Day: July 16, 2012

ONLINE PETITION: ALLOW THE VOICE NEWSPAPER MEDIA ACCREDITATION FOR THE OLYMPICS 2012

July 16, 2012

Yesterday I posted the news that Britain’s leading black newspaper (for 30 years) The Voice had been denied press accreditation to cover the 2012 games. However a letter from the BOA (British Olympic Association) states that the request has apparently been added to their “waiting list”. News that the highly respected and prominent African-Caribbean publication had been denied access in to the Olympic stadium has now gone viral  (the BOA didn’t see this coming) and now an online petition has been set […]

UK NEWS: DOREEN LAWRENCE TO JOIN OLYMPIC FLAME RELAY

July 16, 2012

The Press Association reports that Doreen Lawrence, the mother of murdered black London teenager Stephen Lawrence, will be one of the torchbearers carrying the Olympic Flame on its last days before the start of the 2012 Games. Mrs Lawrence (59) will carry the torch on July 23 as the torch relay winds its way through London ahead of the opening ceremony on July 27. She will carry the flame into the forecourt of the Stephen Lawrence Centre in Deptford, south east London, […]