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  Could Trump trigger another “Red Summer” in America?

  Deidre Gantt

  Back in 2015 and 2016, many people watched Donald Trump’s election campaign and thought there was no way the same country that elected President Barack Obama — not once, but twice — would...

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  Meet three iconic black inventors who received patents in July

  Deidre Gantt

  In recent years, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) has become a popular education strategy to encourage black youth and many others to pursue these lucrative and useful professions....

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  The little-known story of how Haile Selassie became the symbol of the Rastafarian movement

  Deidre Gantt

  On July 23, 1892, a child was born in a village in eastern Ethiopia. He was named Lij Tafari in Amharic, which translates to mean a child of royal birth who is respected or feared (dreaded). As a regent...

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  What can today’s repatriates learn from Americo-Liberian history?

  Deidre Gantt

  This month makes 172 years since these Americo-Liberians declared their “independence” from the United States of America on July 26, 1847. For thousands of free-born and formerly enslaved descendants...

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  MAAFA: Remembering our enslaved ancestors before, during and after the Year of Return

  Deidre Gantt

  In just over a month, African Americans and other members of the African diaspora will gather on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean for the historic “Jamestown to Jamestown” pilgrimage sponsored...

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  African “Americana” – Black country music singers you should get to know

  Deidre Gantt

  Several years ago, I spent a couple of weeks in Grenada, a small three-island nation in the Eastern Caribbean. We rented a beautiful yet affordable guest house from an elder Grendian woman named Mrs. Eileen,...

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