By MURPHY BROWNE (Abena Agbetu) “Black America still wears chains. The finest Negro is at the mercy of the meanest White man. Even winners of our highest honours face the class colour bar. With their right ha
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MURPHY BROWNE (Abena Agbetu) “Now I have seen that some of you fear to go forward to fight for our king. If it were in the brave days, the days of Osei Tutu, Okomfo Anokye and Opoku Ware, chiefs would not sit down to see thei
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By MURPHY BROWNE (Abena Agbetu) “Not only does the success of Barack Obama not signify the death of White racism as a personal or institutional phenomenon, if anything, it may well signal the emergence of an
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By MURPHY BROWNE (Abena Agbetu)     The saying “Time flies when you’re having fun” had special meaning for me during the recent March 12-16 March Break. It was a time that I needed to brin
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By MURPHY BROWNE (Abena Agbetu) Since 1966 the United Nations has designated March 21 the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The date was chosen to commemorate the Sharpeville Massa
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By MURPHY BROWNE (Abena Agbetu) March 8 is recognized as International Women’s Day (IWD.) The United Nations endorsed IWD in 1945 and provides this history: “International Women’s Day first emerged from t
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Play tells story of women silenced by ‘witch hunt’   By MURPHY BROWNE (Abena Agbetu) The infamous Melda of the Mighty Sparrow’s Obeah Wedding calypso (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhBoQufPq4E) did not have to
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By MURPHY BROWNE (Abena Agbetu) On February 23, 1763, a group of Africans in the Dutch colony of Berbice, South America (now a county in Guyana), seized their freedom after deciding that they had enough of being
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By MURPHY BROWNE (Abena Agbetu) I hear how they planning for Carnival coming I get information bout the situation They say they go beat people And they don’t care bout trouble<
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