me being in Hog Land Street after dark (between 9:30-10:00 PM every week day night) and secondly, the recent history behind this famed locale...</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Read more of Believe It or Not!! - <a href="https://samudasmithpublications.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/believe_it_or_not.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here... </span></a> </span></blockquote>
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Panther Newsletter (The online cultural review)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12742409575340951415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439514981452452361.post-77746122161146820202015-05-26T22:28:00.000+01:002015-05-26T22:40:28.578+01:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Music has always played an important role in all our lives, especially Reggae, the music genre first developed in Jamaica, strongly influenced by traditional African, American jazz and old-time rhythm and blues. Reggae owes its direct origins to the progressive development of Ska and Rocksteady in 1960s Jamaica.<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><em style="color: #333333;"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">THE MUSICAL COA-COA BASKET</span> </em>salutes the legendary artists and recording studios from out of Jamaica who have placed reggae on the musical global map.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hortense Ellis, younger sister of the "Godfather of Rock Steady" Alton Ellis, a singer who was regarded as Jamaica’s first locally based female singing star.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hortense Mahalia Ellis was born in Trench Town area of Kingston, Jamaica, on April 18, 1941; to a railway worker and a housewife who sold fruit at the market. One of seven children, Ellis began performing in local talent shows at an early age. In 1959, at age 18, she made a splash with her version of Frankie Lyman's hit, "I'm Not Saying No At All," winning a prize in the process. She recorded several duets with her brother, Alton Ellis, who became a superstar in Jamaican music and worked with several important producers including Ken Lack, Arthur "Duke" Reid, Clement "Coxsone" Dodd and Lee "Scratch" Perry, but raising her children took precedence over her career.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: center;"></span>By 1962, Ellis was touring the Bahamas and Trinidad with producer Byron Lee and his band, the Dragonaires. They became quite popular at local Caribbean holiday shows, including "Christmas Mornings," "Easter Spectacular" and a New Year's show. She was awarded the Silver Cup as "Jamaica's Best Female Vocalist" in 1964, an award she won again five years later.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 1971, Ellis married Mikey "Junior" Saunders and worked on new recordings under the name Mahalia Saunders. She had five children in rapid succession, and her priority began to shift from her career to raising her family. While touring was a challenge, she continued to record periodically, working with producer Gussie Clark in the late 1970s on one of her biggest hits, "Unexpected Places."</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">After divorcing Saunders and living in Miami in the 1980s, Ellis returned to her beloved Jamaica, where she was diagnosed with throat cancer. She died of stomach complications on October 18, 2000, in Kingston, Jamaica, and was survived by eight children.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oqPFRjq1l8" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">If You Knew - Hortense Ellis</span></a> </span></blockquote>
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Panther Newsletter (The online cultural review)http://www.blogger.com/profile/12742409575340951415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4439514981452452361.post-58305766936914577992015-05-26T22:22:00.000+01:002015-05-26T22:41:35.208+01:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><a href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-2Fy" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">THE MUSICAL COA-COA BASKET</span></a> </i></b></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Music has always played an important role in all our lives, especially Reggae, the music genre first developed in Jamaica, strongly influenced by traditional African, American jazz and old-time rhythm and blues. Reggae owes its direct origins to the progressive development of Ska and Rocksteady in 1960s Jamaica.<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><em style="color: #333333;"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">THE MUSICAL COA-COA BASKET</span> </em>salutes the legendary artists and recording studios from out of Jamaica who have placed reggae on the musical global map.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The 1970s is the decade recalled as the golden age of roots reggae, primarily due to the fact that during these years many legendary artists came to prominence. Amongst those singers, DJs, vocal groups, musicians and producers perhaps the best-loved by the UK audience was the man known as Prince Far I - not so much a DJ in the classic style, but more a chanter of words. Watch and listen up<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKEGhaxIro" data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKEGhaxIro" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">here...</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Alton Nehemiah Ellis, better known as simply Alton Ellis to all reggae connoisseurs, was born on September 1, 1938, in the Trenchtown area of Kingston, Jamaica; an area of Jamaica that was home to other leading musicians, including Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer and Peter Tosh. He was a prominent singer, songwriter, producer and concert promoter, referred to by many as the "Godfather of Rocksteady," an R&B American-styled Jamaican music genre.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ellis excelled at both sports and music at the Boys' Town school, and made a habit of breaking into the school after hours to teach himself to play the piano. He and his younger sister, Hortense, started out like many other Jamaican performers, by competing on well-known talent shows like <em>Vere John's Opportunity Hour</em>.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The 1959 R&B song "Muriel," which Ellis recorded as part of the duo Alton & Eddie and with producer Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, topped the Jamaican charts. Ellis was working as a construction worker at the time. Due to the success of "Muriel," he became a constant presence on Jamaica's music charts throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Many of Ellis's follow-up tracks became instant classics, including the love songs "I'm Just A Guy," "Girl I've Got A Date" and "Get Ready Rock Steady," which started a dance craze in 1966 and became Ellis's signature tune. "Rocksteady" produced songs of love and longing, and blazed a trail in a Jamaica dominated by hard-edged, horn-driven ska music and its spiritual, rebellious cousin, Reggae. Ellis also used his distinctive tenor to infuse new life into cover versions of hits like Johnny Taylor's "Ain't That Loving You" and the Delfonics' "La La (Means I Love You)."</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ellis spent several months living in the United States and three years in Canada, finally moving to the United Kingdom in 1973, where he continued to record. In 1970, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the International Reggae and World Music Awards. In 1994, he received the Order of Distinction from the Jamaican government, in recognition of his contribution to the island's popular culture.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Ellis died of multiple myeloma, a form of bone cancer, on October 11, 2008, in London. He was 70 years old at the time, and was given a state funeral in honor of the legacy he left to Jamaican music. He was survived by several children and many grandchildren.</span></blockquote>
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<em><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">'If you haven't purchased and read<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Britannias-Children-9781782991656.aspx" data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Britannias-Children-9781782991656.aspx" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">BRITANNIA'S CHILDREN</a></span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>by<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.feedaread.com/profiles/2025/" data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" href="http://www.feedaread.com/profiles/2025/" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">Norman Samuda Smith</a></span>,<span style="color: #333333;"> </span>here are my reasons why you should...'</span></em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #999999;">An anthology of short stories which together not only represents a time capsule of black British youth experiences between the 1960s and possibly the late 1970s,</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Britannias-Children-9781782991656.aspx" href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Britannias-Children-9781782991656.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Britannia’s Children</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #999999;">by</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://panthernewsletter1.wordpress.com/about-norman-samuda-smith/" href="http://panthernewsletter1.wordpress.com/about-norman-samuda-smith/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Norman Samuda Smith</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #999999;">(2013), is also an organic record of the author’s Journeys. I read this book several times; first for leisure. Secondly, I read to establish a chronology other than that given by the year each story was written, for I felt so familiar with the setting and characters of each story I was forced to ask the questions Who and When? Lastly, I read to harvest the information between the lines. The hidden having dissected and critically analyzed </span><span data-mce-style="color: #999999;">Smith’s stories I found</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Britannias-Children-9781782991656.aspx" href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Britannias-Children-9781782991656.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Britannia’s Children</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #999999;">to be original, honest, inspirational and humbling.</span></span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">These are the faces of people that are remnants of the great civilization of Pharaohs. Although you almost never see them in the modern Egyptian media, the original people are still there largely un-mixed and with a separate culture. They have largely been squeezed out of the popular culture, but they are still proud and surviving; read more <a href="http://here.../"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">THE MOORS, who settled in and ruled Northern Africa and invaded and conquered many parts of what we would now consider "Southern Europe (Spain, Portugal, France & Southern Italy-ala Sicily)" for nearly 800 years, from as early as the 7th to the 15th century. Their profound, cultural legacy, influence and what they left behind is evident on modern day Spanish architecture, art, music and traditions. The Moors played a significant role during the shaping of prehistory in their early settlememt; read more about them <a href="http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/10/07/when-black-men-ruled-the-world-moors/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a> - read The Black Moors of Europe <a href="https://samudasmithpublications.