Stories that must be told
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY Do you realize that our history is, at best, being rewritten? At worst, it is being erased. And how is that happening? …
Mother Nature’s new normal
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY Right now we need to prepare for the ‘new normal’, and begin to anticipate a much longer future out. We need to …
Black people are a displaced people
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY For years, I struggled with a clear and tenable definition of myself: I was born colored; became a Negro, then a Black …
Dangerous is the state of our nations affairs
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS GARY These days, many folk I know talk in code. No one wants to call out his name. We simply jump right …
America’s food deserts define our national character
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY Once, while in graduate school, I read a book that taught how to lie with statistics, so I won’t bore you here …
African ancestry combines races
ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY I dare say that most African Americans are of mixed race; every day we have DNA test results proving that. Some of our …
America the divided
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY I am spinning with a variety of reactions to the suicide bombings, terrorists’ attacks, an outrageous public lynching (Richard Collin III), and …
Dangerous time to be black in America
By ANOTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY It’s happening! The hounds have been unleashed, making this a peculiarly dangerous time to be black in America, once more, and still …
‘White Trash’
By ANTONIAWILLIAMS-GARY There were so many flash points made about Andrew Jackson last week, and admittedly, I didn’t know much about him. At least, nothing …
Words of conflict precede acts of war
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY Quick! Look over there: it’s the MOABs! But not to worry, only ISIS were killed, and it was so far away from …