On this day in 1967, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr made a transformative speech at the iconic Riverside Baptist Church, in New York City — the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in the United ...
On March 2, 1955 — 65 years ago to the day — 15 year-old Claudette Colvin, an honour student at Booker T Washington High School in Montgomery, Alabama was travelling on a bus when she and group of oth...
February 21 was the anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X or El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.
Two days before his death, in 1965, the photographer Gordon Parks interviewed him. Malcolm’s words follo...
The Reverend Martin Luther King’s 91st birthday today offers an opportunity to reflect on his intrinsic qualities. Dr King asked us to ignore surface matters but instead to consider the content of one...
I first met Clinton Smith in the early 1960s as a fellow student at Berkeley Institute, where his mother, Hyacinth Smith, served as school secretary.
His team-mates from that 1966 championship PHC Ju...
The festive season —Christmas through new year’s — includes a mix of traditions, dating back two millennia.
That birth in a stable, speaks to the power of humility; a challenge to the current cultur...
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.
This quote from Albert Einstein speaks to the matter of how most countries have spent many decades attempting to a...
The Reverend T. Wendell Foster passed peacefully at his home in New York last week after decades of service in the United States and Bermuda. It happens that I had the fortune of catching up with this...
On Labour Day 2018, while pushing a friend, Alvin Williams, in a wheelchair into a KEMH elevator, an acquaintance called out to me, that he thought that I would be at Union Square, at that time. His c...
“Emancipate your mind from mental slavery, none but ourselves, can free our own minds”
Enjoying a swim at Police Beach at about 7am on August 1, Emancipation Day, I reflected on Bob Marley’s words qu...