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/the_black_moors_of_europe1.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #999999;" style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is what Mozart more accurately looked like. The image was found in a radio station in Belgium. FACT - the Moors (Black people) brought Classical Music to Europe: read some more facts about the Moors<span style="color: #999999;"> </span><a href="https://samudasmithpublications.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/the_black_moors_of_europe.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The state of California was named after the mythical Black Queen Califia. According to the story,California was an island where on black women lived. The women were the most powerful women in the world. When Cortez arrived in California, searching for this mythical queen, her influence on him was so severe, he paid tribute to this powerful Black Woman Queen Califia by naming the state after her. California lierally means, "the land where black women live." - Read more about her <a href="http://www.frenchcreoles.com/CreoleCulture/famouscreoles/Adah%20Menken%20Isaac/SAVANNAH%20CHURCHILLcalifa.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://theblacklistpub.ning.com/profile/AnitaBelle" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Anita Belle</span></a> wrote a blog post about the legal way that black people can be re-enslaved; read this enlightening article<span style="color: orange;"> <a href="http://www.reparationslaborunion.net/blacks-can-be-re-enslaved/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">An excerpt of the explosive lecture presentation by Master Amaru Ka'Re who uncovers the lies about our history and reveals the TRUTH about the so-called Arawaks are fake. Columbus was a mass-murdering theif. The "Slave Trade" was actually a Race War. Jamaican Citizens are legally British property. Christianity is a psychological weapon. Queen Elizabeth II owns the Government of Jamaica, and Jamaicans are neither "independent" nor free.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Maggie Lena Walker,</span> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">born July 15, 1864 in Richmond, Virginia; the first woman to found and become president of an American bank. She was the daughter of a former slave and also founded a newspaper and department store. She was also grand secretary of the Independent Order of St. Luke, an organisation dedicated to the social and financial advancement of African Americans; read her biography <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/maggie-lena-walker-9522099" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Charlotte E. Ray was born in New York City, January 13, 1850. She graduated from the Howard University School of Law in 1872 and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar that same year, becoming the first female African American lawyer in the United States. Active in the suffrage movement, Ray was a member of the National Association of Colored Women. She died in New York in 1911; read more about her <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/charlotte-e-ray-11380" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Born in 1872, Wallace Rayfield, the son of a Pullman porter in Macon, Georgia was a legendary craftsman was was second in the nation to be licensed and the first black architect in Alabama. Rayfield's work as an architect consisted of designing the most significant buildings in civil rights history including 16th Street Baptist Church (<a href="https://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/church.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a>), Ebenezer Baptist Church and the Trinity Building in South Africa; read more about him <a href="http://alafricanamerican.com/2012-honorees/wallace-rayfield/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Thomas Jennings was the first African American to receive a patent, March 3, 1821. His patent was for a fry-cleaning process called "dry scouring". The first money Thomas Jennings earned from his patent was spent on the legal fees necessary to liberate his family out of slavery and support the abolitionst cause; read more about him here...</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Julian Abele was a prominent black architect who built more than 400 buildings. Some of them were the Harvard University Widener Memorial Library, Monmouth University's Shadow Lawn Mansion, the Central Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Most importantly, Abele was known for building the Duke University Chapel; more information about him <a href="http://libwww.freelibrary.org/75th/abele.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Verone Mankou is the genius creator behind the Way-C tablet computer. The tablet is called the Way-C - "the light of the stars" in a dialect of northern Congo. Meet the Way-C, the first African tablet to rival the iPad, created by a young inventor with dreams of bringing internet access to the masses; more information <a href="http://www.africatopsuccess.com/en/2014/01/23/verone-mankou-creator-of-the-first-made-in-africa-tablet-computer-the-steve-jobs-of-congo/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the 31st December 2012, the day of <a data-mce-href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/kuumba.jpg" href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/kuumba.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Kuumba (Creativity)</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>of the<span style="color: orange;"> <a data-mce-href="http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/index.shtml" href="http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/index.shtml" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Kwanzaa</span></a> </span>season; I promised myself that I was going to write and self-publish three projects I had rolling around in my head for years. On the 1st January 2013, the day of<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/imani.jpg" href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/imani.jpg" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Imani (Faith)</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, </span>I began my journey.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Two men have been found guilty of murdering soldier Lee Rigby outside Woolwich barracks in south-east London in May. Michael Adebolajo, 29, and Michael Adebowale, 22, struck Fusilier Rigby with a car before hacking him to death;<span style="color: orange;"> <a data-mce-href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25450555#FBM320877" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25450555#FBM320877" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">more...</span></a></span></span></blockquote>
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From the Mail Online:</span></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><em><span style="font-size: large;">Come on the British Government and Security Authorities, wake up and smell the coffee...What are you going to do to make sure this never happens again;<span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526806/If-son-did-Michael-Adebolajo-did-I-happy-Hate-preacher-Omar-Bakri-Muhammad-says-proud-Lee-Rigby-killer.html" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2526806/If-son-did-Michael-Adebolajo-did-I-happy-Hate-preacher-Omar-Bakri-Muhammad-says-proud-Lee-Rigby-killer.html" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600; font-size: large;">visit </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600; font-size: large;">here...</span></a></span></em></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A JEALOUS husband has been locked up for life for murdering his wife in a jealous rage while their baby slept in the same room; <a data-mce-href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/jealous-husband-gets-life-horrific-murder-wife" href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/jealous-husband-gets-life-horrific-murder-wife" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">visit here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THE FOUNDERS of a food bank in Moss Side, Manchester have launched a petition to put an end to benefit sanctions, after the number of people needing emergency food parcels spiked;<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/food-bank-founders-launch-appeal-help-manchesters-hungry" href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/food-bank-founders-launch-appeal-help-manchesters-hungry" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">more...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">COMMUNITY STALWART Beverley Lindsay has been appointed as a deputy lieutenant for the West Midlands, becoming the first African Caribbean woman to take up the role;<span style="background-color: black;"> <a data-mce-href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/birmingham-woman-becomes-queens-local-representative" href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/birmingham-woman-becomes-queens-local-representative" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">visit here...</span></a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THE INQUEST into the death of Tottenham resident Mark Duggan has been adjourned until next year as the jury completed their sixth day of deliberations;<span style="color: orange;"> <a data-mce-href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/mark-duggan-inquest-adjourned-until-next-year" href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/mark-duggan-inquest-adjourned-until-next-year" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">more...</span></a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mark Obama Ndesandjo, President Obama’s half-brother, will address supposed inaccuracies in the president’s own memoir; <a data-mce-href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2013/12/obama_s_brother_self_published_an_autobiography_setting_the_record_straight.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content" href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2013/12/obama_s_brother_self_published_an_autobiography_setting_the_record_straight.html?wpisrc=newsletter_jcr:content" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">visit here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The embarrassing gaffe in the southern city of Coimbatore displayed the actor's face instead of the late South African president. <a data-mce-href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/billboard-erected-nelson-mandela-photo-morgan-freeman-article-1.1553375" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/billboard-erected-nelson-mandela-photo-morgan-freeman-article-1.1553375" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Read more... </span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Did a focus on forgiveness come at the expense of black advancement? Marc Wadsworth, founder of the Anti-Racist Alliance, examines the debate; <a data-mce-href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/mourn-mandela-man-not-his-politics" href="http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/mourn-mandela-man-not-his-politics" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">visit here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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Junior Murvin, Reggae Great, Dies at Home in Jamaica</i></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reggae great Junior Murvin died at his home in the Portland Parish, Jamaica earlier this month; <a data-mce-href="http://www.spin.com/articles/junior-murvin-dead-reggae-police-thieves-rip/" href="http://www.spin.com/articles/junior-murvin-dead-reggae-police-thieves-rip/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">read </span></a><a data-mce-href="http://www.spin.com/articles/junior-murvin-dead-reggae-police-thieves-rip/" href="http://www.spin.com/articles/junior-murvin-dead-reggae-police-thieves-rip/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">more...