By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka The appellations of racist, terrorist, and anti-Semite are three of the most highly charged labels invoked by culture warriors on the contemporary global, social, and ideological battle fields. Any one saddled with these labels run the risk of being cancelled, which could mean being fired, isolated, whitelisted (formerly called blacklisted) or […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka As American and Israeli munitions continue to rain down death on Palestinian women and children, African Americans are gravitating to both sides of the ideological war taking place in America and around the globe. Black faces in high places have registered both support for and dissent against an immediate cease fire […]
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 […]
Anyone who has been following the flow of events in Haiti would have to agree that Haiti is in a state of profound crisis. The assassination of President Jovenel Moise has plunged Haiti into a state of renewed unrest that is threatening to reduced Haiti to an ungovernable failed state. To date, the authorities in […]
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 The further back we go in history the more glaringly evident it is that humanity at its most primal stage of development had a proclivity for a plurality of gods and goddesses. Africans, long regarded as the oldest civilizational group on earth, evolved religious systems which had at their heart, the […]
By Lenrod Nzulu Baraka – Our great ancestor Malcolm X was very prescient when he reminded us that those who refused to treat us right will hardly ever teach us right. Another of our illustrious ancestors Marcus Garvey alluded to the same reality when he said that the oppressor will never teach the oppressed how […]
