An ex-principal travelled to Italy and was greeted with welcoming arms after being forced to quit when her school displayed the naked David statue to children. Friday, Hope Carrasquilla and her family visited Florence‘s iconic Accademia Gallery museum after the mayor of
The black community has a lot of hindrances and challenges, ranging from racism, segregation, persecution and hate crimes, but nothing compares to the effect felt or that will be felt from cultural assimilation, and appropriation of the cultures and lifestyle of the
Black Economy. The economy by the black man, and for the black man. A black-oriented economy. Over the years, black businesses have had to fight through their ways to dominate the strategic sectors of the economy. It has been a fight that
The COVID-19 pandemic has become quite the issue of major concern. Everyone is talking about it, the global community has been thrown into disarray. With no end in sight, and with death rates and cases of infected persons continually rising up, we
Black people have a common root; a common origin, and common ancestry. Despite the fact that we have become stretched across various continents, and countries thereby forming a significant aspect of that countries history, we still remain the same. We have suffered
“Bling bling” “pills and booze” you know it. A lot of things take away the cash from the hands of a black man, and guess what? Most of these expenses are completely a waste of money too. In this post we shall
Who says there are no women who enhance the world with impactful impressions? – Brittany Packnett Cunningham is one such woman, especially to black lives! One incident that brought her to limelight in Black activism; On the 9th of August 2014, a
Over time, I have seen various black-oriented social media handles, articles on the internet, or even heard some black folks of mine speak ill about religion. Their anger always stems from the fact that religion was used to exploit and impoverish blacks.
Africa is a vast continent with thousands of ethnic groups and subgroups, cultures with varying traditions and spiritualties. Praying the African way as used in the title of this piece, is not to imply that this one way represents the totality of
I have read the Bible inside out, all the while looking for a piece of information that seems elusive to be at first glance. The church beside my house reeled about “The God of Israel” the thunderous claps as the Pastor recounted
Catholics, until this day, maintains that Mary is rather honored not worshipped. One can always, at the apparent view, see the importance of Mary in Christian mythology. Her status has gradually grown from a simple human woman who was privileged to bear
There are historical records that point out how ‘great’ the black man was once. These records trace the race back to the days of the Tower of Babel, where the ancestor of the black race, Nimrod, orchestrated and monitored the building of
I stumbled on a piece of news on Twitter of how the Chinese Government demolishes churches and Mosques. Stories of how ISIL in the Middle East blow up churches, while in Western Africa, terrorist groups like Boko haram, occasionally blow up
Sexuality is one crucial, reoccurring motif in Western and Arabic civilizations through antiquity. One could rightly point out that this is a consequence of the two primary religions that shaped the course of the history of both civilizations; Christianity and Islam. There
I still remember all too clearly sitting at the foot of Papa’s chair, other children around, a kerosene lantern flickering somewhere in the room. He would regale us with thrilling tales, colorful stories of the most bizarre plots. About Mbe nwa anuga
The applause from my tiny iPhone speaker was loud enough for anyone close to me to hear, the grin plastered on my face as I fixed my gaze on the device could spark curiosity in anyone who paid any attention to me.
Watching the video of Beyonce’s new music “Love Drought” and its obvious derivation of symbolism from the Igbo landing tragedy, I was compelled to write about the Igbo landing of 1803. One who is intimate with the culture of the Igbo people
