By LENNOX FARRELL   Around 1960, with scores of other high-school students also seated in a Port-of-Spain fish-market – still smelly though disinfected for the occasion – I took the London General C
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By LENNOX FARRELL   What do the capital cities of Western civilization have in common?   According to an episode of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s “Ideas” program, the cities o
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By LENNOX FARRELL   This is the title of an autobiography by John Taylor, son of Jamaican immigrants to England in the 1950s. Today, Lord Taylor of Warwick, he is the first Black peer appointed to the B
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By LENNOX FARRELL   The African-American author, Ralph Ellison, is best known for his novel, Invisible Man. In it, he describes, in an autobiographical manner, an invisible individual who cannot be seen
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By LENNOX FARRELL   “African-Born U.S. Residents are the Most Highly Educated Group in American Society.”   A search for similar information for these students in Canada and elsewhere pro
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By LENNOX FARRELL   If there is one fact useful in addressing the issue of “Black on Black violence” it is that it is an issue that is multi-dimensional.   Among these dimensions is that
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By LENNOX FARRELL   Poverty is violence. But what is wealth? Most of us associate it with money, savings, brokerage, insurance, investments, our homes or other forms of financial capital.   F
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By LENNOX FARRELL   Why do we sometimes choose not to act, when we know we should and can?   In too many instances we do not take action we see needed because we think our efforts might be wa
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By LENNOX FARRELL   Can the changes as small as those caused in the air by a nearby butterfly flapping its wings, eventually become so significant, it results in the creation of a hurricane?  
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LENNOX FARRELL    In an earlier article, reference was made to the Christian comedian, Steve Harvey, who after hosting his own TV show for 27 years, made the following comment about retiring from stand
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