Okeeba Jubalo: The Serengeti Lion
Okeeba Jubalo is a black entrepreneur, poet, publisher, creative director and artist whose art strives to make an undeniable statement....
A Few Words In Selma w/Congressman Keith Ellison
Rep. Keith Ellison, the progressive Minnesota Democrat who just won his sixth term, was recently elected the Deputy Chairman of the...
From Fela to Beyoncé Artists Assert Identity and Resistance through Yoruba Influence in Pop Culture
Black Americans have lost their identity over the last three hundred years, or so it seems. Ask Beyoncé, whose 2017 Grammy performance...
Atlanta mayor’s race begins with talk of ethics, murder, the Streetcar – and Kasim Reed
Eight candidates for mayor of Atlanta gathered for lunch recently to give the Buckhead Coalition a taste of what’s to come. It appears...
COME AND GET THESE MEMORIES!
Here is a throwback column I penned back in 2002 for a magazine I was helping to produce, along with the late Delores Bundy, for Atlanta...
From Maroons to Mardi Gras: The Black Indians of New Orleans ‘Won’t Bow Down’
On the cusp of its Tri-Centennial Celebration, New Orleans, established as one of the largest ports of entry for African slaves into the...
Why South Africa Loves Cuba
Piero Gleijeses is a professor of American foreign policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. All quotes from...
Honoring Fidel Castro and the Cubans in African Liberation
Note: With the sad news of the passing of Fidel Castro I can't help but be reminded of seeing him on the stage in Pretoria, South Africa...
Baseball, Dad, Son and the 2016 World Series
The 2016 World Series is now in the books, both the box score archives of Major League Baseball and the historical record books. As a dad...
