Starting Points for a Paradigm Shift from Foreign Policy to Global Policy*
By William Minter and Imani Countess
By Aaron Jamal and Sian OFaolain
By Aaron Jamal and Sian OFaolain
James Baldwin aptly noted that “To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.” That proclamation is universal and time-tested, reflecting the protracted nature of antiblack racism in America, and a failure of this country to confront one of i
Starting Points for a Paradigm Shift from Foreign Policy to Global Policy*
By William Minter and Imani Countess
A Necessary, Timely Reckoning
By Raquel McGee
By Deborah Morris-Harris, M.D
In 1981, there were several cases of atypical pneumonia and diarrhea in Boston area hospitals that caused severe wasting and resulted in death. The cases clustered demographically in young Haitian immigrants. At the same time, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported cases of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Pneumocystis Pneumonia in Caucasian homosexual men, mean age of 39, in New York City and San Francisco.
A Poems by Nnimmo Bassey
How can this remain the lot of our peoples?
From the south and from the north
From the east and from the west
When our stomachs rumble
We sing the same song
And dance to the same beat
Mountains of food
Oceans of hunger
Proud people from fertile soils
We stamped the earth with bouncing steps
Once the rulers of the world
By Percy Hintzen
By Aaron Jamal and Nnennaya Amuchie
By Layla D. Brown-Vincent, Ph.D.
By Charisse Burden-Stelly
In 1950 at the age of 82, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois accepted the American Labor Party’s nomination to run for the New York seat of the U.S. Senate. Regarding this decision, his second wife, Shirley Graham, wrote: “The fact that you have done this now is conclusive proof of your own in[n]ate greatness. You accept the historic role in which events have cast you!” (Du Bois Papers, Shirley Graham Du Bois to W.E.B. Du Bois, Sept. 1, 1950).
By Nnimmo Bassey
The year 2019 was a year of extreme weather events spread across the world. Sweltering heat hit much of the globe. Raging wildfires were recorded in Brazil, Bolivia, Australia and the United States. Massive floods ravaged even cities like Venice, famed to be able to handle floods.
Pro-Black, Feminist and Anti-Imperialist: Women Writing and Acting in the Hispanophone Caribbean[1]
By Dr. Sandy Plácido