Perspectives
Saviours’ Day: A Sign of a New Day for Black People
We have suffered in this country for over 400 years. We have endured murder and oppression, exploitation and genocide at the hands of our open enemy. After such degradation and misery, it would be natural to ask why, when, or even can the suffering stop? If God has sent sages, prophets and saviours for those who endured harsh taskmasters in...
Confusion reigns as a great nation unravels
“Confusion among the heads of the government of the wicked is destroying the foundation of their world. ‘AS THOU HAST DONE SO SHALL IT BE DONE UNTO THEE.’ This World of the wicked has confused the Black Man’s world for six thousand (6,000) years. Now, their world must be removed to make way for a better world and...
Black History 101: The persecution, destruction of a Panther
While I don’t have many childhood memories of growing up in Baltimore, one experience had a major impact on my life and thinking. As a youngster, I visited the Black Panther Party headquarters in the city, probably with my aunts or mother, where I learned about Black history through Golden Legacy comic books, and saw Angela Davis, on a...
New year, old bad policy: Unapologetic U.S. support for Israel’s genocide
“Every human being has value. And the value of every human being is what God has put within them when He made them after His own image and likeness. So, as they were minimizing Palestinian life, in the night He was showing me: ‘With every life that they take, that they have diminished, they have diminished the value of...
Zionists attack free speech, defend Gaza genocide and ignore a ‘Nazi’ salute?
Far away from Tel Aviv, politicians in Chicago went to bat to defend Israel from a threat. What threat? A sculpture on display downtown at the Chicago Cultural Center that a Jewish member of the city council wanted removed. She swayed a majority of the city council to co-sign a call for Mayor Brandon Johnson to remove the artwork. Did...
‘Watch the Weather’: God’s Chastisement strikes America
When you see Mardis Gras snowmen in New Orleans and hockey playing in southern streets amid mounds of snow, know that something of major consequence is happening. God Himself is trying to tell America and Black people something: The United States is in the grips of costly and deadly weather events because she is under divine judgment. “The four great judgments...
Can Gaza ‘ceasefire’ bring peace?
“Every human being has value. And the value of every human being is what God has put within them when He made them after His own image and likeness. So, as they were minimizing Palestinian life, in the night He was showing me: ‘With every life that they take, that they have diminished, they have diminished the value of...
Making Snow Angels While Black: Cops traumatize an 11-year-old girl
What started as a walk home from school ended with an 11-year-old Black girl in handcuffs, crying, shaken and traumatized after a dangerous encounter with White Onondaga County deputies in Syracuse, New York. Stopping to make snow angels, the young child, who was with her cousin and other girls, was grabbed, cuffed and told she was a car thief. The deputies...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: More than a dreamer
by Dr. Khalilah T. Muhammad —Guest Columnist— Shortly after the celebrations of a new year, everywhere around the world, people unify, collaborate and commemorate the birth anniversary and the legacy of America’s Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His legacy includes keywords, phrases and titles like, “Give Us the Ballot” (May 17, 1957); “Letter from Birmingham Jail” (April...
A special prosecutor, body cams and questions about justice for Robert Brooks
Letitia James, the Black woman who is New York state attorney general, was applauded after releasing horrific video capturing the merciless beating of a 43-year-old handcuffed Black man by White corrections officers at Marcy Correctional Facility in New York. She also vowed a vigorous investigation into the death of Robert Brooks, after the unwarranted beatdown inside a facility with a...