(Orlando Sentinel) Soon, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, former South African president and bulwark freedom fighter, will leave us for more transcendent horizons. Madiba, the Xhosa clan after which he is affectionately named, is more than a human rights icon and leader; he...
(Editor’s note: This guest column is based on an open letter sent to President Barack Obama by six African-American male professors last week.) (Orlando Sentinel) President Obama’s recent commencement speech at Morehouse College inspired this column. As...
(Orlando Sentinel) Do Orlandoans embrace Black History Month? I could not help but think how ironic it was that Super Bowl XLIII, America’s most-watched and celebrated athletic event took place on Feb. 1, the first day of this special month. In the wake of...
(Orlando Sentinel) WASHINGTON — I begin writing this column early Monday morning, on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and one day before the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States and the country’s first...
(Chicago Sun-Times) How do we as African Americans define selling out? Is it dating outside of our race? Is it the shuck- and-jive entertainers? Is it the black Republican? Is it the overly ambitious, material-driven civil rights activist? Or, is it the well-spoken...
Guest Commentator: J. Peter Pham (Baltimore Sun) Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, chosen president of Liberia last month in the country’s first free polling in its 183-year history, is the first woman elected to a presidency in Africa. The choice of Ms. Johnson-Sirleaf is...
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