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My special guest in the Summer of 2011 <a data-mce-href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-1pH" href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-1pH" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Caroline Bell Foster</span></a> <em>'THE CARIBBEAN'S LEADING LADY OF LOVE'</em> has recently published her new book <span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><em><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Call-Me-Royal-Center-ebook/dp/B00GDPRBIK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387555762&sr=1-1&keywords=call+me+royal" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Call-Me-Royal-Center-ebook/dp/B00GDPRBIK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387555762&sr=1-1&keywords=call+me+royal" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><b>CALL ME ROYAL</b></span></a></em></span><span data-mce-style="line-height: 1.5em;" style="line-height: 1.5em;"> on kindle format. You can find out what Caroline and her new book is about by logging on to her recent interview <a data-mce-href="http://charliecochrane.livejournal.com/325952.html" href="http://charliecochrane.livejournal.com/325952.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Become of fan of Caroline's on facebook </span><a data-mce-href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caroline-Bell-Foster/94806349840" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Caroline-Bell-Foster/94806349840" style="text-align: justify;" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Get your copy of <em><span style="color: orange;">CALL ME ROYAL</span><b>;</b></em> <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Call-Me-Royal-Center-ebook/dp/B00GDPRBIK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387555762&sr=1-1&keywords=call+me+royal" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Call-Me-Royal-Center-ebook/dp/B00GDPRBIK/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387555762&sr=1-1&keywords=call+me+royal" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">MARTIN GLYNN</span></em></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Past studies have suggested that offenders desist from crime due to a range of factors, such as familial pressures, faith based interventions or financial incentives. To date, little has been written about the relationship between desistance and racialisation...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My special guest in the Spring of 2011 <a data-mce-href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-1lh" href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-1lh" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Martin Glynn</span></a> has penned this book <em><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Invisibility-Crime-International-Rehabilitation/dp/0415715350/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387557299&sr=1-1&keywords=martin+Glynn" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Invisibility-Crime-International-Rehabilitation/dp/0415715350/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387557299&sr=1-1&keywords=martin+Glynn" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;"><b>BLACK MEN, INVISIBILITY AND CRIME</b></span></a></em>, which will be of interest both to criminologists and sociologists engaged with race, racialisation, ethnicity, and criminal justice. Check it out <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Invisibility-Crime-International-Rehabilitation/dp/0415715350/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387557299&sr=1-1&keywords=martin+Glynn" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Black-Invisibility-Crime-International-Rehabilitation/dp/0415715350/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387557299&sr=1-1&keywords=martin+Glynn" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></div>
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<em style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em><span style="color: orange;">REAL TALK</span> (Shadow People Speak Out) </em>Download your free copy <a data-mce-href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/shadow-people.pdf" href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/shadow-people.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></em></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: orange;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Celebrate-Wha-Black-British-Midlands/dp/0956814409/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387559333&sr=1-1&keywords=celebrate+wha" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Celebrate-Wha-Black-British-Midlands/dp/0956814409/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387559333&sr=1-1&keywords=celebrate+wha" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: orange;">CELEBRATE WHA?</span></em></a> </span></b>is a book of many voices. It is a book of questions and answers. It is an anthology of poems about identity and race, curry goat n rice. Dreadlock Alien, Sue Brown, Marcia Calame, Evoke,<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-1lh" href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-1lh" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Martin Glynn</span></a>, Michelle Hubbard,<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-rV" href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-rV" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Kokumo</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, </span>Roy McFarlane, Chester Morrison and<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-yq" href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-yq" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Moqapi Selassie</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>explore what it means to be black and British and from the West Midlands.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Get your copy of<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><em><span style="color: orange;">CELEBRATE WHA?</span></em><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Celebrate-Wha-Black-British-Midlands/dp/0956814409/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387559333&sr=1-1&keywords=celebrate+wha" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Celebrate-Wha-Black-British-Midlands/dp/0956814409/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387559333&sr=1-1&keywords=celebrate+wha" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<em><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">MAEVE CLARKE</span></em></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><em><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Goes-Round-Maeve-Clarke/dp/0954130332/ref=la_B001KCBXEO_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387560774&sr=1-1" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Goes-Round-Maeve-Clarke/dp/0954130332/ref=la_B001KCBXEO_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387560774&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">WHAT GOES AROUND</span></a></em><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></b>tells the story of Frank who returns to Jamaica for Poppa Ben's funeral, he discovers that life isn't like his accounting books - he can't start a new page because he's made a mess of the last one. People keep coming back...<strong> </strong></span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong></strong></span><span style="font-size: large;">For lovers of Caribbean literature, a humorous, character-packed account of a man's return to Jamaica with his teenage daughter. Maeve Clarke was born in Birmingham to Jamaican parents. A graduate of Manchester University's MA in novel writing, her 'potent and supple' short story 'Letters A Yard' is featured in the prize-winning anthology<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whispers-Walls-Black-Voices-Birmingham/dp/0953589552/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387562325&sr=1-8&keywords=whispers+in+the+walls" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Whispers-Walls-Black-Voices-Birmingham/dp/0953589552/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387562325&sr=1-8&keywords=whispers+in+the+walls" target="_blank"><em><b><span style="color: orange;">WHISPERS IN THE WALLS</span></b></em></a>.<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><em><span style="color: orange;">WHAT GOES AROUND</span></em> is her first novel.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"></span><span style="font-size: large;">Get your copy of <em><span style="color: orange;">WHAT GOES AROUND</span>;</em><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Goes-Round-Maeve-Clarke/dp/0954130332/ref=la_B001KCBXEO_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387560774&sr=1-1" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Goes-Round-Maeve-Clarke/dp/0954130332/ref=la_B001KCBXEO_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387560774&sr=1-1" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">JASMINE JOHNSON</span></em></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My first ever <em><strong><span style="color: orange;">PANTHER NEWSLETTER</span></strong></em> guest interview was with Birmingham author<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-hn" href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-hn" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Jasmine Johnson</span></a>. Born in Jamaica, she came to Britain when she was a teenager. A Media and Communication Studies graduate from the University of Wolverhampton, Jasmine has come a long way since her first novel<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><em><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Soon-Come-Jasmine-Johnson-ebook/dp/B008FQG8KC" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Soon-Come-Jasmine-Johnson-ebook/dp/B008FQG8KC" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">MR SOON COME</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></em>hit the literary scene in 2001.<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><em>MR SOON COME</em> follows the fortunes of Conteh Gonzalez who professes his love to his beautiful wife Simone. He isn’t lying, however, ‘forsaking all others’ and clinging only to her is proving an arduous task. Set against the backdrop of Birmingham’s Reggae dancehalls and the Pentecostal church, this gripping novel takes you on a journey that touches all your emotions. Get your copy of <em><span style="color: orange;">MR SOON COME</span>;</em><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Soon-Come-Jasmine-Johnson-ebook/dp/B008FQG8KC" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Soon-Come-Jasmine-Johnson-ebook/dp/B008FQG8KC" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Soon-Come-Jasmine-Johnson-ebook/dp/B008FQG8KC" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mr-Soon-Come-Jasmine-Johnson-ebook/dp/B008FQG8KC" target="_blank"><br /></a>Other books written and self-published by Jasmine Johnson:<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><em><a data-mce-href="http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=11567523020&cm_ven=aff&cm_ite=cj&cm_pla=sws&cm_cat=sws&afn_sr=CJ" href="http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=11567523020&cm_ven=aff&cm_ite=cj&cm_pla=sws&cm_cat=sws&afn_sr=CJ" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">THE DEVIL I KNOW</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></em>and<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Day-Hell-Broke-Loose/dp/0954417518/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_t_1_BD6B" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Day-Hell-Broke-Loose/dp/0954417518/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_t_1_BD6B" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: orange;">THE DAY HELL BROKE LOOSE</span></em></a>.</span></blockquote>
