The Hilton family could probably hire Blackwater, a.k.a. Xe, to clear the ground and run the entire country as a resort. Cuban cigar tobacco grows fine there. Before I use my full days' allotment of sarcasm, I yield the floor to the NY Times Editorial Board. Haiti’s Despair, Continued The Departme...

“The delusion of power also appears to provide an escape for middle-class Negroes from the world of reality which pierces through the world of make-believe of the black bourgeoisie. The positions of power which they occupy in the Negro world often enable them to act autocratically towards other Ne...

Despite the flicker of optimism, huge challenges remain. Somalia is a land of blown opportunities; 13 previous attempts at forming an effective transitional government have failed. Wrong. Twelve previous attempts failed. At most. One was destroyed by a U.S.ofA.-inspired and supported invasion. With ...

At First Book we imagine a world one day where programs serving children in need have everything they need to engage the children in the power of books, and can release them into the world as successful participants in our global community, flying under the success of their own power. And, to help m...

Mark Bowden writes about the chaos that is Somalia in the Washington Post today...three online pages decrying Islamicists and warlords and poverty...and I'm not posting a a word of it. Because every time someone writes about it, they disguise or simply neglect the Bush Administration's role ...

The newspaper quoted the minister as telling potential donors: "Our central hospitals are literally not functioning. Our staff is demotivated and we need your support to ensure that they start coming to work and our health system is revived." He listed urgent requirements as including medi...

This will be one of my last blog posts before Tuesday's U.S. presidential election. Borrowing from our sisters over at Document the Silence blog (on violence against women of colour), I feel the need to quote my Caribbean-American lesbian sister,......

There's a great article in the New York Times that I highly recommend this am. Folks in the U.S. didn't pay much attention with Aimé Césaire, Frence poet, politician and philosopher died a few months ago in April. But it was a big deal in France (and for those of us around the world familiar with ...

April 8-9 mark the first-ever India-Africa Forum Summit. Might the Summit include any component addressing human trafficking and undocumented (i.e., illegal) immigration coming from the Asian subcontinent into East and Southern Africa?? India and the African Union each has its......

***Queerty interviews “Botswanan trans-lesbian Prisca Mogapi” who describes coming out to his family. I never dreamed of telling anyone close to me, but the media disclosed me as they crashed the party that I threw with my partner. The article was titled, “Homosexual party in Mmopane,â...