While many people in the United States, across the African Diaspora and around the world celebrated the November 4, 2008 election of Barack Obama as our president, there were elements of my country...
Labour Day is the last long weekend of the summer and the time in which many reflect upon the barbecues and fun times that they had with friends and family. For Canadian parents, it is often...
For a country that relies on the bootstrap myth, the U.S.A. certainly has a health care system that punishes people who attempt to live that way. The self-employed, the small business owner, and most...
Four years. It's a presidential term; it's the length of a high school or college education. It's also the amount of time that has passed now since Hurricane Katrina swept across the Gulf Coast and...
August 28th connects three major figures and moments in the U.S. history of civil rights actions: Emmett Till’s murder, Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and Barack Obama's...
To achieve equality we must first accept the undeniable existence of inequality. In a class-free liberal analysis, where individual responsibility for success or failure in life reigns supreme,...
Ted Kennedy was my senator from the time I knew what a senator was. He loomed over Massachusetts politics like no one else ever has or ever will—forty-seven years in the Senate, and fighting until...
Torture is not my beat. That's partly because I am unable to be stoic when reading documents like the just-released CIA Inspector General's report on “Enhanced interrogation techniques”--new ones...
Black femininity falls squarely into three social constructions: jezebel, mammy and sapphire. Each construction is meant to discipline Black women into subservience and marginalization. Socially,...
By all accounts, the new American administration is moving at a frenetic pace in trying to break the seemingly interminable deadlock between Israel and the Arab world. Recent press reports suggest...
