The picture cannot be grimmer. May the Lord help those of us who continue to do business as usual in America at a time when Black people are on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder and are steadily
Final Word
There have been many times in my life when circumstances for my success weren’t exactly ideal. I suppose I could have let that determine where I ended up, but something kept pushing me to challenge
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In October 2003 I set off on a yearlong adventure, trading an autumnal London for, first, Australia via Singapore. You know you’re a foreigner when you’re walking down a street behind an old woman
Within days of the tsunami of December 2004, I started getting e-mails and phone calls from people I did not know. They were very similar in both content and form. The writer or caller would be a bit
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Two chants resounded during the recent presidential campaign: “Four more years!” and “No more years!” There is no need to tell which belonged to whom and who the eventual winner was. What rema
Universal respect for human rights undoubtedly creates social peace in nations and peaceful relations between countries because, very often, conflicts arise from the lack of respect for human rights a
The key point I wanted to start off with is I think it’s time for everybody in this room who’s running a company to think of technology a bit differently. There are changes that we see happening i