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Then finally, when i was 25, i took my fathers name. Cspan where did you get the name skippy . Guest from the time i was born the day i was born, my uncle raymond called me skipper, and then it became skippy. We were piedmonts on the river piedmont, West Virginia, is on the Potomac River, two hours west of washington, so theres a whole marine mentality there, and so i became the skipper. Cspan before we go back and talk about the past, what are you doing now . Guest im the chairman of afroameric...

Next to an attorney for two National Black writers conference, panel called shifting identities in africa and the african gasper appeared this is about an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] okay, ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to go. Jeffrey Bernard Allen is here. As the panelists come in, they are in transit and they can join us. Ready, jeffrey . Brother jeffrey . Hello, thank you. Anyone hear me . Can you hear me . Soleus looking for a couple of our panelists who are opposed someon...

Hand atjuggling of ireland. Prince william tried his hand at juggling as of ireland. Prince william tried his hand atjuggling as the couple were shown some of the arts and entertainment taking place during galways year as European Capital of culture. Very good. Time for a look at the weather. Heres phil avery. A bracing start to say the least across the northern half of the British Isles. This was the scene in the scottish borders. It was not like that everywhere. Across southern counties of eng...

LOVE the Dark Days, journalist Ira Mathur's prizewinning memoir, will arrive in her homeland when it is released by an Indian publisher.

On a chilly spring day, I arrived in the salubrious setting of Wellesley College in Massachusetts to honour towering Trinidadian Pan-African scholar, Selwyn Cudjoe, who was retiring from the liberal arts institution after 38 years, having earlier...

Writing is a solitary experience. It’s you and your thoughts—all the chatter is internal. I do not quiver at the notion of solitude; I’m quite happy to be ensconced within my brain.When I fi

Stabroek News has posted a detailed assessment of the watercolor paintings of St Lucia’s Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott. Here are some excerpts, with the link to the full article below. Moreover, Walcott is also an artist; he has been a painter all his life, but serious critical attention to his drawings and paintings…

One crucial, if not the only, significance of May Day resides in connecting oppressed subjects.

It is not for nothing that this May Day, several organisations, collectives, and groups across the world have strongly prioritised supporting the besieged Palestinian people in their ongoing struggle against US-backed Israeli genocide and Zionist settler colonialism.

How to Say Babylon by Jamaican author Safiya Sinclair is the winner of the overall 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.The prize comes with a cash award of US$10,000,