Archive 02

Welcome to the list of articles for the year 2001

Essential reading and a wealth of information on the black experience from past issues of The Chronicle. Please scroll down and click to view selected articles.

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12/21/01 - Media - Press polls: exploitative or useful allies? The issue is simply this: does polling about race in Britain help or hinder our understanding of racial problems and the lack of progress of Black people? Our comment on the Observer poll explores this question.

12/21/01 - Charity Action - Vale of tears - Saving Black women from prison. Though we may applaud the Black contribution to British society, a charity director asks for our vital support for Black women, citizens and foreigners, locked away in the nation's prisons.

12/21/01 - WTC Special 2 - African Americans witnessed the events of 9/11 with horror and hatred of evil. But Blacks have felt hatred many times in America. They still recall the handiwork of the lynchers and the bombers: the black bodies hanging from southern trees, the mangled bodies of Black schoolchildren and the fiery ruins of torched Black churches.

11/16/01 - Features and Opinion - UK apartheid? - No! Chronicle editor speaks to Oxford students -In this climate of controversy. Text of Oxford remarks - After the 9-11 event is the end in sight for No.1?

10/16/01 Black History Month - New Slant On Black Britain - Unlock the past by attending the month's lectures and events - Books: New and noteworthy

10/04/01 - International News Sites

10/02/01 - WTC: Special - Dissent, democracy, debate

09/01/01 - World Conference on Racism - NGOs tackle key issues at UN race meeting

08/16/01 - Opinions and features

08/05/01 Arts - A Passion for Opera "Our music is from the heart" say black singers - Love's Eyes - Tanka Japanese poems by Lenard D Moore - Alphabets of Poetry, and The Eve of St Agnes' by Malcolm Massiah

07/11/01 Current Affairs - Riot Cities: Chaos or Community? - Rape of the sea forest - Frederick Douglass on the Fourth of July 1852

06/26/01 Media - Race in the newsroom - The Bi-Media chasm - Ode to Black journalists

06/08/01 Sport - Black Athletes: A race apart? - "Get ready to rumble."

06/01/01 Careers - Choosing Sociology and Changing Society - Taking care of business with an MBA degree - People on the move: retail, banking, web design, jazz fusion and beauty

05/25/01 Race equality - UN race debate backed by Chronicleworld.org - We need a "Magna carta" for our time - Internet gives vital boost to black unity and "people power" at Durban - US Black Radical Congress targets imperatives for justice

05/07/01 Politics - Crystal balling the General Elections 2001 - Muslim, Ethnic Candidates denied winnable seats in General Elections 2001

01/15/01 History - Black pathfinders in modern British politics: The Hon. Bernie Grant and Lord David Pitt - Solidarity on Slavery Da : Open Letter to the Government Race Relations Forum - Blacks and the blitz: Bravery amidst the flames - The shaping of Black London: A Capsule History

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