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<em><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">AVA MING</span></em></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: orange;"><b><i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Once-Upon-Lie-Ava-Ming/dp/1902934393/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387568491&sr=1-6&keywords=ONCE+UPON+A+LIE" target="_blank">ONCE UPON A LIE</a></i></b> </span>by<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-1Yn" href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-1Yn" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Ava Ming</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>is about young college lecturer Renford Shang. He is seen by his family and community as a man who has everything going for him. A prestigious job, a lovely new wife and home. But when it's discovered that he's having an affair, his "good life" is slowly exposed to being nothing but a sham.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ava Ming was born in Birmingham of Jamaican parents. She is a classically trained musician, experienced radio presenter - the <em>Ava Ming Show</em> ran on the local BBC radio for six years and for three years on New Style Radio. Get your copy of <span style="color: orange; font-style: italic;">ONCE UPON A LIE</span>;<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: orange;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Once-Upon-Lie-Ava-Ming/dp/1902934393/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387568491&sr=1-6&keywords=ONCE+UPON+A+LIE" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Once-Upon-Lie-Ava-Ming/dp/1902934393/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1387568491&sr=1-6&keywords=ONCE+UPON+A+LIE" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a> </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">More writings by Ava Ming<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://inspiringwriter.hubpages.com/" href="http://inspiringwriter.hubpages.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<em><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">LEEANNE STODDART</span></em></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is Birmingham born Leeanne Stoddart's first poetry collection. She hates writing bios about herself and prefers to write poems about people she loves, fantasies she has, her hair and trees. She is a Facebook addict and a collector of useless trivia and corny jokes. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Get your copy of <em><span style="color: orange;">UNREALISTIC EXPECTATIONS</span></em>;<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/2494962-unrealistic-expectations-and-other-poems?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=bookstore-share" href="http://www.blurb.co.uk/b/2494962-unrealistic-expectations-and-other-poems?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=bookstore-share" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">NORMAN SAMUDA SMITH</span></em></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Delroy Bell is about to leave school. The prospects for him and his friends look grim. Will he be able to make it as a professional basketball player or will he end up hustling and gambling on the streets like his cousin Peter says? - Set in mid 1970s Small Heath, Birmingham against the back-drop of an economic recession, record unemployment and mass union strikes,<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Bad-Friday-9781784071110.aspx" href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Bad-Friday-9781784071110.aspx" target="_blank"><em><b><span style="color: orange;">BAD FRIDAY</span></b></em></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>follows the fortunes of Delroy and his friends. It portrays their search for a future, an identity and the respect they feel was denied their parents. Get your copy of <em><span style="color: orange;">BAD FRIDAY</span>;</em><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Bad-Friday-9781784071110.aspx" href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Bad-Friday-9781784071110.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<em><strong><span style="font-size: large;">ALSO BY NORMAN SAMUDA SMITH</span></strong></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em><span style="color: orange;">BRITANNIA'S CHILDREN</span></em></strong>: Get your copy <a data-mce-href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Britannias-Children-9781782991656.aspx" href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Britannias-Children-9781782991656.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong><span style="color: orange;">FREEDOM STREET</span></strong></em>: Get your copy<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Freedom-Street-Stories-Poems-9781782998846.aspx" href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Freedom-Street-Stories-Poems-9781782998846.aspx" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></blockquote>
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<em>Mama Afrika Kulcha Shap: Kwanzaa - Workshop and Market Place London UK</em></h2>
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<em>Afrikan Designer Wears, Shoes & Accessories</em></h2>
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- Books & DVDs<br />
- Natural Health & Whole Food products<br />
- Hair Care & Natural Beauty<br />
- Paintings, Prints & Posters<br />
- Greeting Cards & Gift bags<br />
- Jewellery<br />
- Dolls<br />
- Home Furnishing<br />
- Carvings & Artifacts</div>
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<em>RAFFLE & PRIZE GIVE AWAYS</em></h2>
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1st Prize: All inclusive Holiday for 2 to ST. LUCIA</div>
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2nd Prize: Samsung Galaxy 2 Tablet</div>
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3rd Prize: Kindle Fire HD</div>
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<em><strong>Book Signings & Workshops TO BE ANNOUNCED</strong></em></div>
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Dates: Sun 22nd December 2013</div>
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Venue: @ Mama Afrika Kulcha Shap<br />
282 Leyton High Road, London, E10 5PW</div>
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Time: 12pm-6pm<br />
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There are limited stall spaces available....</div>
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If you would like to book a stall(s) please contact Mama Afrika Kulcha Shap on 0208 539 2154 (business hours).</div>
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Sis Kai: 07908 814 152</div>
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or email your interest stating what you will be selling, amount of stall(s) and contact details to asantewaa_lioness@hotmail.co.uk</div>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">For all things dance hall over the festive season<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://dublistings.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/j/E10BFE2436ADCF4A/A02B50E0F16B2F8CC68C6A341B5D209E" href="http://dublistings.createsend1.com/t/ViewEmail/j/E10BFE2436ADCF4A/A02B50E0F16B2F8CC68C6A341B5D209E" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">visit here...</span></a></span></span></em></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em style="color: #333333;"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">"If we had a woman of her strength today, we'd have a woman and a half."</span> </em>Jamaica's only female heroine Nanny/@nannythe movie is to have a documentary made about her called <em>'Queen Nanny.' </em>Watch the film's maker Roy T. Anderson pitch for funding to help get the film made. </span></blockquote>
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<em style="font-size: x-large;">Queen Nanny Indiegogo Pitch Video with Roy T Anderson.</em><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">V</span><span style="font-size: large;">isit the youtube clip</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bXVq3hKbwU" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">here...</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Read TBBL's feature by Lee Pinkerton; 'Black Women, Shadism and the Entertainment Industry.' -<span style="color: #333333;"> <span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.thebritishblacklist.com/black-women-shadism-entertainment-industry-lee-pinkerton/" href="http://www.thebritishblacklist.com/black-women-shadism-entertainment-industry-lee-pinkerton/" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">visit here...</span></a></span></span></span></blockquote>
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Check out this documentary about the black citizens of France and their battle for social justice.</span></blockquote>
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Black France: The Immigration Problem - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NDwL3J6b4s" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">visit here...</span></a> </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange;"> </span></span></blockquote>
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<em style="font-size: x-large;">I love watching the super-heroes block buster movies such as The Hulk, Superman, Spiderman, Batman, Iron Man, Captain America, Thor and The Green Lantern. But I think its time Hollywood gave room to highlight my favourite of </em><em style="font-size: x-large;">them </em><em style="font-size: x-large;">all; The Black Panther. So as a festive treat, here's six episodes of the man himself; enjoy!!</em><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>The BLACK PANTHER</em></strong> <strong>- PART 1</strong> <strong>-</strong> <a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL1IpmuHff8" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL1IpmuHff8" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">visit here...</span></a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong>The</strong></em> <em><strong>BLACK PANTHER</strong></em> <strong>- PART 2 -</strong> <a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJGXjVbF6bw" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJGXjVbF6bw" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">visit here...</span></a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong>The</strong> <strong>BLACK PANTHER</strong></em> <strong>- PART 3</strong> <strong>-</strong> <a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJGXjVbF6bw" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJGXjVbF6bw" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">visit here...</span></a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong>The</strong></em> <em><strong>BLACK PANTHER</strong></em> <strong>- PART 4 -</strong> <a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw4m4JCn9bU" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw4m4JCn9bU" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">visit here...