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Since his accession to the French presidency, I seem to have lost track of the times when to hear Nicolas Sarkozy speak is to re-affirm that truth indeed is stranger than fiction. It's likely that for most of his listeners...

Why does that streak of blood rip the petal of your cheek? Correction: Nine years have passed since I worked in eastern Bosnia in 1997. In July 1995 the mass killings took place there, in the town of Srebrenica. I...

None of us knows exactly how today's Italy-Germany match will go. Some folks are pulling even harder for Italia ever since Achim Achilles' why bother comments were published in his infamous (and now removed) column on Der Spiegel Online (DSO)....

Props to our Caribbean cousins/sisters/brothers for Caribbean American Heritage Month 2006. Jasmyn Cannick has a good link on her site where she writes about Oakland, California Congresswoman Barbara Lee's 2005 proclamation, with a list of a few US folks of...

We're off to an outdoor concert of jazz - Black classical music (my term since my 1975 Penn State radio show). In the midst of what I witness and write about in this blog, each day I'm on my own...

Some say certain people's claims to being African are not taken seriously. And I might ask, not taken seriously by whom? Perhaps not wholly by themselves? Then there's the strange Kenya case of Thomas Tom Cholmondeley (possibly pronounced chum-lee?), accused...

Some say certain people's claims to being African are not taken seriously. And I might ask, not taken seriously by whom? Perhaps not wholly by themselves? Then there's the strange Kenya case of Thomas Tom Cholmondeley (possibly pronounced chum-lee?), accused...

I'm re-ordering and slightly re-wording my previous post with emphasis here on New Orleans' 2006 mayoral election which has made no provision for the tens of thousands of displaced New Orleans voters who do not physically travel back to New...

My brother just shared with me that the annual, public, free SOBU conference - the State of the Black Union - sponsored by broadcaster Tavis Smiley, is now being televised on CSPAN. Tavis says there are 5,000 persons attending the...

Two years ago, in November 2003, with the Alliance of People of African Descent in Europe, I participated in the European Social Forum held in France - in Saint Denis and next-door Paris. We had a lot of discussion of...