Day: January 31, 2010

FASHIONING FEBRUARY

Fellow blogger Ronke Adeyemi from The Musings of Ondo Lady is launching Fashioning February which is an editorial celebration of fashion focusing on New York Fashion Week and London Fashion Week. The month will be packed of features, interviews and profiles on the fashion scene and its fashionsistas. It all kicks off tomorrow with a profile on mega Blogger Susie Bubble who is February’s Blogger of the Month, then there is an interview with the lovely, Gisele Scanlon, author of the iconic []

UK NEWS: ETHNIC MINORITY STAFF PAID 10% LESS THAN WHITE WORKERS AT TREVOR PHILLIPS EQUALITY WATCHDOG

Oh the shame Trevor! Via The Mail Online The Government’s controversial equality watchdog was last night accused of ‘rank hypocrisy’ for flouting its own policies on fair pay. The Equality and Human Rights Commission has angered business leaders by ordering a crackdown on hard-pressed companies that fail to pay the same rates to employees doing similar work. But official figures show that more than two years after it was set up to stamp out discrimination, the commission is paying its own ethnic []

TEN AMERICAN CHRISTIANS ARRESTED TRYING TO TAKE 33 CHILDREN OUT OF HAITI

Via The Mail Online A group of 10 American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital today after trying take 33 children out of the country. The church group, most of them from Idaho, allegedly lacked the proper documents when they were arrested on Friday night in a bus along with children from 2 months to 12 years old who had survived the catastrophic earthquake. The group say they were setting up an orphanage across the border in the Dominican Republic. []