HAPPY NEW YEAR I wanted to list some 2017 predictions as is customary by many publications for their New Year’s issues. I recently learned about an extraordinary psychic/clairvoyant, Uversa Oumbajuah, who predicted in August that a Donald Trump would win the Presidential Election, and she foresaw subsequent events unfold in his administration. Ms. Oumbajuah holds […]readmore
The New York Chapter of the National Association of Kawaida Organizations (NAKO) & The International African Arts Festival (IAA Festival) will host a 50th Anniversary of Kwanzaa Celebration with the Creator of Kwanzaa, Dr. Maulana Karenga, who will be giving his Annual Founder’s Message. 2016 Theme: Kwanzaa, The Nguzo Saba and Constant Striving: Repairing, Renewing […]readmore
If we accept as valid the proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child”, and if we cannot identify the village, do we resign ourselves to being unable to raise our children or do we re-create the village? The saying was quite popular a few years back but is not heard as much, if […]readmore
“There was this old Mohawk elder talking to his grandson. He says that there is a fight going on inside him. He said it is between two wolves.” One wolf is evil: anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego… The other wolf is good: joy, peace, […]readmore
“The community is a body in which every individual is a cell. No harmful or inappropriate cell is allowed to remain in the body. One way or another it will be ejected. One must learn how to function as a healthy cell in order to earn the privilege of staying in the body and keeping […]readmore