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Lots of talk, yes, but does anyone care, is anyone listening…? With all due respect to the civil rights icon, anyone and everyone born in the decades of the...

ON THE CUSP OF BHM 2020 Monday, January 20 was the celebration of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday. Actually, his official birthdate is January 15, 1929, but in...

Perhaps… But ‘vigilance’ remains the operative word as people go about the business of making a difference in the community in their individual way. So the ‘year-that-was’ is now...

Call it the “other season.” None of the others compare. It’s cold, but truly is “the most wonderful time of the year.” Seasons and seasonal celebrations be damned, none...

SIGNATURES TO ENGENDER CHANGE? Call it a pre-Christmas gift from the proverbial Black community; I’m talking about twenty thousand or so signatures on a petition (in the works since...

Just Conjuring Food For Thought…Novel Thomas There I was last weekend doing domestic, but necessary chores. And as normally is the case whenever I’m doing mundane stuff my mind...

No More Flashy Saturday Night Outfits on CBC – For Now I am no hockey fanatic by any stretch; but there was a time when I did watch hockey...

POLTICS AND RACENovel THOMAS There’s always a certain sense of excitement at election time as people—at least those with an interest in the recurring political exercise—contract the political fever....

SPECIOUS OR REAL Every time I hear that word “values” I immediately think money$, a commodity, something… anything of value that can easily be translated/or converted into money. But...

Whenever the subject of immigration is brought into the political arena and discourse, a whirlwind of discussion (not always civil, and in fact always contentious) is inevitable. Only because...