BTColumn – Affirmation of the darker brother (Part 2) Article by May 9, 2021 Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed by this author are their own and do not represent the official position of the Barbados Today Inc. by David Comissiong It is well-nigh impossible to write the history of the USA without finding a place of special prominence for a whole host of black West Indians who, from the days of the Independence struggle down to contemporary times, made critical contributions to the social, cultural and political development of that nation and to the extension of civil and human rights. I refer to such personalities as Prince Hall, James G. Barbadoes, David Augustus Straker, Cyril Briggs, Hubert Harrison, Marcus Garvey, Joel Rogers, Claude Mc Kay, Richard B. Moore, Amy Jacques Garvey, Rabbi Arnold J Ford, Claudia Jones, George Padmore, CLR James, W A Domingo, Carlos Cooks, Sidney Poitier, Arturo Schomburg and Stokely Carmichael, to say nothing of the multitude of contributors of Caribbean parentage – Malcom X, Grace P. Campbell, Irving Burgie, Shirley Chisholm, Louis Farrakhan, Paule Marshall, and the