By Dr. Patrick Graham, PHD Guest Contributor There was a distant emptiness in the Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin’s, eyes, as he looked away, while rocking his knee, deeper into the neck and vertebrae of George Floyd. The look of ...
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By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist As the trial of former Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, in the slaying of George Floyd, got underway, deeply troubling issues came into play. The first came on March 20, when Matt Mohn, a Black ...
Read More »Was COVID-19 An Unwitting Ally In The US Strategy Of Depopulation Of Nations? Has The Pandemic Altered The World Order?
By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist The Coronavirus brought, in its wake, a sense of inchoate danger, not aimed at any one race or country specifically, but, nevertheless, striking with unprecedented scale and ferocity, leaving a surreal atmosphere. Its spread was ...
Read More »Robert Long’s Killing Spree: A Revelation Of Violence, Support And Ethnicity
By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist I have unceasingly affirmed that the truth would always underpin all my writings, regardless of whose ox it gores — the truth will always set you free. Go ahead and count me in, whatever number ...
Read More »Don’t Be Complacent, Help Eradicate Racial Discrimination
By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist On March 21, 1960, the world was shocked by the news of the Sharpeville Massacre in South Africa, where scores of peaceful demonstrators against apartheid were wounded and killed. In commemoration of this horrible, tragic ...
Read More »Biden-Harris Administration Committed To Building Resilient Agricultural Supply Chains
By Dr. Esther Ngumbi Guest Contributor URBANA, Illinois (Thursday, March 18, 2021) (IPS) — The White House, under the Presidency of Joe Biden, recently released an Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains, stating that the country needs to have resilient, ...
Read More »As Vaccines Cure COVID-19, What Will Cure Quebec’s Racism?
By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Dear Quebec, what has happened to you? What is happening to you? What will become of you? You cannot continue to be the combatant in the destruction of minority groups. The increasing access of vaccines ...
Read More »Meghan Markle, The UK Press And The Problem Of Diversity
By Nina Robinson Guest Contributor The resignation of the executive director of the Society of Editors, Ian Murray, represents a welcome step in the long battle to tackle structural racism in the UK media. Murray stepped down after his assertion that ...
Read More »International Women’s Day Should Be Everyday
By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist Yesterday, my organisation, “Women Are Worthy”, saluted women, across the globe, on this year’s annual celebration of International Women’s Day. When Canada joined the American suffragettes — who had fought for women to be allowed ...
Read More »What If America Treated Racism The Way It Treats Terrorism? The Stories Would Be Told A Whole Lot Differently
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 ...
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