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Black Community in Toronto Demanding Justice
By Yohi Mersha
Junior Alexander Manon’s mother spent Mother’s Day demanding for justice. Her 18 years old son died shortly after he was pulled by the Toronto police. Even though the reason for his death was reported as cardiac arrest, many are finding it hard to believe.Given that 18 years old Junior was a healthy teen and there were testimonies that he was assaulted by the police, it wouldn’t be easy for the police to convince Junior’s family and the community at large that Junior’s death was not caused by police brutality.Read More
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Born Black Hall of Fame: Amílcar Cabral
By Jovi Otite
Definitely, one of Africa’s greatest sons was born in Bafatá, Portuguese Guinea on the 12th of September, 1924. Amílcar was born to a Guinean mother and Cape Verdean father. Amílcar had his early education at a licéu in Cape Verde. He was later sent to Lisbon, Portugal to study Agronomy at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia. Read More
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Racism well and alive in Ontario Universities and Colleges
Kelly Green
One could say, colleges and universities are one of the many places that showcase Canada’s multiculturalism and diversity. If you think our colleges and universities are the last place where we should worry about racism, you might be wrong. The Canadian Federation Task force report on Campus Racism released a report this March, compiling cases of racism in different Ontario Colleges and Universities.Read More
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Book Review:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Dr. Lenore Daniels
On August 3, 1980 in Philadelphia, Mississippi, the U.S. government officially declared war against Black people residing in its borders. Long live the southern strategy! Sniper shots and dynamite blasts had efficiently terrorized these people into abject numbness. A pogrom could do the trick! Troops, weaponry, ammunition! Call it the War on Drugs. And the beauty of the pogrom—the American public wouldn’t notice the war underway right on its homeland!. Read More
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Decrying Racism While Reinforcing It
By Larry Pinkney
Racism is terribly debilitating in numerous ways and on so many levels. It is also an integral part of an unequal social, political, and economic system that perpetuates it. That system is commonly referred to as capitalism. Read More
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Nigeria's Day of Reckoning
By Gaga Ekeh
I rise today, like a prophet of old, to warn my country Nigeria. I do so, not because I have had a dream in which I saw rivers of blood flow. I do so, not because an old woman with a walking stick whispered to me the secrets of the future. I do so, not because I have engaged the services of a marabout or fortune teller who indicates that trouble lurks. I do so because I have finally made the transition--from Nigerian child to Nigerian adult. Read More
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Organic foods: Face to Face with Reality
By Jovi Otite
The usage of mass methods of food production to meet up with Africa’s massive population growth over the last 100yrs has met with stiff opposition amongst the African populace. Perhaps partly due to lack of information from agricultural agents, Africans still find themselves geared towards the preference of organic foods over inorganic foods, a trend supported by their ill-informed counterparts in Europe and North America. Read More
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10 tips on Propping up Your Rep
By Lee Roy
2010 is almost half way and majority of us have done all we can in a bid to upgrade our rep so as to acquire the desired attention from the so called “hip”. Here are a few tips for those who want to be considered classy like Halle Berry, influential like Desmond Tutu and responsible like Robert (Kennedy, not Mugabe lest I lose my credibility).Read More
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