Relatively little has changed in United States religious race relations. As we consider the second inauguration of President Barack Obama on the Federal King Holiday, as we celebrate the Sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, I am led to wonder, why are we still so far apart?
Category Archives: Politics
Interview with an Occupier
I was lucky enough to procure a phone interview with Michael Collins, a person directly involved with the Occupy London (Ontario, Canada) movement.
The Sudden Death and Modern Myth of a Cyberculture Heroine
Neda Agha-Soltan was a young Iranian living in a country that denied its women an abundance of civil rights.
Mexico: Democracy, free trade no match for cartels
In the midst of its 94 year old political constitution, a freely elected President approved by the nation’s voters, as well as membership in the trilaterally based North American Free Trade Agreement, famously known as NAFTA, Mexico’s questionable stability emerges as a risky notion to inhabitants living north of the border.
The “Ladies in White” still walk on Sundays in Havana
Every Sunday, after attending mass at the Santa Rita Church, roughly 40 women, some dressed in pants and sneakers and others wearing skirts but always in solidarity white and carrying gladiolas, slowly walk up Havana’s Fifth Avenue amid shouts of “Libertad!” These are no ordinary women, for they are the “Damas de Blanco,” the “Ladies in White,” founded by the late Castro oppositionist, Laura Pollán (February 13, 1948 – October 14, 2011).
When Race and Sexual Harassment Intersect
When Herman Cain threw the “race card” bomb into the midst of the sexual harassment scandal story I literally felt the air leave the room…