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UK NEWS: MET POLICE HIT BY CLAIM IT OPERATED SEGREGATED VANS FOR BLACK AND WHITE OFFICERS

February 25, 2009

Via The Guardian An “apartheid” system of discrimination and racist bullying operated at a London police station, according to claims made yesterday on the tenth anniversary of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry report. An Asian police community support officer alleged that he and other ethnic minority officers were made to travel separately from white officers. Asad Saeed, who will make his claims at an employment tribunal tomorrow, told in legal documents how one officer ordered a black woman colleague to get out of […]

UK NEWS/TV: EASTENDERS TO AIR IT’S FIRST EPISODE FEATURING ENTIRELY BLACK CAST / VERDICT

February 24, 2009

Via BBC News EastEnders is to air the first episode featuring an entirely black cast for the first time in its 23-year history. Tonight’s programme will focus entirely on characters Patrick Trueman, Denise Wicks, fiance Lucas, and her daughters Chelsea and Libby. Patrick reminisces about London in the 1950s after his arrival from the Caribbean in the episode. The action will be set chiefly in his house, which is also the home of the other characters. The family discuss history around the […]

UK MUSIC NEWS: CHOONG FAMILY SET TO DROP NEW ALBUM/VIDEO SHOOT NEWS

February 19, 2009

After a hiatus UK Hip Hop group the Choong Family have returned and will release their new album ‘Baptism Of Fire’ at the end of April through Gridlockaz. The group will be filming a video to support the release and are inviting members of the public to come along to be a part of it. Shoot details below…. Date: Saturday 28th February 2009 Location Address: Shoreditch Studio, Unit 2 Batemans Row, Curtain Road, London EC1V Calling Time: 8am http://www.myspace.com/choongfam http://www.choongfam.com

UK MUSIC: BASHY – ‘I SEE PEOPLE’

December 23, 2008

I’m not really feeling this. Bashy’s lyrical content here is conscious and thought provoking, but the messy production and the speeded up background vocals (soooo 2004) that you hear throughout only serve as a distraction. Bashy’s new album Bashy.com is out in stores now. Your thoughts please…….

UK MUSIC NEWS: X FACTOR WINNER ALEXANDRA BURKE TOPS THE CHRISTMAS SINGLES CHART

December 21, 2008

No surprises here….. Via BBC News Newly-crowned X Factor queen Alexandra Burke has topped the Christmas singles chart with Hallelujah. Burke won the battle for Christmas number one ahead of the late Jeff Buckley, whose version of the same song was in second place. It is 51 years since the same song sat at numbers one and two, and the first time ever at Christmas. Burke’s Hallelujah became the fastest-selling single by a female solo artist, with 576,000 copies sold. Congratulations Alexandra. […]

UK EVENT: URBAN MUSIC DJ BATTLE (LONDON)

December 4, 2008

This is going to be the biggest DJ Battle ever to hit the UK, pitting the worlds best known DJs together in a battle to see who really is the best! £5000 WINNER TAKES ALL!!! The DJs: (USA) DJ Green Lantern – Former official DJ for Eminem (USA) DJ Scratchator – Official DJ for Busta Rhymes & Flipmode (USA) DJ Nonstop – Official DJ for DMX (UK) DJ 279 – Official Choice FM DJ (UK) DJ Dub Plate Mex – Official So Solid DJ […]

UK NEWS: MOTHER LOSES LIBEL CASE AGAINST DAUGHTER WHO WROTE A BOOK ABOUT HER ABUSIVE CHILDHOOD

December 2, 2008

Constance Briscoe and Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell The mother of a high-flying barrister has lost her libel case over a book in which her daughter accused her of child abuse. Carmen Briscoe-Mitchell, 74, claimed Constance Briscoe, one of the first black women to sit as a judge in Britain, had written a ‘piece of fiction’ in her best-selling memoir, Ugly. She sued part-time judge Ms Briscoe, 51, and publishers Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, who brought out her memoir in January 2006. Both denied libel […]

UK MUSIC: WILEY FT KANO AND GHETTS – ‘SHE GLOWIN’

November 29, 2008

I see that the UK’s now jumping on the vocoder bandwagon……… Anyway Wiley, Kano and Ghetts attempt to get their sexy on in the video and on this track for the ladies. The video and the track make me smile…….. Plus I am in SHOCK right now… a UK music video featuring male black artists, and they have actually hired black women to appear in the video alongside them. For once they haven’t been relegated the background!!!!! Also in one scene Ghetts is sitting next to a gorgeous dark skinned sista. Wow… First […]