Women of the African Diaspora Website Celebrates

Website for Black Women is about to unveil a new look for its anniversary.
Rotterdam, NL/Stockholm, SWE October 29, 2008 – Women of the African Diaspora website is having a birthday complete with gifts for its readers. The website, which celebrates Black women, will unveil its new look and a new domain name on [...]

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Du Bois Lecture Series-Race & the New Europe

The W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Series-Race and the New Europe: Black Europeans, at the Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, College of Humanities & Fine Arts, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Remaining lectures:
Utz McKnight-Black Life in Sweden: Beyond Licorice and Chocolate http://www.as.ua.edu/…index.php, University of Alabama
November 13, 2008
4-5:30 p.m.
174-76 Campus Center, UMass Amherst
Dominic Thomas-Immigration and [...]

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BBC is looking at Africans in the Diaspora

The BBC’s African Perspective programme is investigating what life is like for some of an estimated 20 million Africans who live in the diaspora.
Ellen Otzen visits Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, to see how the 45,000 Africans there have adapted to their chilly Nordic home:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/…687491.stm
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Closer to the Dream – Obama event in France

LAST CHANCE to sign up for next Harvard Club event – screening of “Closer to the Dream” film on Barack Obama HLS ‘91
REMINDER
RSVP today for this coming Monday’s screening of "Closer to the Dream", a new documentary film about Harvard graduate (HLS ‘91) and US Presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Kindly note the request below to RSVP [...]

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Are you an African American going home Nov 4th?

Hejsan from Sweden,
Rose-Anne is writing an article for www.theroot.com about African Americans going home for the election.
If you know of any please contact her!
The deadline is the 28th:
clermontroseanne@yahoo.com
Adrianne
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Election Night Live Coverage with Black Women in Europe

Black Women in Europe will be blogging “live” in Stockholm on election night.
We will be at the Democrats Abroads dinner and election watch event at the Scandic Anglais Hotel at 10pmCET. There will be Swedish/American celebrities and Swedish TV4 is convering the event.
Then at 4.30amCET we will go to the American Embassy/American Chamber of Commerce [...]

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Meet Me In St. Louis

The population of St. Louis, Missouri is estimated to be just above three hundred fifty thousand.  Well over a hundred thousand people turned out to see Senator Barack Obama yesterday.  That’s a ratio of almost one out of three city residents.  This was Mr. Obama’s largest stateside rally to date.  And what’s even more remarkable [...]

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Events for Black History Month in the UK

October is Black History month in the UK. This year I have not posted any event notices as I have been focused on the 2008 US Presidential election when not brining you the profiles of accomplished Black Women in Europe.
Here is a roundup of events you may not know about that are yet to [...]

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