BLACK UNITY Winter 2013
W inter
2013
Black
Unity
ORGANISATION OF BLACK UNITY NEWSLETTER AND BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Are you
Black or African?
Inside this Issue…
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Are you Black or African?
Cover Story continued.
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Join OBU
What we do
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In the name of the father?
Dr Julius Garvey
Miracle Moringa
OBU celebrates 5000 website hits
and increasing support from the
community
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Affiliated Organisation: Aspire4u
OBU community events in pictures
Page 5-7 BU Business Directory
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Cover Photo courtesy of www.africaunlimited.com
In a debate that has raged in the community for
decades, Kehinde Andrews asks what’s in a
name?
Negro, Coloured, Black, African, West Indian,
Caribbean: all have been used at different times and different
people use these labels to name us. The use of different terms has
been a subject of debate and each has been used by different
organisations. OBU has specifically embraced ‘Black’ because of the
importance of the history and politics behind the term.
‘What we want’ the community
campaign continues
Marcus Garvey Nursery:
OBU’s first Community Project
Negro to Black
The most significant shift in the naming of our people was the move
from using Negro to embracing Black. This came out at a time when
our people in the United States were frustrated with the mainstream
Civil Rights approach to gaining racial inequality in society. The old
style of Civil Rights leadership, working with the White power
structure was seen by a newer generation of activists as inadequate
to address the issues of the community. Within the Civil Rights
movement activists began chanting Black Power and rejecting the
old school approach. At the 1963 March on Washington all but one of
the speakers used the term Negro when talking to the crowd.
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