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EAST BANK DEMERARA, Guyana (Sunday, March 7, 2021) — Thirty-five-year-old Germaine Othello Lupe, also popularly known as Bruno, died — suddenly and unexpectedly — in his sleep, of “heart failure”, on Monday, February 22, at his home in New Hope, ...

ITHACA, New York (Thursday, March 4, 2021) — Having college-bound friends increases the likelihood that a student will enroll in college, but that effect is diminished for Black and Latino students, compared with White and Asian students, according to new ...

By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist I have often wondered, long and hard, what the argument would sound like, if America was as sensitive to racism, as it was to the country’s collective clutching of pearls about the horrendous acts of ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist Over the last year and a few months, we have all been inundated with information about the coronavirus. We have read about it, discussed it repeatedly, and for some, it has been overwhelming, because of ...

By Michael Van Cooten Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario (Thursday, March 4, 2021) — “2020” — a short film, starring Sharma MacDonald, an award-winning Canadian actor and filmmaker, of Jamaican parentage — is quietly making a difference in how to cope with ...

By Michael Van Cooten Publisher/Editor TORONTO, Ontario (Thursday, March 4, 2021) — Building Black Businesses in Canada, a new study — conducted by the Canadian Black Chamber of Commerce (CBCC), a national, non-profit, bilingual organization — that examines the needs ...

By Dorothy M. Davis Guest Contributor TAMPA, Florida, February 21, 2021 (IPS) — My dad, Griff Davis, was a boyhood friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They ran in the same crowd and, after graduating from Morehouse College, stayed ...

By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist Although there has been the annual celebration of Black History, since 1995, when former federal Minister and MP, Dr. Jean Augustine, introduced the motion for the Canadian Parliament to recognize February as the designated month, ...

By Julie Carrington Guest Writer Janeil Odle is no stranger to achieving firsts in her life. In 2007, she was the first blind student to write the Barbados Secondary School Entrance Examination (BSSEE), commonly known as the Common Entrance Exam, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Thursday, February 25, 2021) — The Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) says that youth inclusion is critical to the growth and expansion of the Agriculture and Fisheries sector. Speaking at a Jamaica Information Service (JIS) ‘Think Tank’, on ...