CYNTHIA ADINA KIRKWOOD

Emma Robbins’ grandparents used to live in a traditional hogan like the one above, pictured with a 275-gallon water tank outside. In...

Before, during and after the transcontinental railroad's construction from 1863 to 1869, thousands of enslaved blacks and, then,...

Some nations view themselves as havens; others as countries with a history of diaspora. The United States falls into the former...

Peoples Temple literature showcases its utopia at Jonestown, Guyana. “. . . Do you have any sense that that privilege has isolated and...

My great grandfather, James Kirkwood, was a police constable in St. Ann, Jamaica. But who were his parents? The awakening of more of the...

The Social Dilemma , a Netflix documentary, calls for the collective will to demand regulation of social media, which is hurting...

Festa do Avante!, the annual Portuguese Communist Party festival, was limited to 16,563 attendees because of the COVID-19 pandemic (Photo...

When I wrote an opinion piece for a British newspaper about the overseas image of gun-toting Americans, I wrote about the skewed view of...

Chadwick Boseman, star of the blockbuster Black Panther, died of colon cancer at age 43 on August 28. He also portrayed historical...

The New York Times security guard Jacquelyn Brittany Asbie escorted Joe Biden to The Times editorial board, who did not endorse him. He...

Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first president of Liberia, was born free in Norfolk, Virginia. “Oh, would some power the gift to see us,...

The flag of Ghana inverts Ethiopia’s green-yellow-red Lion of Judah flag and replaces the lion with a black star. Red symbolizes...

Enjoy 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...

(February 21, 1940 - July 17, 2020) Photo by Folhapress An American titan in the struggle for racial justice, whose path was...

Some 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...

"Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and...

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wears masks with panache. Most of her face coverings are from Donna Lewis (Photo by Elle) Sell change of...

Albufeira's mayor said that the municipality will raise awareness among establishment owners about COVID-19 laws. (Photo by SIC Noticias)...

Ron Settles, a star football player at California State University in Long Beach (By Joseph Holliday) I feel crowded out by the dead. In...

Beachgoers in Britain defied social distancing on hottest days of the year this week. (By PA) The heady aroma of coffee carried us up a...