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“It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, dignified First Lady in the White House,” a white woman in a place called Clay County, West Virginia, wrote in...

IRRIPRESSIBLE AND IRREPLACEABLE Just after 8 PM the night of Thursday, November 4, I received a call informing me that “Bob’s in the hospital… he’s down…” It sounded like...

Amidst the contention the STM quietly bides its time Generations of Black people from various parts of the world have written or told their stories about when and why...

Haiti. She’s a recurrent, permanent living disaster for millions, a cash cow for international disaster capitalists. Read journalist and author Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster...

THEIR PERCEPTION, OUR REALITY Prologue “Oh boy…” It has been a long, long time since I’ve witnessed that subtle behaviour. But a couple Saturdays ago, after having done some...

It’s the 21st century phase in Black peoples’ continuing fight for Civil Rights and what’s right […] Social construct, racial profiling, psychological effects, stereotypes; genocide: cultural and racial; demeaning;...

My recurring thought? I can’t believe my mother is dead [I remember] many years ago the daughter of a longtime family friend died. And, as is normally the case,...

You witnessed all the pomp and circumstance, and competitions of the Rio 2016 Summer Games I watched with some interest part of the opening ceremonies of the 31st Olympiad...

IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE Yes it is. And sometimes it “makes me wonder how I keep from goin’ under.” The words of preeminent rappers Grandmaster Flash at the...

The evening of June 17, 2015, around 9 p.m., 21-year-old Dylann “Storm” Roof, a white male with a Hitler-style haircut and dubious, sinister agenda, walked into the historic [AME]...