Being black in America already has lots stacked against all black folks, particularly dark-skinned African extraction from Africa migrate to America. You are presumed guilty of many things. “Black in America” is like a fortress that is all at once forbidding and inviting. As an African arriving in America, I[Read More…]
Opinion
Madi Jobarteh: US Police Brutality Has Arrived On Gambian Shores! Time To Act
We are deeply saddened at the news of the shooting to death of a Gambian youth Momodou Lamin Sisay today by the US Police even as we continue to grieve the senseless, deliberate and racist murder of George Floyd by the same US Police. As usual the US Police has[Read More…]
Alagi Yorro Jallow: America-Gambia: Police Bestiality And Police Brutality Against Blacks
” These opening lines of a speech by Mark Antony in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar had a hauntingly familiar ring. George Floyd is a metaphor. Besides, George Floyd is a message to black people all over the world: Civil rights activists, politicians, and speaker after speaker waxed poetic, quoting extensively[Read More…]