This Photo is a screen shot from a documentary called “Small Targets: Children and Landmines in Mozambique,” which explores the issue of land mines in Mozambique and how it directly affects the most innocent of victims; the children! There are 110 million land mines in 70 countries, of those about half are in 11 African [...]
Published by March 27th, 2008 in African and Current Issues.Archive for the 'Current Issues' Category
I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, [...]
Published by March 18th, 2008 in Current Issues and Noteworthy.Inflation; the process in which prices of goods and services increases through a period of time. Usually the rate of inflation is measured annually for most if not all currencies. Here in bernos our European customers have even suggested that our prices are cheap in comparison to what they pay at the Gap or where [...]
Published by March 12th, 2008 in African and Current Issues.Happy endings included! I was out with the boys when it was mentioned that Abesha girls were offering sensual services for monetary compensation here in no other than Washington DC. A massage parlor although technically and legally meaning ‘a place where a customer receives therapeutic massage;’ is in tradition and reality synonymous with a brothel [...]
Published by March 5th, 2008 in Current Issues and Social.I was recently volunteering for a non-profit organization that was hosting a Pan African film festival as part of its racial tolerance and cultural promotion endeavors. In a city where a black face is pretty scarce, it’s events like these that draw all of us out from our little holes and bring us together to [...]
Published by February 25th, 2008 in African and Current Issues.
