...Angola is reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s description of the plantation “Sweet Home” in her novel Beloved—a physically beautiful and natural space that is the site of great hidden suffering and degradation. It is a place where men are made to be docile “yes sir” and “yes ma’m” boys—where only the compliant and subservient are slightly rewarded, but are still disappeared, invisible and inconsequential to those inside and outside the gates. Read More
The single most deadly calamity to have befallen black people throughout the globe in this 21st century can be found in the person of Barack Obama, that rhetorical and deadly fox in sheep’s clothing. Indeed, humanity as a whole is the unsuspecting prey of this current black-faced head of the bloody, avaricious, corporate U.S. Empire. Read More
In spite of the chilly typical winter afternoon on Febraury 6, 2010, citizens of Hamilton gathered for a rally entitled ‘An attack on one is an attack on all’. The rally is organized by concerned citizens to support the new refugee reception centre ‘New Dawn’, which is managed by Settlement and Integration Service Organization (SISO) - the largest settlement services provider of the city.Read More
Freedom can often be viewed in the context of captivity and liberty. When one is incapacitated, then the simple freedom to move is what freedom is. But when one moves, one can move to a good place or one can move to a bad place. In the long run, one who has the freedom to move but moves to a bad place was not free, although he had the freedom to move. His choices determined that freedom itself did not make the man free. Read More
The population of people originally hailing from African or Caribbean descent is small in city of Vancouver directly. Yet one just has to travel just east of the Vancouver Burnaby boarder and the slight increase of Black people is visibly noticeable. The National Congress of Black Women Foundation (NCBWF) is also found in Burnaby. The Congress of Black Women of Canada is the original body from which several chapters can be found all across Canada. Read More
No doubt they are Africa’s undisputed soccer kings. If any one had told me before the competition that Egypt would win again, I’d have doubted it, but I wouldn’t have bet against it as well. Read More
There are many different ways that the corporate media continues to misrepresent the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela. Many critics of this biased media coverage have directly challenged the demonization of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, but very few critics, if any, have exposed the media’s virtual erasure of the vibrant and growing participatory democracy in Venezuela. Read More
The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12 and destroyed many of its cities was devastating. The pain and sorrow it caused its children and true friends are deep: we have yet to find words and expressions to describe this unprecedented structural and psychological uprooting. Salvation can only come from rebirth and revolution. Read More
Because the country was still racially segregated, Montford Point was created as a training facility for African-American Marines. For the first time African-Americans were able to fight for their country. Although they now had the ability to fight in the war for their country, they still had to fight another battle.Read More
