Today’s topics are: The failure of schools to teach history has helped create a wider crisis of identity. Agree? http://tgr.ph/qPJgVh Has the shadow of colonialism been lifted off of Africa? http://bit.ly/p47Kp4 Would you turn tradition on its head and propose to your man? http://bit.ly/qI2ypM Are gap years a new form of colonialism? http://bit.ly/qlhxrb To respond [...]
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#TalkingTuesdays August 30
Posted by admin on August 29th, 2011
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Tags: Africa, Black history, Britain, British, British history, Colonialism, exchange, Gap Year, gap year programmes, Gap year students, history, history books, London riots, marriage, marriage proposal, proposal, proposing, relationships, skills exchange, students, TalkingTuesdays, teaching, teaching history, tuesdays, wedding, weddings 
No Comments »#TalkingTuesdays July 12
Posted by admin on July 12th, 2011
Today’s topics are: Will the UK media landscape be a better place without the News of the World? http://bbc.in/mSYqS8 If a trend has its roots in racism or sexism; should it be followed in present day? #planking http://bit.ly/rtxpxR Cameron’s idea to give ‘power to the people’ re. public services; genius or a pending catastrophe? http://bbc.in/rqGdra When [...]
Posted in #TalkingTuesdays Tags: Beckham, big society, Black, Black females, black people, black women, Cameron, cargo, charity, Chris Brown, churnalism, community, Conservative, conservative government, craze, cuts, daughter, David Beckham, David Cameron, females, government, gutter journalism, Harper, Harper Seven, journalism, journalists, new baby, new baby girl, News Corp, News International, News of the World, newspaper, NoW, people colour, planking, planking craze, planking trend, Posh Spice, public sector, public services, public services reform, Rebbeca Wade, Rebecca Brooks, reform, Rupert, Rupert Murdoch, sensational, slave, slave cargo, slave ship, slaves, talking, talking tuesdays, TalkingTuesdays, The Beckham's, The Sun, Tories, tuesdays, Victoria Beckham, Wapping, women, women of colour No Comments »#TalkingTuesdays July 5
Posted by admin on July 5th, 2011
Today’s topics are: Is it sexist for Harrods to insist their female workers should wear full make up while at work? http://bit.ly/moY4Ir Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has urged UK businesses to give jobs to Britons first. Right or modern racism? http://bbc.in/lnS15d Do you think stereotypes can ever help the individual it labels? http://bit.ly/jTbxlK [...]
Posted in #TalkingTuesdays Tags: Black, black female graduates, black female professionals, Black females, black men, black people, black professionals, black women, black women graduates, British, Britons, college, degree, female graduates, female professionals, female shop assistants, females, graduates, Harrods, Iain Duncan Smith, Ian Duncan-Smith, IDS, joblessness, jobs, jobs for British, labelling, labels, make up, makeup, pensions, people colour, professionals, shop assistants, stereotypes, talking, talking tuesdays, TalkingTuesdays, tuesdays, unemployed, unemployment, university, women, women graduates, women of colour, women professionals, work, work and pensions No Comments »#TalkingTuesdays May 17
Posted by admin on May 17th, 2011
Today’s topics are: NFL player Albert Haynesworth states ‘he doesn’t even like Black girls’ as his defence against sexual assault of a Black waitress, is this valid? http://bit.ly/ilzhIe Can the word like ‘slut’ ever be empowering for women? http://bbc.in/muxQ2G #TalkingTuesdays Was the White House wrong for inviting Rapper Common and singer Jill Scott [...]
Posted in #TalkingTuesdays Tags: albert haynesworth, Black, black female networking, black people, black women, common, Common Sense, conversation, debate, discussion, interracial mixing, Ireland, Jill Scott, Michelle Obama, mixed marriages, monarch, Northern Ireland, obama, official visit, poetry, poetry night, queen, racism, racist, Rapper Common, redskins, sexual assault, singer, singer Jill Scott, slut, slut walk, slutwalk, talking, talking tuesdays, the queen, The White House, the white house poetry night, tuesday, tuesdays, visit, White House, women, women of colour No Comments »