Editorial
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HOLD YOUR HEAD HIGH, STICK YOUR CHEST OUT. YOU CAN MAKE IT. IT GETS DARK SOMETIMES, BUT MORNING COMES. KEEP HOPE ALIVE. DON’T YOU SURRENDER! SUFFERING BREEDS CHARACTER, CHARACTER BREEDS FAITH. IN THE END FAITH WILL NOT DISAPPOINT Jesse Jackson, Keep Hope Alive
MORROCCO TO BUILD INNOVATION CITIES ART COUNCIL SUPPORTS CARNIVAL
NIKESHA LINDO
BLACK WOMEN AND BREAST CANCER LUTON STARTS CARNIVAL SEASON BARRINGTON LEVY TO MAKE FINAL ALBUM
ESTHER AUSTIN
FOOTBALL CALL FOR BLACK BOSSES EMOTIONAL CAPITAL PROGRAMME
NNN was originally founded May 17, 2002 after I was handed a list of e-mail addresses by Glenroy Watson at that year’s TUC Black Workers’ Conference and asked to circulate information to those on that list. During a career & management development course in 1996 led by Dr. Neslyn Watson Druee, I was told that “Black people don’t network very well”. In my pursuit to understand why that was, I learned what networking really was (and wasn’t!) then continued to build up my contacts via e-mail, attending events and sharing information with like-minded & interested people. NNN is an inclusive information service and e-network (without prejudice) of African and Caribbean professionals and other interested/like-minded bodies. Comprised primarily of TUC affiliate unions and their associates. African self-organisation group with a focus on linking the scattered Diaspora, at home and abroad. The primary aims of the group was to educate; stimulate conscious & intelligent debate; keep things positive and encourage sharing of relevant, factual information about African history, events structured around our history and to acknowledge the current contributions of Africans MAKING history today! “The term African-British is the name now used to describe the community previously mislabelled as Afro-Caribbean, Black British, UK Black, Coloured, Black Other and Black. It embraces all British nationals with antecedents originating directly from Africa or indirectly via African diasporic communities, such as those in the Caribbean and South America”. (Quote from The Ligali Organisation) I hope you enjoy this month’s magazine and the Luton Carnival, if your going!
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