Adulation keeps flowing in, after the release of Black Panther, Marvel’s black superhero movie that features many Black firsts: the all Black star-studded cast, led by a Black superhero, and his Black love interest, was directed by a Black man.

In a Ted talk in 2009, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, highlighted the “danger of a single story”, as it assumes that a person’s identity is one dimensional, and thus negates any other aspects.

Imperialist war, the dignity of work and the ultimate objective of total freedom

SHARMINI PERIES: It is The Real News Network. I am Sharmini Peries coming to you from Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.

When the press and media of the so-called Western world adjust their depiction of a nation they had formally demonised to a depiction of one worthy of cooperation we should pause for a more critical analysis.

Behind the Trump veneer is a system of oppression and exploitation, which must be uprooted.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of the central figure in the movement for civil rights and peace in the United States during the 1960s.

Another look at Martin Luther King Jr.

“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic…” Martin Luther King Jr. said this in a letter to his future wife Coretta Scott on 18 July 1953.

It was less than a year ago on 15 March 2017 when I sat down with Hugh in Sandton, Johannesburg to talk about his support and participation in the second Kwame Nkrumah Cultural and Intellectual Festival.

The rising tide of racism is borne out of a recycled old belief that black and brown people are genetically inferior.

As there goes a Kiswahili saying “Safari moja huanzisha nyengine” meaning “One journey leads to another”, I indeed had my fair share of first-hand experience on the profound richness and intense meaning of the saying.