By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka One lesson that people of African ancestry should have been able to extract from the last 500 years of world history is that might is right and that the powerful rule over and exploit the weak. Whenever the mighty and the weak face off on the battle field in the real […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka Perhaps one of the most feared group of persons on slave plantations in the New World were men and women who practiced the ancient African spiritual sciences called Obeah and Voodoo. These men and women rose to positions of leadership among the slaves on the plantations. Europeans very often were forced […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka A very good friend of mine just sent me a video on WhatsApp in which an African American woman is advising people of African ancestry to stay out of the conflict between the Jews and the Arabs. The rationale for her injunction lies in the historical and ongoing reality of anti-Black […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka The Jewish ancestor Solomon, for reasons best known to Jews and Christians, is credited as being the wisest man ever to have lived. Solomon’s stature among the sagacious probably stems from the allegation that he had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. Considering the world class education one woman can […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka It is extremely commendable that the churches in the Caribbean and Africa have finally found their voice and are rallying people of African ancestry around a cause. After five hundred years of deafening silence on a range of social justice issues, the African and Caribbean church has finally broken its silence […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka The Willie Lynch letter, a purported list of suggestions made by a Caucasian West Indian plantation owner to his counterparts in Virginia USA, had as its central thesis the notion of creating all kinds of divisions between enslaved people of African ancestry. The objective behind the divisions was to keep Black […]
