Having more black lawyers may save black men from jail Blacks are being incarcerated at disturbingly high rates for seemingly minor infractions. The cost of posting bail is often relatively…
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For my people are destroyed from a lack of knowledge (Hosea 4: 6) Jewish history is world heritage. Although religion is a controversial topic today, Jewish history gave us the…
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From each according to his ability, and to each according to her need, because some folks have just way too much than necessary… Concerning those opulent hierophants that complain about…
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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write – Martin Luther Today is D-day: when I take a break from writing and going through Facebook…
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Women still have reason to be terrified in the streets… Living in America, away from my sisters and my mother, often motivates me to reflect on the special status of…
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These immortals have been men after all… I lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where number 44 once lived as a student at Harvard Law School, on the night he became the…
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In an ideal world, travelers would manifest the ideal of what it means to be colorblind. I find it quite amusing what’s considered “significant” accomplishments on a resume these days:…
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In the aftermath of the civil war, the much expanded size of the military, around 250,000 in 1977, consumed a large part of Nigeria’s resources under military rule for little…
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Because you do not have to be misrepresented by a false name. I had just finished watching another interesting episode of Third Rail on OZY with Carlos Watson, and I…
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Debunking persistent myths and showcasing that Africans had developed complex art and systems prior to slavery and colonialism. At last, quintessential Nigerian art may return home where it belongs in…
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Envy is toxic. There are things I love about the Christian Holy Bible, and that includes its poignant analysis of the folly of mankind, with its precepts on how to…
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From its inception, the United States Presidency has been considered a noble office and its occupant, has been correspondingly as noble in character. But something went wrong in 2016, and…
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If you do not tell the truth about what you know and understand about yourself, then others may tell lies based on what they neither know, nor understand about you.…
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Because tenable gun control laws, reflective of advanced civilized societies, will engender safe spaces for those uncomfortable conversations that are long overdue. I am often irritated, when one’s discourse is…
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In 1992, the world of music changed and civility in the arts became a pejorative, as the once unacceptable and inflammatory content of hardcore rap valorizing misogynistic, homophobic, gangster and…
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The American dream is real for some, but it does not have to make them hypocrites…athletes, applause. I am watching the articulate young man speaking with passion on television, and…