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As I approached the age of consent, to vote, in the 1960s a few interesting names were on the national political stage: Robert Stanfield, David Lewis, Tommy Douglas, John...

Sometimes the tongue is quicker than the mind. That was evident in the federal political leaders debate the night of Thursday, September 17, in Calgary, AB. In keeping with...

When Frantz Fanon’s Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth) was published in 1961, the Martiniquan-born psychoanalyst, social philosopher, historian, activist, revolutionary… was specifically referring to...

Almost everyone in America has one and the upshot is predictable Of course “[…] all lives matter,” Sherriff Ron Hickman. Unfortunately it took the “cold-blooded” killing of one of...

I can hardly see the Black in the light Montreal is like some of those perennially “under construction” websites. And it has been that for a decade or more....

Remembering Julian Bond   Hero and charismatic are two of many descriptions encapsulating the life and times of 1960s U.S. civil rights activist Julian Bond. He died the night...

WHAT THE… I GIVE UP Post Hurricane Katrina, at a fundraiser for the victims of the devastating storm which hammered New Orleans in 2005, Kanye West exhorted, “George Bush...

“We cannot rewrite history, but we can right history,” John C. Hayes III, a South Carolina Circuit Judge said in expunging the 30 days hard labor sentence handed out...

TELLING IT LIKE IT IS The thing about political life is that among many other things politicians have to measure their words (the things that they say, publicly) for...

Racism, Guns, Politics, Geopolitics… It must be America Even in the face of irrefutable evidence, white people, the creators of the system in which we live, have to take...