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America: a place of refuge?
Today for my class on Holocaust history, we watched the film, Woman in Gold. The film is about an Austrian Holocaust survivor, Maria Altmann, who discovered late in life that a famous painting of her aunt was stolen by the Nazis. With the help of a young Jewish...
Book Award and Jamaicans Advocate for Windrush Generation
Alford Gardner, SS Windrush passenger Full Professor and Book award This month marks the first month of my promotion to full professor. I have to confess that when I started on this journey I did not think all these years later I would still be in academia or that...
A Life Well Spent R.I.P.Dr. Ron Myers
I have been thinking a lot about a life well spent. It is not about fame or fortune or even length of years. Dr. Ron Myers, a man of faith, lived and died so honorably. He was a doctor, a preacher, a musician, and an activist. For years, he lobbied US Presidents...
Tearing down Confederate statues leaves structural racism intact
When protesters tore down the “Silent Sam” Confederate statue at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill on Aug. 20, it wasn’t just destruction of state property - a crime for which the protesters are now being investigated. Rather, the protesters knocked a...
The Kenya Chronicles: Wangari Maathai and Kenya’s protection of its Environment and Natural Resources
Who is Wangari Maathai? Wangari Maathai is a Kenyan woman who literally helped save thousands of acres of land from deforestation. Her Greenbelt movement which continues to this day helps to preserve Kenya’s heritage for present and future generations. For these...
The Kenya Chronicles
Today marks the beginning of The Kenya Chronicles—intermittent news and articles about the country of Kenya. I am here on the African continent for three weeks having been invited by a local university to give a talk about the highs and lows of publishing works of...
