Time to Vote - When you reach the end of what you should know Our society has deep feelings, seemingly conflicting sometimes, about knowledge. Surely you have heard, “A little bit of knowledge is a
Editor Notes
Remember those “How I Spent My Summer” essays you had to write for your first English class of the fall term? In Guyana, where I was born, the title of the essay was “How I Spent My August Holid
I learned the following Ethiopian proverb the other day: If spiderwebs unite, they can tie up an elephant. I learned this from Thomas P. Furey, chargé d’affaires at the U.S. embassy in Nigeria. Fur
It’s the season of the sun in America and, naturally, the sun people have come out to play. Judging by the Tee Off Calendar in The African American Golfer’s Digest, one of the games we like to pla
As the editor of a magazine I often am privy to all kinds of fascinating information, some of which, for various reasons, never comes to the attention of the general public. Make no mistake, the power
Human history is full of walls. The longer they stand, the more useless they become, it seems. Eventually they crumble, toppling the people and the mind-set that erected them.
In Sunday school we sang
Some of our elected officials seem bent on smothering the American-championed ideal of open markets with the fear of terrorism as they rail against the right—as enshrined in global trade rules this
As TNJ celebrates its 2006 class of “25 Influential Black Women in Business,” I am compelled to reflect on two recent events, both having to do with Black women, that have given the African diaspo
My brother recently sent me an e-mail that contained a copy of the original flyer announcing a slave sale in Charleston, S.C., in 1833. The leaflet, which testifies to the diasporan nature of our hist
Rosa Parks took her first “stand” for civil rights just four months after the funeral of Emmett Till, the Chicago 14-year-old who was tortured then lynched by white men in Money, Miss., in the sum