Where does it begin? When does it end?
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY Woman and girl power movements have lit up the world stage, and even Jay Z has joined in the dialogue. Jay Z …
We stand to take our country back
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY Earlier this week we celebrated the great Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The MLK holiday season even yielded four day …
It’s a brand new year
17-year-old Ulysses Wilkerson was beaten so severely by police in Alabama that he required surgery. PHOTO COURTESY OF MIC By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY Happy? I sure …
Look at me
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY Look at me! All of me: from my head to my toe; front to back. And, don’t forget to look at my …
Hypocrisy has trumped logic, faith and common sense
Donna Brazile PHOTO COURTESY OF LEADING AUTHORITIES SPEAKERS BUREAU By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY The silly season, aka Halloween, is over. We are about to usher in …
We tell our story in indelible ink
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY South Florida is getting ready for the annual Miami Book Fair, now in its 43rd year, and each year, hordes of black …
Hateful symbols reveal America’s growing disunity
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY Once there was a time when it was necessary to paint our faces, wear certain fabric patterns, and carry specific insignia to …
Stories that must be told
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY Do you realize that our history is, at best, being rewritten? At worst, it is being erased. And how is that happening? …
Mother Nature’s new normal
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY Right now we need to prepare for the ‘new normal’, and begin to anticipate a much longer future out. We need to …
Black people are a displaced people
By ANTONIA WILLIAMS-GARY For years, I struggled with a clear and tenable definition of myself: I was born colored; became a Negro, then a Black …