By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist COVID-19, Coronavirus, “Cora” or “Rona”, as some of you are calling it, is a killer, and it will kill you. Straight up, the virus is no respecter of age, stage, city or ethnicity. I am ...
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Feed SubscriptionCOVID-19 In Africa: Fewer Cases So Far, And More Preparation Needed
Akebe Luther King Abia Guest Contributor The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, recently declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, has taken the world by surprise. The good news is that tremendous scientific and technological advances have permitted scientists ...
Read More »Pandemic And Paranoia Versus Fearing, Caring And Sharing: Amidst the panic what message are we sending to our children
By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist The news has been received: yes, the coronavirus is here. Fear not. But mass panic is also here — fear. As a health-care professional for more than four decades, there is very little to which ...
Read More »CARICOM Ballot-Counting Initiative In Guyana: Sinister President David Granger Plot? Has Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo Been Hoodwinked?
By Dr. Kumar Mahabir Guest Writer Following the walk-out by all the international observers from a reportedly rigged vote-counting process in Guyana, incumbent President, David Granger, was making plans to swear himself in, as an illegal President. Then boom! The ...
Read More »Women’s Rights: Progress, But Still A Long Way To Go
By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist Globally, March 8 was celebrated as International Women’s Day, and I proudly salute women, around the globe, as we all join in solidarity, to acknowledge the sacrifices and leadership that women, on a daily basis, ...
Read More »Arab Involvement In The African Slave Trade — Another Under-addressed Facet Of Black History
By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist That Arab slavers were the first, and last, in modern times, to ship millions of Africans out of the continent as slaves? Most people still have the so-called Transatlantic [slave] trade by Europeans in mind; ...
Read More »‘It Don’t Be Like That Now’ — The English History Of African American English
By Shana Poplack Guest Contributor After students at a California high school were recently told to “translate” Black English phrases into standard English, a community member at a school board hearing said: “The last thing they need — our children — ...
Read More »Quebec’s Bill 40: Educational Conflagration?
By Yvonne Sam Pride Contributing Columnist On October 1, 2018, a general election was held in Quebec, to elect members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It was the first election in 40 years, wherein the issue of sovereignty was ...
Read More »Are We Living In The Era Of Post-Modern Slavery?
By Yvonne Sam Pride Contributing Columnist Sadly, there is no candy–coated way to say this, hence, I am left with no alternative but to say it, boldly: in this bleak, broken, post-modern world, in which we live, we are all ...
Read More »Blacks Redefining Themselves: A Spin That’s Guaranteed To Win
By Yvonne Sam Pride Contributing Columnist Black History begins, continues and will live on, with us redefining ourselves. Instead of discussing the great achievements/inventions by Black men or Black women, I would instead, like to discuss the great achievements that ...
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