Category: 2008 US Presidential campaigns
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730 newspaper front pages from 66 countries
The Newseum has a collection of front page images from 730 newspapers on 5 November 2008: http://www.newseum.org/?rchive.asp It is interesting to see how many made Obama’s victory a front page story. It may be safe to assume that there would have been front page coverage of the election results in as many papers if the…
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World leaders welcome Obama presidency
World leaders hail Barack Obama’s historic victory. Leaders around the world have congratulated Democratic candidate Barack Obama on his landslide victory in the US presidential election. Just hours after news spread that Obama will be the first African-American to take office at the White House, leaders from around the world hailed the prospect of change…
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Black Women in Europe
A blog post from the European Union Commissioner for Employment Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Vladimir Spidla (http://ec.europa.eu/…tem_en.cfm: Recently a friend of mine lent me an interesting book on the history of New York. It’s packed with historical maps, pictures and photos showing how Manhattan was settled, and its various building booms and economic highs…
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Racism & Discrimination against Blacks in Europe
September 24, 2008 Contact: Lale Mamaux Phone: (202) 225-1901 Cell: (202) 279-0442 Hastings Urges Increased Support for Combating Racism and Discrimination against Blacks and Other Minorities in Europe(Washington, D.C.) Today, Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL), Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission), introduced a resolution (http://blog.blackwomenineurope.com/…H.RES.1496)</a> calling on the…
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Vote From Abroad
The whole world is watching to see who the American people will choose as their next President. In fact they are even voting: http://www.voteforpresident.org/ Vote For President While their votes don?t count towards electing the US President, the votes of Black American Expatriates do. Are you prepared to cast your vote? Whether you are a…
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Women of the African Diaspora Site Anniversary
Dear Sisters, Sandra Rafaela of the Afro European Sisters Network (http://www.myspace.com/aesn) and Adrianne George of the Black Women in Europe Blog (http://blog.blackwomenineurope.com/) are pleased to announce that their jointly created Women of the African Diaspora (WAD-http://www.aesn.eu/bwie) website and social network (http://blackwomenineurope.ning.com)will/ celebrate their one year anniversary on 1 November 2008. During the first year the…
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African week in the European Parliament
08.09.2008 – 11.09.2008 09:00 – 18:00 African week on the Intercultural Dialogue in the European Parliament Link to program: http://www.interculturaldialogue2008.eu/…ogramm.pdf European Parliament Rue Wiertz 60 1047 Brussels Phone: +32 (0)2 284 21 11 Fax: +32 (0)2 284 69 74 Email: info@europarl.eu.int Link to the organizer: http://www.europarl.eu.int/ URL of event: http://www.interculturaldialogue2008.eu/405.0.html[tt_news]=339&tx_ttnews[backPid]=333&cHash=ae32f6f43d Registration required: Thomas Dudrap Phone:…
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Black European Women’s Council’s Lauch 2nd panel
Second panel. Mobile post sent by BlackWomenInEurope using Utterz. Replies.
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Black European Women’s Council Launch panel 2
Second panelists. Mobile post sent by BlackWomenInEurope using Utterz. Replies.
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Black European Women’s Council Launch 2nd panel
Second panelists: Brenda King, Vladimir Spidla, Christa Prets, Peter Moore, Morten Kjaerim, Hellen Felter, Sylvia Serbin, Leah Sempaya, and Beatrice Achaleke. Mobile post sent by BlackWomenInEurope using Utterz. Replies.