</span></a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong>The</strong> <strong>BLACK PANTHER</strong></em> <strong>- PART 5 -</strong> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6vXEqJ7ReQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">visit here...</span></a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong>The</strong></em> <em><strong>BLACK PANTHER</strong></em> <strong>- PART 6 -</strong> <a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6vXEqJ7ReQ" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6vXEqJ7ReQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">visit here...</span></a></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: x-large;">TRIBUTE TO JOHN DALTON</span></em></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">by his son Kieran Connell</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">JOHN DALTON 1948 - 2013</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My father, John Dalton, died of lung cancer in March 2013 aged 64. He published two novels,<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: orange;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.tindalstreet.co.uk/books/the-city-trap" href="http://www.tindalstreet.co.uk/books/the-city-trap" target="_blank" title="More about The City Trap"><span style="color: orange;">The City Trap</span></a> </span>(2002) and<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.tindalstreet.co.uk/books/the-concrete-sea" href="http://www.tindalstreet.co.uk/books/the-concrete-sea" target="_blank" title="More about The Concrete Sea"><span style="color: orange;">The Concrete Sea</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>(2005), which were set in Birmingham where he lived for most of his life. In the Guardian Newspaper in 2005,<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/mar/05/featuresreviews.guardianreview24" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/mar/05/featuresreviews.guardianreview24" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Maxim Jakubowski</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>wrote that his descriptions of Birmingham "begged worthy comparisons to Ian Rankin's Edinburgh" and described the novels – much to John's amusement – as "<a data-mce-href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/mar/05/featuresreviews.guardianreview24?INTCMP=SRCH" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/mar/05/featuresreviews.guardianreview24?INTCMP=SRCH" target="_blank" title="Maxim Jakubowski's review of The Concrete Sea"><span style="color: orange;">British dirty realism at its strongest</span></a>".</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Born in Nuneaton, West Midlands, the youngest of three children, John moved to Birmingham to go to university. He stayed there for the rest of his life and in the late 1970s began working at Trinity Arts Association in Small Heath, a diverse inner-city area of the city which had a strong West Indian community. He was the head of their Literature Department and mainly through his inspiration and enthusiasm, he founded The Small Heath Writers Workshop. In between 1978 to 1982, he had established a reputation for uncovering and encouraging writers in the Small Heath area. John was committed to the ethos of the community arts movement, which aimed to ensure that ordinary people were able to access the arts. While he was at Trinity he played a pivotal role in the publication in 1982 of<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Bad-Friday-9781784071110.aspx" href="http://www.feedaread.com/books/Bad-Friday-9781784071110.aspx" target="_blank"><em><span style="color: orange;">BAD FRIDAY</span></em></a>, a novel by the pioneering black British novelist<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/#/birmingham-writer-norman-samud/4568324525" href="http://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/#/birmingham-writer-norman-samud/4568324525" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Norman Samuda Smith</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">.</span></span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Exhausted from his time at Trinity Arts, John stopped working. He devoted much of his time to his children, me and my brother Laurence and focused on his writing. Later in his life, John became an adult education tutor. Although he hated the bureaucracies of the job, he enjoyed teaching and was always warmly thanked by his students, often with gifts of samosas or curries.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a few years apart, my parents eventually re-established their relationship, partly as a result of a shared enjoyment of country walks. Twelve months ago, before John was diagnosed with lung cancer, they bought a house together. John continued to write right up until the sudden deterioration in his health. He recently completed an "urban nature notebook". His last work was about a man who discovers a rare bird in his garden but decides not to tell anyone, preferring instead to enjoy it as a secret pleasure.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Norman & John at the Bad Friday Book Launch </span><span style="font-size: small;">New Beacon Books, London 1985</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In this issue of <em><strong><span style="color: orange;">PANTHER NEWSLETTER</span></strong></em> it is with great pleasure that the <em><span style="color: orange;">FEATURED STORY</span></em> is one of my favourites written by the late John Dalton; my first editor and mentor, but most of all a good friend. The man who introduced my novel Bad Friday to the world in 1982. We were recently working together, re-visiting the Bad Friday manuscript and preparing it for its re-publication. Rest In Peace my friend. It is truly a fine place you have flown to.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em>© </em>1984 John Dalton</span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I used to hate them, I used to think they were a right menace. Sundays were the worst. You'd begin to hear them from miles away; they would gradually wend their way closer until the blaring jingles were echoing in your street, were blasting through your open windows. I really used to hate ice cream vans. And even when their excruciating music had stopped, you had to put up with the loud droning engine which caused interference on the TV. Then they would rev up and drive off again and give you a further salvo of their rotten tune. They were far worse than the Salvation Army band that used to come round of a Sunday morning and wake me up. That was <em>"Onward Christian Soldiers" </em>at 10.00 am after a night on booze. I ended up throwing a bucket of water on them. But ice cream vans were far worse and you couldn't do anything to stop them. On a summer Sunday you could have two or three coming round every hour. All you could do was try and ignore them but that strategy never really worked, they still got to you and some mornings I'd wake up and find myself humming one of their stupid tunes. Well, this is what I used to think about them, but then something strange happened. It all started with Surinder, the little girl in the downstairs flat, it was she who introduced me to it. Suddenly for me and many others in our street, Sundays were never the same again...</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Continue reading <em><strong>ICE CREAM SUNDAYS;</strong></em></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ice-cream-sundays.pdf" href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ice-cream-sundays.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">here...</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;"><i><a href="http://wp.me/pDUcK-2pA" target="_blank">THE MUSICAL COA-COA BASKET</a></i></span></blockquote>
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<em><strong><a data-mce-href="http://www.bobmarley.com/" href="http://www.bobmarley.com/" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/bob-marley.jpg?w=300" height="225" src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/bob-marley.jpg?w=300" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="bob-marley" width="300" /></a></strong></em></div>
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<em><strong><a data-mce-href="http://www.bobmarley.com/" href="http://www.bobmarley.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange; font-size: large;">Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)</span></a></strong></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Music has always played an important role in all our lives, especially Reggae, the music genre first developed in Jamaica, strongly influenced by traditional African, American jazz and old-time rhythm and blues. Reggae owes its direct origins to the progressive development of Ska and Rocksteady in 1960s Jamaica. Right here, <em><strong><span style="color: orange;">THE MUSICAL COA-COA BASKET</span> </strong></em>will salute the legendary artists and recording studios from out of Jamaica that have placed reggae on the musical global map.</span></blockquote>
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<em><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWaFQcFxQHc" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWaFQcFxQHc" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">BIG YOUTH</span> </span></a></em></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" style="line-height: 1.5em;">He was (and still is) one of my favourite reggae Deejay ‘toasters’. During my teenage years and sound system days his music was the most popular at Blues Dances, parties and in all the dance halls. To me, he was a man with a message, one of the true foundation deejays; a reggae sensation of 1970s Jamaica and one of the first Rasta superstars, even before </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pfzQZwcJFY" data-mce-style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pfzQZwcJFY" style="line-height: 1.5em;" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Bob Marley</span></a><span data-mce-style="text-align: justify; line-height: 1.5em;" style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Born<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMB7GNue8jQ" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMB7GNue8jQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Manley Augustus Buchanan</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>April 19, 1949 in Kingston, Jamaica,<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fdx-9_lZhw" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fdx-9_lZhw" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Big Youth</span></a>'s formative years were spent growing up in and around Princess Street, the central downtown area of the city. He was given the name <a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwAfcoTb8aY" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwAfcoTb8aY" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Big Youth</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>from the early days of his childhood because he was the tallest among his friends, and by his co-workers at the Kingston Sheraton hotel, where he was employed as a mechanic.