RATCHETING UP THE PRESSURE Opinions

RATCHETING UP THE PRESSURE

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;...

A New Educational Paradigm Part I Opinions

A New Educational Paradigm Part I

Beyond Darwinism: “The problem in today’s education is that the root motivation is the acquisition of things and material wealth rather than cultivation of the human spirit.” The Honorable...

Race Matters all the time Opinions

Race Matters all the time

Money, politics, race and repercussions… People are taking a stand in a changing world It was another hot, humid, Montreal day. But for some unknown reason this particular day...

Black Lives Matter and Basic Civics Opinions

Black Lives Matter and Basic Civics

For decades, Black activists have organized in response to police brutality, but part of the underlying reason for the visibility and nomenclature of the current Black Lives Matter movement...

Video cameras, cell phones and the Internet are illuminating it Opinions

Video cameras, cell phones and the Internet are illuminating it

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...

IS THE RACE WAR FINALLY ON?  HOPE NOT FOR AMERICA’S SAKE Opinions

IS THE RACE WAR FINALLY ON? HOPE NOT FOR AMERICA’S SAKE

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]...

Of Lives that matter and  that day in the park
Entertainment

Of Lives that matter and that day in the park

So Black Lives Matter movements have taken over my newsfeed on Facebook and Instagram for the pass few weeks through hashtags, videos and images. Unless you’re living under a...

As the pall of gloom lifts—All parts of the problem need to be exposed Opinions

As the pall of gloom lifts—All parts of the problem need to be exposed

Firstly permit me to offer my condolences to the family and loved ones of the two recently slain Black individuals Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, the slain Dallas policemen,...

P.K. Subban’s Wake-up Call
Community News

P.K. Subban’s Wake-up Call

Egbert Gaye The alarm has been sounding for the past several years, but PK Subban hasn’t been listening. He was too deeply engrossed in his thing: playing hockey and...

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE … Opinions

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE …

The ubiquitous-ness of racism Needless to say the killing of 49 innocent people at an Orlando night club is a real human tragedy, regardless of whether anyone agrees with...