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...

A long history of not feeling WELCOME IN CANADA A recent visit to the Immigration Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, both shocked and validated what I already felt about...

The president of the USA Barack Obama said, “A person does not have to use the word nigger, not to be a racist, must whites just will not use...

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...

The massacre at the  Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina reminds us all that racism is deeply ingrained in the history of the USA The recent killings of...

April 24, 2015 represented the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in which approximately 800,000 to 1.5 million people were systematically exterminated by the government of the Ottoman Empire...

“It doesn’t stop,” said Dropout. “It happened again in South Carolina. A policeman (White) shot and killed a Black man. He puts five bullets into his back. The Black...

Professor asked Dropout, “What is the most beautiful day?” Po Boy put up his hand and said, “Today.” Crystal said, “Let’s be crystal clear. If you keep up with...

Youth caught in battles that weren’t theirs to fight We’ve all heard the stories of young people killed in the most tragic of ways: caught in battles that weren’t...

Dave Austin’s Fear of A Black Nation… garners two prestigious prizes and translated in Spanish and French Egbert Gaye In May 2013, in his groundbreaking book Fear of a...