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK0nwvhIfOI" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK0nwvhIfOI" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Big Youth</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>arrived on the music scene in the wake of<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9yhge8W6ac" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9yhge8W6ac" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">U-Roy</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9FnTrfU_64" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9FnTrfU_64" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Dennis Alcapone</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>and<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci55rp0MyrQ" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci55rp0MyrQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">I-Roy</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">. </span>He quickly established his own style, and threatened to outshine them all. His main influence was obviously the <i>‘God Father’</i>,<i> ‘Daddy’</i> <a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-vrp3pGCXs" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-vrp3pGCXs" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">U Roy</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, </span>whose fame grew in a period in which the 'deejay style' conquered reggae music and the dance hall. U Roy took sound system deejaying to another level and developed the authentic, creative, improvised free-style verses, riding the rhythm that had the people in the dance halls rocking. Within<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uds2JNoqsvc" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uds2JNoqsvc" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">U Roy’s</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>musical psalms, Rastafari eventually became the main source of his inspiration, with some excerpts of U.S. ‘black culture’ he chanted powerful rhymes to enlighten and empower the thoughts, topics and opinions of the Jamaican ghetto people as well as the Afro-British youth of 1970s Britain.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvg6ZPhimMs" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvg6ZPhimMs" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Big Youth’s</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>first important musical education in this area however, was through Lord Tippertone Hi Fi Sound System where he began as a professional live deejay, alongside<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGgxAgTCFA8" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGgxAgTCFA8" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Jah Stitch</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>and with people like Wong Chu and Jah Wise as selectors. As his skills grew he created his unique way of chatting about Rasta consciousness and by putting into his lyrics the contents of the socially committed tunes of people like James Brown and Curtis Mayfield. A great experience in those early years was when he met other fellow musicians and singers in Orange Street, the musical avenue of downtown Kingston in which<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw8srpZQ4sQ" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw8srpZQ4sQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Big Youth</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>met people like<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWBAjvInSto" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWBAjvInSto" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Dennis Brown</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU959L4fLO0" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU959L4fLO0" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Gregory Isaacs</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>and<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z9h2nO5SIo" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z9h2nO5SIo" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">The Heptones</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">. </span>A great moment in<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRk3uiZgd98" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRk3uiZgd98" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Big Youth’s</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>growing career was the night in which Tippertone Sound beat King Tubby’s Hi Fi Sound in a sound competition with I Roy on the microphone alongside Tubby, (resident deejay U Roy was at that time not in Jamaica).<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1972 was a key year for the young<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI7m2SGhVMo" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI7m2SGhVMo" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Big Youth</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">: </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnw1nAVTmKY" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnw1nAVTmKY" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Gregory Isaacs</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>released<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuXXs9MDvBg" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuXXs9MDvBg" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Movie man’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, </span>his very first single and among his first single tracks, Jimmy Radway produced <a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXs8t08jO5c" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXs8t08jO5c" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘The best Big Youth’</span></a>, Lee Perry’s<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: orange;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dsYTn0-AEM" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dsYTn0-AEM" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Moving Version’</span></a> </span>(over the Wailers’<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnnGnV7wEdo" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnnGnV7wEdo" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Keep On Moving’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>version),<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQwKQB1efKk" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQwKQB1efKk" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Tell it black’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>and<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOSHI1ig0eQ" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOSHI1ig0eQ" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Phil Pratt thing’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>with Phil Pratt,<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qaTiPEXmgo" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qaTiPEXmgo" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Tippertone Rocking’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>and<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV4-6DdHQ1o" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV4-6DdHQ1o" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘The Killer’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>for the young producer Gussie Clarke.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With U Roy spending time abroad, Big Youth was the main deejay force around and he scored his first Number 1 hit with the brilliant <a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwOEziLXTFk" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwOEziLXTFk" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘S 90 Skank’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>done with Keith Hudson. Other 1972 highlights were<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smn-LUSVhBA" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smn-LUSVhBA" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Chi Chi Run’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>(produced by Prince Buster),<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0xoapdb7EU" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0xoapdb7EU" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Come into My Parlour’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>and<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E57nRkbg5PA" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E57nRkbg5PA" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Opportunity Rock’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>(produced by Glen Brown).<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1973 was another crucial year for<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW0tR-oVXno" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW0tR-oVXno" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Big Youth</span></a>: he scored again with<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ptkUFGOtc" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ptkUFGOtc" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘A So We Stay’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>(over Dennis Brown’s<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF2gmnM8T4o" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF2gmnM8T4o" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Money In My Pocket’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>riddim<span style="color: #333333;">)</span>, and<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxCyuU1Fo3s" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxCyuU1Fo3s" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Cool Breeze’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, </span>produced by Derrick Harriott over Keith & Tex’s<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZsMJGxL0wo" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZsMJGxL0wo" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Stop That Train’ </span></a>version.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In those years every singer's tune had his/her deejay-style counterpart and this was often preferred by the audience instead of the original tune. In 1973 other producers released their first albums: Gussie Clarke sold to Trojan Records<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X9RVfCULe4" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X9RVfCULe4" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Screaming Target’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>and Prince Buster released in Jamaica<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rONBuuM6Rk" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rONBuuM6Rk" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Chi Chi Run’</span></a>, an instrumental album with three <a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6opnZQCR3E" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6opnZQCR3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Big Youth</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>tunes.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJPt_3QgELM" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJPt_3QgELM" style="color: orange;" target="_blank">Big Youth</a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>was the number one artist in Jamaica, but he remained poor and was still living in a shack in the ghetto side of town, the was the reason why he began to work as a freelance artist founding his<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: orange;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtYpqLqOQiA" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtYpqLqOQiA" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Negusa Negast</span></a> </span>and <span style="color: orange;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjYB_amxWAE" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjYB_amxWAE" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Augustus Buchanan</span></a> </span>record labels, and began controlling his own work but kept a good relationship with many producers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">His popularity was getting bigger and bigger in Jamaica: he was the first artist to introduce Rasta terminology in his tunes and he sang about Natty Dreads long before Bob Marley, creating a brand new style. He was also one of the very first dreadlocked artists in Jamaica and his visual impact was even more surprising after a having a dentist implant in his three front teeth, three coloured stones to get a very distinct red gold & green flag.