Fix your mind on Truth
Advent is here! Usually it is the season that marks the beginning of Christmas celebrations; a time for healing and recalling the merriment of yore. …
The revolution is being televised and tweeted
One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. That’s the sound of a recount. Slow. Measured. Painful. Necessary. Florida has long been pointed to as the harbinger …
Dreams deferred, killed: Go Vote!
Tis the season. We get to put on our various costumes and masks and go out for a little trick and treat, and in the …
Say her name, say her name! OMAROSA
In “UNHINGED: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House,” we read how folk in Omarosa’s wobbly orbit get burned by their proximity to her. …
If not us, then who?
Well, it has come to this: recent headlines indicate that the POTUS is twisting into a myriad of knots (re his story about the meetings …
Immigration is not slavery
Too many folk continue to conflate the slave trade, that holocaust experience of captured Africans, with the suffering of other immigrants. Every day, there is …
They came from good stock
Like so many others, I went in search of my roots. So, I sent in a bit of my saliva to Ancestry.Com to have my …
Penalty for protest: UnAmerican
“My Country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing……….” I have heard these words repeatedly over the past few days. They …
Yes, our history has been full of choices
It has taken more than four hundred years to go from being born “Kunta Kinte” to being made into “Toby,” to becoming Kanye West. What …
The legacy of lynching is hard to fathom
BY ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GRAY In case you missed it, a memorial to honor lynching victims has opened in Montgomery, Alabama. Kudos to Bryan Stevenson, founder of …