By Jamil Smith In the last week or so, Bernie Sanders has been questioned twice on national television about high-profile endorsements that he didn’t win. Both times, he provided strange answers….
By Christine Emba Taking it for granted that when you’re shopping alone, you probably won’t be followed or harassed. Knowing that if you ask to speak to “the person in charge,” you’ll…
By Jamil Smith In the last week or so, Bernie Sanders has been questioned twice on national television about high-profile endorsements that he didn’t win. Both times, he provided strange answers….
By: Charles D. Ellison A voter, Treveyon Brock, casts his ballot as people wait in line at a polling place Nov. 4, 2014, near Ferguson, Mo. Admit it: When you finally…
Days before the opening of the World Economic Forum, Oxfam, the international organization that works on world poverty issues, released a report that addressed inequality. They found the international wealth…
By: Charles D. Ellison A voter, Treveyon Brock, casts his ballot as people wait in line at a polling place Nov. 4, 2014, near Ferguson, Mo. Admit it: When you finally…
As we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, memories of his last birthday flood my mind. He rose early and came to work. He was convening leaders from across regions and…
By Tennyson S.D. Joseph For three days in the New Year (Wednesday 13th to Friday 15th), the Cave Hill Campus of the University of West Indies hosted over eighty participants…
President Obama did his thing when he delivered the State of the Union Address (SOU) on Tuesday night. There was confidence in his speech, some off-the-cuff humor and a little…
The passing of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing (1935-2016) calls on us to pause and pay rightful homage to her—this accomplished and committed psychiatrist, activist-intellectual, author, way-opener and…
Recently much attention has been made of President Obama’s “bucket list,” those things he would like to accomplish before the end of his term. Among the items on his list is a visit to Cuba. This would be a dramatic event, climaxing one of the signature achievements of his presidency – breaking the decades- long diplomatic and economic isolation of Cuba to usher in a new era of normalized relations. The site of an American President, the first African American President, being welcomed in Cuba, an Afro-Hispanic nation, would be stunning and historic!
By: Panama Jackson 490040062-president-barack-obama-and-chinese-president-xi-jinping President Barack Obama toasts during a state dinner in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 25, 2015. While perusing Facebook a…