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 1974 he released on his<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RuvuNVRm1k" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RuvuNVRm1k" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Negusa Negast</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>imprint his third album<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44hMKqbYYBk" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44hMKqbYYBk" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Reggae Phenomenon’</span></a>, followed in 1975 by the excellent<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTiR1ieyQLo" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTiR1ieyQLo" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Dreadlocks Dread’</span></a>, an album that had and iconic standing with Burning Spear’s<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IltOFEh5RU" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IltOFEh5RU" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Marcus Garvey’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>and Bob Marley’s<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z1gZf6RniE" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z1gZf6RniE" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Natty Dread’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>an example of him co-dominating roots rock reggae.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Other great<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kp38KpVwSM" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kp38KpVwSM" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Big Youth</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>albums from the seventies were<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh9n1Jh-ytk" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh9n1Jh-ytk" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Natty Cultural Dread’</span></a>,<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJX4sQ0Nilw" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJX4sQ0Nilw" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Hit the Road Jack’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>and one of my all-time favourites<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9q6aznxR4w" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9q6aznxR4w" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Isaiah First Prophet of Old’</span></a>. During the continuous stream of his creativity of those years, Big Youth tried to raise his popularity as a singer, voicing versions of U.S. classics from Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye and even Burt Bacharach, but his singing didn't surpass his deejay ability.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the 1980s came,<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2MVx9_Wpog" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2MVx9_Wpog" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Big Youth</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>was an international reggae icon but his productivity decreased. In 1983 he released a live album recorded at Reggae Sunsplash and some fine works for the U.S. Heartbeat label. In the nineties he kept recording music, one of which was an album with Junior Reid entitled ‘Higher Ground’, and ‘Save the Children’ produced by Trevor Leggo Douglas, which was released in France by Declic Records and collaborating with Style Scott’s Dub Syndicate.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In 2001, the specialist Blood & Fire label dedicated to<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd6Px6C6V0c" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd6Px6C6V0c" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Big Youth</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>the monumental three-CD set<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z7B0770c_A" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z7B0770c_A" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">‘Natty Universal Dread</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>1973-1978’ and that was without doubt a tribute to some of<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIXMWq_ow7s" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIXMWq_ow7s" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Big Youth’s</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>best works. To this day he continues to have an impact on both his own nation and beyond.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-mce-href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbKLXhFsmvs&feature=youtube_gdata_player" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbKLXhFsmvs&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_blank"><span style="color: orange;">Jah Yout’</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>we salute you!</span></strong></div>
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<em><span style="font-size: x-large;">THE BIG YOUTH DISCOGRAPHY</span></em></h2>
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<em>1973 - SCREAMING TARGET</em></h2>
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<em>1976 - NATTY CULTURAL DREAD</em></h2>
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<a data-mce-href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/natty-cultural-dread.jpg" href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/natty-cultural-dread.jpg" style="color: #333333;"><img alt="Natty Cultural Dread" class="size-full wp-image-9297 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/natty-cultural-dread.jpg" height="96" src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/natty-cultural-dread.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="117" /></a><em style="color: #333333;"><strong><br /></strong></em><b>**********</b></div>
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<em>1977 - REGGAE PHENOMENON</em></h2>
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<a data-mce-href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/reggae-phenomenon.jpg" href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/reggae-phenomenon.jpg"><img alt="REGGAE PHENOMENON" class="size-full wp-image-9302 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/reggae-phenomenon.jpg" height="73" src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/reggae-phenomenon.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="75" /></a></div>
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<em>1978 - DREADLOCKS DREAD</em></h2>
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<a data-mce-href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/dreadlocks-dread.jpg" href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/dreadlocks-dread.jpg"><img alt="DREADLOCKS DREAD" class="size-full wp-image-9306 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/dreadlocks-dread.jpg" height="73" src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/dreadlocks-dread.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="75" /></a></div>
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<em>1978 - HIT THE ROAD JACK</em></h2>
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<a data-mce-href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/big-youth-hit-the-road-jack-lp.jpg" href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/big-youth-hit-the-road-jack-lp.jpg"><img alt="big youth Hit The Road Jack lp....." class="aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/big-youth-hit-the-road-jack-lp.jpg?w=147" height="105" src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/big-youth-hit-the-road-jack-lp.jpg?w=147" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="103" /></a></div>
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<em>1979 - ISAIAH FIRST PROPHET OF OLD</em></h2>
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<a data-mce-href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/isiaiah-first-prophet-of-old.jpg" href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/isiaiah-first-prophet-of-old.jpg"><img alt="ISIAIAH FIRST PROPHET OF OLD" class="size-full wp-image-9308" data-mce-src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/isiaiah-first-prophet-of-old.jpg" height="75" src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/isiaiah-first-prophet-of-old.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: default;" width="75" /></a></div>
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<em>1979 - REGGAE GI DEM DUB </em></h2>
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<a data-mce-href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/reggae-gi-dem-dub.jpg" href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/reggae-gi-dem-dub.jpg"><img alt="REGGAE GI DEM DUB" class=" wp-image-9309 aligncenter" data-mce-src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/reggae-gi-dem-dub.jpg" height="130" src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/reggae-gi-dem-dub.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="119" /></a></div>
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<em>1983 - THE CHANTING DREAD INNA FINE STYLE</em></h2>
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<em>1984 - LIVE AT REGGAE SUNSPLASH</em></h2>
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<em>1985 - A LUTA CONTINUA</em></h2>
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<em>1988 - MANIFESTATION</em></h2>
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<em>1991 - JAMMING IN THE HOUSE OF DREAD</em></h2>
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<em>1997 - HIGHER GROUNDS</em></h2>
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<em>2005 - MUSICOLOGY</em></h2>
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<em><span style="font-size: x-large;">"TIL THE NEXT ISSUE - EVERTING - BLESS</span></em></h2>
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<em><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ERNEST DYCHE</span></span></em></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">(The Photographic Historian of Birmingham, England)</span></h2>
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<a data-mce-href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ernest-dyche-photo-studio.jpg" href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ernest-dyche-photo-studio.jpg"><img alt="Ernest Dyche (Photo Studio)" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9386" data-mce-src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ernest-dyche-photo-studio.jpg?w=220" height="300" src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ernest-dyche-photo-studio.jpg?w=220" style="border: 0px; cursor: default; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="220" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ernest Dyche, (1887-1973) was a self-taught photographer who opened his first premises, The Palace Studio, at 32 Coventry Road, Bordesley Green around 1910. The studio was situated close to the Bordesley Palace Theatre, and Dyche developed a specialised trade in theatrical portraiture, producing photographs of the music hall and variety acts that performed on the Birmingham stage. He also produced individual, group, family and wedding portraits for those attending his studio.</span></blockquote>
