Nobel Peace Prize: Obama’s No King?

Though no one in the media punditocracy found fault in President Obama’s acceptance speech in receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, author and pastor Byron Williams, writing in The Huffington Post, makes clear that President Obama shares little with the two African Americans receiving the prize before him, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and [...]

Racism: Cuban Style

It is amazing how many African American leaders, celebrities, and the like are STILL in awe of Fidel “presidente por vida” Castro.  The same goes for Hugo Chavez.  It’s borne out of a false and nostalgic sense of solidarity for the people’s poor in those countries and solidarity against the United States government.  To be [...]

Etiquette Expert: Obamas bow to Japan’s emperor shows breach in protocol

The Etiquette Expert debuted her new updated blog.  A great read for those of us looking for etiquette tips in business, technology, and general manners.  Check out her recent blog on the much-hyped bow of President Obama’s bow to the Japanese emperor. President Obama’s bow to Japan’s emperor shows breach in protocol. Let’s set the [...]

Since Apologizing for Slavery is All the Rage

We’ve touched on the recent spate of slavery apologies from the U.S. Congress, to Bill Clinton, to states and cities, and even corporations.  All of these public penances are by predominantly white institutions  apologizing for the slave trade and and benefits from free slave labor. The Black Informant has written extensively on the subject and recently [...]

Civil Rights Movement Marches on in Mexico

Time Magazine posted an article outlining the plight of Afro-Mexicans. Time writes: Mirroring Mexico’s history itself, most of Yanga’s Afro-Mexican population has been pushed to neighboring rural villages that are notable primarily for their deep poverty and the strikingly dark skin of their inhabitants. Mexico’s independence from Spain and new focus on building a national [...]

(Afro) Hispanic Heritage Month

No, Black History Month has not been moved.  It’s still in February. September 15th – October 15th celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month. Why should this be of interest to African Americans?  Because the African diaspora spreads throughout the Western Hemisphere from the Canada to Chile. We just got dropped off at different slave ports throughout the [...]

Culture Club – April

Culture Club is a periodic posting of cultural events which may be of interest to readers. Events are limited to the Washington, DC area.

Zimbabwe cholera cases pass 60,000

CNN.com reports: More than 60,000 people have now been infected with cholera in Zimbabwe, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Latest figures released Friday from the organization also show that 3,161 people have died from the disease since August 2008. In December, WHO spokesman Paul Garwood told CNN the organization an estimated 60,000 people would be infected with cholera in the “worst case scenario.”

Civil Rights Fought For Should Not Be In Vein

Reading the following article in the New York Times about young Afghan women and girls being sprayed with acid in order to prevent them from getting a basic education made me reflect on education here in the United States.  Yes, we know “a mind is a terrible thing to waste” and that “education is the [...]

Zimbabwe Needs a Port in Its Storm of Afflictions

David Coltart, a senator and member of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change, writes in The Washington Post: There is a perfect humanitarian storm in my country. The threats of AIDS, poverty, hyperinflation and malnutrition, and now cholera, combined with a regime that has given up on its people, add up to an all-but-untenable state of [...]

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