The convention season is over and, with it, the highlights and lowlights of both parties, of both candidates and of humanity. Let’s take a quick peek at 3 of the best and worst moments from both the Republican and Democratic Convention.
If we understood racial privilege and prejudice, we would understand that not all cops could be fair-minded, even-handed men and women, unaffected by the culture, and that the black suspect is the one at fault, the catalyst for the deadly altercation. In a 2-part series, V. Knowles offers us anecdotal evidence about how racial privilege works.
He is, at his core, a black beast, whose sole aim in life is to rape white women or shame them. Ask any southern gentleman in the Jim Crow South. Americans still have a problem with Black skin. Look no further than Louisiana and Minnesota.
To the delight of 25 states, the Supreme Court has ruled that President Obama’s executive action relative to undocumented aliens is illegal. We highlight the hole in the wall, so to speak, in the book HOLA AMERICA.
There is something reprehensible about using the death of a human being to endorse a philosophical point of view or score brownie points on a particular political platform. A last name or a country of origin does not make Omar Mateen a killer.
Fear may be secretly destroying your life and relationships. Here are 3 ways that fear can suspend your success, but caution can guide you to it.
Since the tragic massacre that took place in Orlando, Donald Trump is tapping into and exploiting the fear and basest instinct of the American. “Can you imagine what they’ll do in large groups, which we’re allowing now to come here?” he said of Muslims in America. Columnist V. Knowles speaks of freedom as choice.
While Donald Trump insults everyone in his path, Carlos Beruff, son of Cuban refugees seeking the senatorial seat in multicultural Florida, has gone on record calling President Barack Obama an animal.
As a kick off to Caribbean Heritage Month in the U.S., arts and museum educator Stephanie Cunningham is hosting a panel discussion called “Caribbeanness Expressed Through the Lens of Arts and Culture” at the Bronx Arts Space, 305 East 140th Street #1A in Bronx, New York on June 5 from 1-4 p.m.
George Zimmerman, the man who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on Feb. 26, 2012, put his controversial firearm up for auction block on Monday, May 16 after attempts to sell the 9mm weapon failed — twice.