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<a data-mce-href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/fa6b6fb868e38b4ec90dace578addb7f.jpg" href="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/fa6b6fb868e38b4ec90dace578addb7f.jpg"><img alt="fa6b6fb868e38b4ec90dace578addb7f" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-9934" data-mce-src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/fa6b6fb868e38b4ec90dace578addb7f.jpg?w=193" height="300" src="http://panthernewsletter1.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/fa6b6fb868e38b4ec90dace578addb7f.jpg?w=193" style="border: 0px; float: left;" width="193" /></a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Dyche opened a second studio on the Moseley Road, Balsall Heath a few years later. For a short while he took sittings at both sites, before concentrating on his newer premises, which had previously been used as a photographic studio in the early 1890s. Dyche trained his son, Malcolm (1921-1990), in the art of photographic portraiture, and for many years he worked alongside his father. In an effort to increase their trade, Malcolm photographed guests at dinners and social events in Birmingham, and together father and son promoted themselves as ‘Club land and Theatrical Photographers.’</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They continued taking ‘Club land and Theatrical’ portraits up until the mid-1950s, when the rise of cinema and television led to a decline in theatre attendance, and music halls and variety theatres began to close. The influx of cameras from Europe after the war also encouraged more people to take their own pictures, and together these two factors led to a decline in Dyche’s business.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This change occurred around the same time that the first wave of migrants arrived in Birmingham from Africa, the Caribbean and Indian sub-continent, many of whom visited Dyche’s studio to have portraits made for their friends and relatives back home. Over the next twenty-five years, the bulk of the studio’s clientele was drawn from Birmingham and Balsall Heath’s Asian and African-Caribbean communities. By the time it ceased operating in the mid-1980s; the studio had inadvertently documented the development of both the first and second generations of this initial wave of immigration, and helped to record an important phase in Birmingham’s history.</span></blockquote>
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<strong><em><span style="font-size: large;">"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture, is like a tree without roots."</span></em></strong></blockquote>
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<em><span style="font-size: x-large;">WHO IS THE REAL SANTA CLAUS?</span></em></h2>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">As the Festive season draws nearer to us, whether you celebrate Christmas or Kwanzaa, the debate about who Santa Claus/St. Nicholas really was, pops up every year. Two recent articles have appeared and were quite interesting reads.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Aisha Harris recently wrote: <em>"Santa Claus should not be white anymore. It's time to give St. Nik his long overdue makeover..."</em>: to read the full article;<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/holidays/2013/12/santa_claus_an_old_white_man_not_anymore_meet_santa_the_penguin_a_new_christmas.html" href="http://www.slate.com/articles/life/holidays/2013/12/santa_claus_an_old_white_man_not_anymore_meet_santa_the_penguin_a_new_christmas.html" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">visit here...</span></a></span>and watch the Fox News guests debate on Megyn Kelly's Show about what they thought about Aisha's article.</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Well here he is. Know your history. The original Saint Nicholas was a Moore (A Black Man). He was known for his generosity. He was born in the 3rd Century in the village of Patara, in what is now known as the southern coast of Turkey. He was a very wealthy Israelite of the ancient Roman Empire, possibly the northen tribe of Israel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Read more about the original St. Nicholas the Israelite<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.yahspeople.com/stnicholas.html" href="http://www.yahspeople.com/stnicholas.html" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">here...</span></a></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Born Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The son of an escaped slave and oyster salesman, Chester's childhood was relatively secure and very progressive. A man famous for his bravery serving as the first black war correspondent for a major newspaper during the civil war. He risked not only death but enslavement upon possible capture. Also, he would become England's first black lawyer. Read more about him:<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://blackinhistory.tumblr.com/post/62115496452/thomas-morris-chester#.UrWfsfRdVoM" href="http://blackinhistory.tumblr.com/post/62115496452/thomas-morris-chester#.UrWfsfRdVoM" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">visit here...</span></a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #c0c0c0;">Get the book: Thomas Morris Chester; The Black Civil War Correspondent<span style="color: silver;"> </span></span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1171280.Thomas_Morris_Chester_Black_Civil_War_Correspondent" href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1171280.Thomas_Morris_Chester_Black_Civil_War_Correspondent" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">here...</span></a></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">Mary Ellen Pleasant</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>- (1814 - 1904) - Born around 1814, on a plantation near Augusta, Georgia. There are a few facts and stories about Pleasant’s life that are still up in the air, but the major events of her life are generally agreed upon. She came from humble beginnings being born into slavery, but would be later freed and work as an indentured servant. Through this period, she helped with the abolitionist movement in the northeast through contacts at the store she worked at. Being of mixed heritage, she was often able to pass as White; read more<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://blackinhistory.tumblr.com/post/61451113376/mary-ellen-pleasant#.UrWlnfRdVoM" href="http://blackinhistory.tumblr.com/post/61451113376/mary-ellen-pleasant#.UrWlnfRdVoM" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">visit here...</span></a></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">Nancy Green "Aunt Jemima" </span><span data-mce-style="color: #c0c0c0;">-</span></span> (1834 - 1923) - The original Aunt Jemima Nancy Green was born into slavery on a plantation in 1834. She was discovered at age 59 in 1893. She was "the real Aunt Jemima" until her death in 1923 when she was struck and killed by a car in downtwon Chicago Illonois; read more about her<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/nancy-green-original-aunt-jemima" href="http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/nancy-green-original-aunt-jemima" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">here...</span></a></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">Alice Coachman</span> </span>- (1923 - ) - Alice Coachman specialised in the high jump. An African/American, she became the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal in the 1948 London games. <em>"Winning that gold medal meant everything to me. I didn't get to celebrate much after, because it was so crowded and everyone wanted to see me. But the one thing I did ask my coach for was a beer. I'd been with her for three years, so she knew that I didn't drink or smoke. 'You, a beer?' she asked laughing. I think I only drank about half..."</em>; read more about her<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/alice-coachman/" href="http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/alice-coachman/" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">visit here...</span></a></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">Nichelle Nichols</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>- (1932 - ) - Nichelle Nichols played Uhura on the original Star Trek. She was one of the first black women on a major television show who was not playing a servant. Martin Luther King Jr actually persuaded her to stay on the show when she was thinking of quitting to pursue a Broadway career; read more about her<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://blackinhistory.tumblr.com/post/49472690984/nichelle-nichols#.UrW8OvRdVoM" href="http://blackinhistory.tumblr.com/post/49472690984/nichelle-nichols#.UrW8OvRdVoM" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">here...</span></a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">Bill Russell</span> - (1934 - ) One of the most decorated sports legends in American history, he has quite a list of accomplishments; this includes winning 11 NBA Championships, a record for the most Championships won by an athlete in a North American sports league. He also broke barriers when he bcame coach of the Boston Celtics, being the first black coach in major U.S professional sports (and N.B.A). President Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011; Read more about him; <span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://blackinhistory.tumblr.com/post/66731555790/bill-russell#.UrW___RdVoM" href="http://blackinhistory.tumblr.com/post/66731555790/bill-russell#.UrW___RdVoM" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">visit here...</span></a></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">Henry Sampson</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>- (1934 - ) - Born Jackson, Mississippi, he was the first Afrcan/American to earn a PH.D. for nuclear engineering in the U.S. He was behind a few notable breakthroughs, this included inventing the "Gamma-Electrical Cell", which makes it possible to wirelessly receive and send audio signals through radio waves; this was a vital contribution to the future of the cellphone industry; read more<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://blackinhistory.tumblr.com/post/64725745775/henry-sampson#.UrXDXfRdVoM" href="http://blackinhistory.tumblr.com/post/64725745775/henry-sampson#.UrXDXfRdVoM" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">here...</span></a></span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span>- (1918 - 5 December 2013) - Born 1918, Mvezo, Cape Province, South Africa, a worldwide icon and inspiration to all (no matter what race you are). He is most famous as a South African Anti-Aparthied revolutionary and activist that became South Africa's first black President in 1994 after serving 27 years of wrongful imprisonment. Achieving what some considered impossible at the time, his administration successfully tackled the challenge of dismantling the institutionalised racism and class inequality from the many years of aparthied; read more about him<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://blackinhistory.tumblr.com/post/69127455818/nelson-mandela#.UrXHZ_RdVoM" href="http://blackinhistory.tumblr.com/post/69127455818/nelson-mandela#.UrXHZ_RdVoM" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">visit here...</span></a></span></span></blockquote>
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">...And as it is the season of Peace, Love and Goodwill to one and all, here's a proper little Kwanzaa message to you the massives;<span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dEReRidX2s&list=UUjU0M2JTb3qEumH-jXKYexA" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dEReRidX2s&list=UUjU0M2JTb3qEumH-jXKYexA" target="_blank"><span data-mce-style="color: #ff6600;" style="color: #ff6600;">visit here...</span></a></span></span></em></blockquote>
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