“Finance is the gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.” – Don Lucchesi, The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Don Corleone Since the start of the new presidential […]
Have you seen the slogan This Ain’t Yo Mama’s Civil Rights Movement? It is decidedly not one of my favorites, as it suggests the movement for nonviolent resistance of the […]
Armored up. That’s how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson arrived at the second Trump inauguration. In the place of her jabot was a necklace of cascading white cowrie […]
This year’s annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Commemoration on Sunday, January 19, presented by New York Public Radio and the world-famous Apollo Theater, in collaboration with March On!, has […]
The Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Marches, sit-ins and era-defining court decisions. Afros and dashikis, raised fists in black gloves. In movies and music, magazines and newspapers, the mid-1950s […]
What would you say is the most courageous part of the body? I say it’s the feet. Everywhere we go, our feet go first. As a child of Guyanese immigrants, […]
Dear Friends, Among the things that are essential to living, the writing and reading of words stem from the mists of the past and reach into the equally nebulous future. […]
Dear Friends, A pen-as-sword-smith whose work I had the privilege of seeing recently is Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. His powerful drama, Appropriate, has quietly detonated the Broadway season. I’d gone to catch […]
Dear Friends, Imagine having a collection of fine art so vast, you’ve never seen all of it, or even most of it, in one place. So when Swizz Beatz and […]
Dear Friends, This winter featured the works of African American artists interwoven with European classics. Here are a few of the daring pairings. She wore Bantu knots; a white ruff […]
