A few weeks ago, I was enraptured by the news of the day, as former President Donald J. Trump, dismissively referred to as Mr. Trump by members of the federal judiciary, awaited his inevitable fate. It was the fourth Indictment Watch of the season, perceived by this writer as the…

The longest day of my life, when the passage of seconds felt like minutes and the ticking of minutes felt like hours, took place in early May 2009. Consequently, I would age ten years on a day that seemed to go on forever. As a first-year general education teacher at…

In my sixteenth year of being an avid connoisseur and purveyor of politics, I have become addicted to monitoring the game. Of course, it began with the advent of Barack Hussein Obama, a product of miscegenation, an illegal practice in most of the country in 1961, the year of his…

She will become one of our greatest justices — A few weeks ago, shortly after the Supreme Court voted to maintain status quo voting rights for black Americans in Alabama, followed by their jettisoning of the Independent State Legislature appeal, a policy that would have led to the evisceration of voting rights for black Americans, I evinced a hope…

Everyone in the Community, a tight-knit group of Nigerian diaspora located in the United States, wants to see me get married. To them, marriage and progeny define an existence. Oftentimes, I can hold the same belief, though I could do without the constant reminders. At the behest of my mother…

As President Joe Biden wades deeper into the 2024 reelection cesspool, salient questions have arisen concerning his advanced age. At eighty years old, Biden is by far the oldest man or woman to run for America’s most exalted office. …

Take a long look at the man pictured above. Study his visage and photograph it, because I want the memory implanted in every crevice of your brain. Upon initial perception of this person, a veritable stranger to all who choose to read this essay, one would probably ascertain him as…

Firstly, let me just state that I abhor the credit to your race phrase, as it has been a patently odious way for racist people to refer to any black person they purport to admire. Black people are generally good people, family-oriented, relentlessly god-fearing, and law-abiding. We do have our…

As a high school student, I was unlike most of my peers. Because I liked attending secondary school, and for an assortment of reasons. For I was an academic star, one of the roughly forty students who were members of the top ten percent of the graduating class. I participated…