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Which is it:  Celebrating History or Celebrity? History has a broad definition, but I like the first part of Merriam Webster’s; in part it explains that it is “[…]...

PRESIDENTIAL INEPTITUDE While some of the world was preoccupied with the atrocities in Paris, France, earlier this month—the killings of 17 innocent people, most of them employees of the...

Turn the spotlight on Svens N Telemaque Growing up in Miami, Florida, in the 198Os, the broken home phenomenon, something that was beyond his control, unfortunately became Svens Télémaque’s...

2015: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE As the Yuletide season was winding down, I had a long conversation with a Sista. As conversations go, we invariably talked about...

THE WHITE CATALYSTS… The beneficiaries of others’ centuries of repression must be implicated in the 21st century change. It’s so easy to become distracted by the predictability and redundancy...

Killing, Exoneration, Racial Polarization: It Must Be America Many years ago I knew a man named Steve. Each time I ran into him walking along the sidewalk with his...

SEX “Sex and drugs and Rock’n’Roll…” So goes the lyrics of a pop/rock song on the radio a decade or two ago. And many people in tune with music...

WE KNOW HOW CORRUPTION IMPACTS… Corruption! It’s a worldwide phenomenon. Go to any part of the world and people you come in contact with would have a story to...

  Prelude On September 23, Vancouver Canucks prospect Jordan Subban scored the team’s first goal in a preseason game against the San Jose Sharks. It was his first goal...

I watched with disbelief and interest, among other feelings, as another all-too-familiar scenario played out on the CBS Evening News. That was late last month. It was another police...