December 2022 Blog Posts (25)

Nelson Mandela A Legacy In Music...

Joan Armatrading considers herself privileged to have met Nelson Mandela and to have written and performed a song for him - The Messenger. In this programme she traces Mandela's life through his all-important love of music, from his early days as a keen dancer to his maturity on the world stage as the first fully democratically elected President of South Africa - an event celebrated in music all over the world. In between,…

When we contrast the behavior of Arabs before and after Islam, we need to mention the positives as well as the negatives.

Some Arabs would resent a total focus on the negatives without mentioning the positives. One of the most positive features they were known for was their hospitality.

Some of their positives are mentioned below.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/CULTURE-MIDDLE EAST: Arab Hospitality Runs Deep

The genuine warmth…

A bronze statue of Henrietta Lacks – whose cells were taken from her body without her permission before they

Lacks’ cells were taken from her body without her permission and used for numerous medical advances

facilitated numerous medical advances – is taking the place of a monument to the Confederate general Robert E Lee that was removed from…

Black Burden

Una Marson

I AM black,

And so I must be

More clever than white folk,

More wise than white folk,

More discreet than white folk,

More courageous than white folk.

I am black,

And I have got to travel

Even farther than white folk,

For time moves on

I must not laugh too much,

They say black folk can only laugh;

I must not weep too much,

They…

Good Deeds, click link below...

Man Leaves Bags Of Food For Homeless People And Walks Away, Captures Their Reactions (sunnyskyz.com)…

 I never could have…

How Much Does Discrimination Hurt the Economy? - Freakonomics

Early life and education Miltona Mirkin Cade was born in Harlem, New York, to parents Walter and

Helen (Henderson) Cade. She grew up in Harlem, Bedford…

Dr. Claudine Gay PhD, a widely admired higher education leader and distinguished scholar of democracy and political participation, will become the 30th president of Harvard University on July 1.

Since 2018, Gay has served as the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the University’s largest and most academically diverse faculty, spanning the biological and physical sciences and engineering, the social sciences, and the…

We look at “Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power,” a remarkable new documentary that shows how a small rural

community in Alabama organized during the civil rights movement to challenge white supremacy and systematic disenfranchisement of Black residents, and would become, in some ways, the first…

Hakim Ziyech (Arabic: حكيم زياش; Berber languages: ⵃⴰⴽⵉⵎ ⵣⵉⵢⴰⵛ; born 19 March 1993) is a professional …

Myra Payne Elliott isn’t feeling well. Getting out of bed takes more energy than she has most days, and the chronic

obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) makes it hard to breathe. You wouldn’t know it to look at her, though, immaculately dressed in a beaded silver gown and matching jacket, her white hair carefully pulled into a bun and secured with a silver pin in the shape of a butterfly. There have been reporters and photographers at…

What's good, y'all? You're listening to CODE SWITCH. I'm Gene Demby, and joining us today is our play cousin, Hansi

Listen to full program:  Why some Republicans want to narrow who counts as Black : Code Switch : NPR

Lo Wang. He's NPR's resident census expert. He's a correspondent on NPR's Washington Desk. He's a South Philly native…

Moroccan supporters flocked to Qatar looking for joy. They collectively needed something to feel happy about, removed

We’re used to losing. Morocco’s team is changing that, for the country and the Global South.

Bad Mexicans, by Kelly Lytle Hernández (Norton). The nickname malos…

The strike by unions representing 48,000 academic workers at the University of California stands at a perilous crossroads

By:  Nelson…