BROOKLYN, New York City January 24, 2018 — Hard work, the will to succeed and not being afraid of taking chances is helping Brooklyn-based rapper, Safaree, succeed in the entertainment business. Next month, on Sunday, February 18, Safaree — born ...
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Is Sex Addiction The New Male Predilection? The Label Is Outdated And Should Be Relegated
By Yvonne Sam Social Columnist Many still hold the genuine belief that traditional manhood is lethal, but is masculinity the true problem? Or is the label “sex addiction” a social construct that will eventually destruct? The recent tsunami of sex ...
Read More »Active Guyanese-Canadian Community Member, Linda Abrahams, Passes On
PICKERING, Ontario January 24, 2017 — Linda Berle Abrahams (nee Cumberbatch), 74, passed away, in the comfort of her home. Following a period of illness, during which, for a while, she was cared for at home by husband of 48 ...
Read More »Trinidadian-led Band, Kobo Town, Takes On Huge Task Of Accompanying Calypso’s Legendary Queen, Calypso Rose
By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario January 23, 2017 — When the iconic, legendary, ageless calypso royalty, Calypso Rose, debuts on the Koerner Hall stage in Toronto, on Friday evening, the band that has the gargantuan — and ...
Read More »Raising Hope: Parenting In An Anti-Black Environment
By Roberta K. Timothy Guest Writer The world my children live in is divided in two, as Frantz Fanon wrote in 1952 in The Wretched of the Earth. It is a world divided in endless opposites, a world still pained by ...
Read More »Can Uganda Reduce Financial Exclusion To 5 Percent In 5 Years?
By Nathan Were IPS Guest Writer WASHINGTON DC, January 17, 2018 (IPS) — In October 2017, Uganda launched a new five-year National Financial Inclusion Strategy. The strategy seeks to reduce financial exclusion from 15 to 5 percent by 2022 by ensuring ...
Read More »Chance For Kenya To Make Amends For Post-Election Sexual Violence
By Agnes Odhiambo IPS Guest Writer NAIROBI, Kenya January 17, 2018 (IPS) — I had already heard many disturbing stories of violence by the time I interviewed Mercy Maina, whose name I have changed to protect her privacy. Even so, ...
Read More »Ethiopia’s New Addiction, And What It Says About Media Freedom
By James Jeffrey IPS Contributing Writer ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia January 17, 2018 (IPS) — On a Saturday afternoon in one of Addis Ababa’s khat houses, a group of men and women chew the mildly narcotic plant while gazing, mesmerized, toward ...
Read More »Calypso Rose To Perform Winter-warming Live Concert In Toronto
By Michael Van Cooten PRIDE Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario January 16, 2018 — On the much-anticipated night of Friday, January 26, Koerner Hall in Toronto, “one of North America’s most beautiful and acoustically-superb concert halls”, will bear witness to the mesmerising, ...
Read More »Haitian Protesters Voice Outrage Over Trump’s Reported Racist Remarks
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida January 16, 2018 (CMC) – Hundreds of Haitians lined the West Palm Beach approach to United States President Donald Trump’s so-called Winter White House, yesterday, where they demanded an apology from the president for his alleged ...
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