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By Dwain Wellington Rattray & Joanne Brereton Pride Contributing Writers  Poet Maya Angelou is dead. That sentence serves not to merely inform, but to bring to bear the definitive important truth, that a colossal giant of our era is no ...

By Rupert Johnson Once again, toxins pervade the current political environment in Ontario, filling the air with noxious campaign fumes. And once again we should protect ourselves against the odours of lies, deceptions, and hypocrisy. These are the odious gases ...

By Rupert Johnson Dr. Maya Angelou was indeed an inspiration to everyone. Her embodiment of the renaissance has certainly transformed this remarkable woman into a quintessential icon. Her omni competence and amazing accomplishments can attest to this fact. She was ...

The late, great Maya Angelou once wrote, “I’m a black ocean, leaping and wild. Welling and swelling, I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear: I rise. Into a daybreak that wondrously clear: I rise. Bringing ...

When her friend Nelson Mandela passed away last year, Maya Angelou wrote that “No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again, and bring the dawn.” Today, Michelle and I join millions around the world in remembering one of the ...

A new definition is needed, he says, to respond to the threat of ‘angry white males’  ST. CATHARINES, Ontario — Masculinity as we define it in Western culture has been set up to fail, says Jonathan Allan, a lecturer in ...

By Rupert Johnson The mistreatment, harassment, and general denigration of females is not a recent phenomenon, it is as old as the inception of the human race. Although there has been concerted efforts, particularly in Western societies to curtail and ...

By Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka UN Women’s Executive Director UNITED NATIONS, New York (IPS) – Nearly 20 years ago, the world came together in Beijing for the Fourth World Conference on Women. There, 189 governments adopted a visionary roadmap for gender equality: ...

By Roberto Savio IPS Founder In this column, ROBERTO SAVIO, founder and president emeritus of Inter Press Service (IPS), writes on persistent inequality and the failure of “trickle down” economy.  ROME, Italy (IPS) — Not a day goes by without ...

By Dr. Peter Sealy Pride Guest Writer  Eating can be very comforting for African Canadians who are dealing with the issue of being overweight. Indeed we as African Canadians celebrate with food as do many other cultural groups. There is ...