I Am Wide Awake

I hope I am not being totally unrealistic or naive when I say that I honestly thought the rallying cry against the cruel, excessive and inhuman treatment of Black people who are suspected by the police of breaking the law would actually come from the white segment of our society.

I’d like to admit that I have always been fascinated by the concept of being “born again.” Myself being raised in an Orthodox Church, where a person’s Christian identity has been sealed and imprinted at his infancy, which can never be  questioned, I find the aspiration of a person now as an adult and mature individual willing to reaffirm his fai

It has passed three years since the Alabama Republican governor, Kay Ivey, during the congregational elections, referring to the Senate candidate Roy Moore, accused of child molestation, made her infamous claim that, “We’d rather have a child molester in the Senate than a Democrat.” Although three years is a long time, that statement still echoe

It has been a couple of weeks or so since the day when U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho (R-Fla.) addressed his female colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) with the most obscene and sexist language.

It has been a few months now. I keep reminding myself I am at an age when I should not act like a 10-year-old kid who is bewildered by the fact that there has been no official baseball game yet this season.