5 Facebook Scams You Should Protect Yourself From
As Facebook has grown in popularity, it has also become a primary target for hackers and spammers. An increasing number of Facebook users are having their accounts compromised. Each newly compromised account is then used by the hackers and scammers to propagate their scam further. You don’t need to be an idiot [...]
Soulja Boy gives ’shout out’ to slave masters (Are these our childrens role models?)
Soulja Boy gives ’shout out’ to slave masters
Young rapper astounds crowd at awards bash by claiming that slavery helped black people get out of Africa
Soulja Boy … no word yet on his opinions of the Ku Klux Klan. Photograph: PR
He may well inspire a dance that’s worth 40m YouTube hits, but that doesn’t mean Soulja [...]
BBC iPlayer – World of a Child: Kamal Hussein
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Mount Stuart Primary School celebrates Islamic festival of Eid
Butetown’s Mount Stuart Primary School celebrates Islamic festival of Eid
Dec 1 2009 by Katie Norman, South Wales Echo
EID festivities have been in full swing at a primary school.
Pupils, parents and teachers all enjoyed a special assembly in celebration of the Islamic festival at Mount Stuart Primary School, in Butetown, Cardiff.
Youngsters took part in a special [...]
The iPhone comes to Tesco
The iPhone comes to Tesco — will a price war follow?
by Mike Butcher on November 25, 2009
[UK] Is an iPhone price war about to break out? After Vodafone and Orange bagged the iPhone – after O2’s two year monopoly expired in September – we learn today that Tesco, the UK supermarket leviathan, is [...]
Urban Agriculture Initiative
Community Helps Itself-CHI) are looking to set up a group who are interested in
Urban Agriculture. At the moment I am in the process of identifying a
plot of land in Butetown that can be handed over to this group, which
will become an allotment, where the group will beable to grow
organic,sustainable crops. If this is sucessful we [...]
What Do You Want For Butetown
Potentially millions of pounds to be spent in Butetown, please vote what you want the money to be spent on.
BBC 6 Music Plays It Again: The Reverend Al Green
The Reverend Al Green
Paul Sexton tells the story of soul man Al Green
Documentary finds rocksteady rhythm
Film walks bridge between ska and reggae
By: Bernard Perusse
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The Tamlins perform backup vocals in a scene from Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae. (MUSEE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN AND THE MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL )
There are at least a couple of versions of how rocksteady came to be. A common account involves scorching conditions in Jamaica during [...]