Archive for July, 2011

Press release by Sistatalk©

The African Holocaust the British government would like us to forget.

Last week the Big Lottery refused Windrush Foundation a grant of £98,000 annually to run a project that would have organised major events and activities on August 23 and throughout the year. The British Government in a Press Release issued on 13 December 2007 announced that August 23 each year would be a national day in the UK for commemorating transatlantic slavery and its abolition.

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Press release by Debra (MTA Productions LTD)©

Most production companies who want to get a sitcom onto television follow a set path. Have an idea. Make a pilot. Pitch it. And keep on pitching it. Hopefully it will get picked up. But what happens if, like TV Producer and director Debra Odutuyo, it doesn’t get picked up even though you know you have a hit show on your hands and you have a hungry and waiting audience?

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The younger generation are not as colour-blind as we believe

Research by anti-racism charity Show Racism the Red Card revealed that racism is rife in English schools with 83 percent of teachers questioned saying that they had witnessed racist comments, attitudes and behaviour from their students.

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