On January 6, 2021, an angry mob stormed the Capitol building in Washington DC. They were self-proclaimed patriots with the intent of hanging the Vice President, killing the Speaker of the House and harming other members of Congress. This mob consisted of Trump supporters and included a coalition of Evangelical…

In the aftermath of the Civil War, America was left to consider the sacrifices made and why God continued to shed His grace on thee. And so, the nation rallied around the man that saved the Union and who once again made us “One Nation Under God.” In a strange…

The more things change, the more they remain the same. From 1882 to 1968, 3, 446 blacks were lynched in America. Sad but true, George Floyd’s death is just one of many troubling and pervasive sagas in American history. Black lives have never truly mattered and some whites subconsciously and…

Some of the major problems confronting us in the battle against COVID-19 are: the supply of ventilators and Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) along with the staffing and infection of doctors and nurses. With the number of COVID-19 cases increasing exponentially around the world, we must develop alternative ways to combat…

When we think of Ancient Egypt, we often think of the age of the pharaohs, of biblical stories of its greatness and its oppression of Jews. In recent times, however, many scholars revisited its history based on excavations, stories and history written in their native tongue to extract the truth…

The Pyramids and the Sphinx stand as monuments of time in a land known for its antiquity. When Napoleon visited the Pyramids, it was two-thousand years after Alexander the Great’s trip which was two-thousand years after they were built. The Pyramids of Egypt are the only standing monuments of the…

The annals of antiquity are full of stories about slavery as if it was a natural condition of humankind. Notwithstanding, when we think of slavery today, we often think of the African slave trade. However, slavery at its core is not about race, it’s about indifference. The African slave trade…

Music has been around perhaps as long as man’s consciousness. However, it wasn't until Pythagoras (570–495) quantified the rules of music that the system enjoyed in the Western world was developed. Building on the foundation laid by Pythagoras, we have uncovered not only its intrinsic beauty but the mathematics that…

Before Richard Wright and James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison and other African American writers of the 20th century, there were black writers of distinction of which any race would be proud. Chief among them were Alexander Dumas (1802-1870) and Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837). Both men were the progeny…