I was browsing some AIDS-related news stories today and it struck me how one of the most often-quoted bits of wisdom about stopping AIDS in the developing world is that we need to spread awareness and ...
Weird." I was reading a Daily Pennsylvanian column about young black men who believe they can become professional athletes. There are too many, and most of their dreams will be crushed, wrote the ...
I don’t remember much about my early years in Uganda, where I was born, except fear. I grew up under one of the most brutal dictatorships in recent African and world history - Idi Amin’s. At age 12, ...
This article is personal for me. I received a call from my daughter informing me that my 27-year-old niece died in the Dominican Republic having surgery to change her physical appearance. She lost her ...
The Director-General, Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) Hon Olubunmi Amao has stated that cultural imperialism is key in explaining the high societal vulnerability of African ...
This Day of the Dead season in Santa Monica brings some usual challenges. The recent deaths of two Santa Monica homeboys clouds the celebratory day in tragedy and loss. A procession called by the Pico ...
Fiducia Supplicans, the declaration by the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of Faith (DDF) permitting the blessing of same-sex couples and couples in other “irregular situations,” was perceived as ...
The discursive positioning of Muslims as a 'security threat' or 'enemy within', in government policies and the media, has cast young Muslim men in particular as criminalized anti-citizens. Meanwhile, ...
Sen. J.D. Vance said the U.S. pushing gay and trans rights in African nations is counterproductive during an interview Wednesday evening on FOX News. "They see this as cultural imperialism. The ...
A look at the colonial strategies used by the British on Irish soil. Over the centuries, Ireland was a country structured on rebellions and conflicts between the Irishmen who sought to liberate their ...