@ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood2 days ago6 minBiden Injects Energy Into 2020 Race Biden advocates clean renewable energy (wind and solar); Trump supports dirty old sources (oil and gas) (Photo by International Renewable...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodOct 207 minLast Stand for Whales, Humans Herman Melville, who created the monomaniacal Captain Ahab, could not imagine the extinction of the sperm whale. Nineteenth-century write...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodOct 122 minWhales May Have Followed Leader to Mass Death A team of 60 used slings and other equipment to help pull the whales off the sandbanks (Photo by Brodie Weeding/AFP/Getty Images) The lon...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodOct 65 minNavajo Water Is Scarce, Not CheapEmma Robbins’ grandparents used to live in a traditional Hogan like the one above, pictured with a 275-gallon water tank outside. In 2016...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodOct 65 minNavajo Water Is Scarce, Not CheapEmma Robbins’ grandparents used to live in a traditional hogan like the one above, pictured with a 275-gallon water tank outside. In 2016...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodOct 47 minCalifornia Law Opens Door to Slave ReparationsBefore, during and after the transcontinental railroad's construction from 1863 to 1869, thousands of enslaved blacks and, then, freedmen...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodSep 306 minLove It and Leave It: Portugal and AmericaSome nations view themselves as havens; others as countries with a history of diaspora. The United States falls into the former category,...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodSep 2214 minWho Drank the Kool-Aid, President TrumpPeoples Temple literature showcases its utopia at Jonestown, Guyana “. . . Do you have any sense that that privilege has isolated and put...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodSep 193 minCynthia Adina XMy great grandfather, James Kirkwood, was a police constable in St. Ann, Jamaica. But who were his parents? The awakening of more of the ...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodSep 125 minEscaping the MatrixThe Social Dilemma, a Netflix documentary, calls for the collective will to demand regulation of social media, which is hurting humanity....
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodSep 66 minDin of Anger Shouts Down ReconciliationFesta do Avante!, the annual Portuguese Communist Party festival, was limited to 16,563 attendees because of the COVID-19 pandemic (Photo...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodAug 305 minRepublicans Incite Fear of ViolenceWhen I wrote an opinion piece for a British newspaper about the overseas image of gun-toting Americans, I wrote about the skewed view of ...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodAug 291 minWakanda Forever: Chadwick Boseman Dies at 43Chadwick Boseman, star of the blockbuster Black Panther, died of colon cancer at age 43 on August 28. He also portrayed historical figure...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodAug 224 minDemocratic Convention Embraced the InvisibleThe New York Times security guard Jacquelyn Brittany Asbie escorted Joe Biden to The Times editorial board, who did not endorse him. He s...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodAug 159 minWhat Went Wrong in LiberiaJoseph Jenkins Roberts, the first president of Liberia, was born free in Norfolk, Virginia. “Oh, would some power the gift to see us, To ...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodAug 105 minGhana Calling African Americans HomeThe flag of Ghana inverts Ethiopia’s green-yellow-red Lion of Judah flag and replaces the lion with a black star. Red symbolizes bloodshe...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodAug 34 minCamus’ Absurdist View of PlagueEnjoy the view while you are here. As a little girl, my mother taught me this prayer, which I said on my knees each night before sleeping...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodJul 272 minSteadfast Statesman John Robert Lewis(February 21, 1940 - July 17, 2020) Photo by Folhapress An American titan in the struggle for racial justice, whose path was pa...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodJul 253 minBeing White Is Not Being BlackSome of the many faces in my family's country of Belize When a college classmate said that I was in an interracial marriage, I was aghast...
@ Cynthia Adina KirkwoodJul 245 minFrom "Tricky Dick" Nixon to Flim-Flam Man Trump"Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and th...
