COLUMNIST: LENROD NZULU BARAKA

The Enemy of my Enemy

Feb 4, 2025 | Feature Article

Adolf Hitler has been much maligned and rightly so for plunging the world into the horrors of World War II and for givin ...

The Black Church and Black History Month

Jan 28, 2025 | Feature Article

For forty-eight weeks out of every year Black churches in the Diaspora and on the African continent regale people of Afr ...

The Essential Selfishness of Survival

Jan 20, 2025 | Feature Article

Chancellor Williams writing in his eminently readable and enjoyable Destruction of Black Civilization, informs th ...

Problems and Solutions

Jan 13, 2025 | Feature Article

As this planet, which we call home, begins another annual journey around the sun I would like to invite the global Black ...

What’s in a Name

Jan 6, 2025 | Feature Article

In the last book of the Christian scriptures, overcomers from the church of Pergamos were told that they would receive a ...

Was Jesus Antisemitic

Dec 29, 2024 | Feature Article

People of African and Jewish ancestry share in common an aversion to the mildest of extra-group criticism. Blacks and ...

Christmas before the Christ

Dec 23, 2024 | Feature Article

Perhaps one of the most delightfully contradictory occurrences in the Christian faith is the presence of so many reli ...

Moving Right Out of Babylon

Dec 14, 2024 | Feature Article

The Rastafarian movement is perhaps one of the most popular Afro-Caribbean religious expressions globally. Bob Marley, u ...

The Inner Racist Beast of America

Dec 1, 2024 | Feature Article

Racism in America is as American as is apple pie. From 1619 until now, children of Africa have been catching hell in Ame ...

The African Concept of Deity

Nov 23, 2024 | Feature Article

In his book Africa rsquo;s Roots in God, Sednak Kojo Yankson is adamant that Africans knew the great Creator long before ...

The Hypocrisy of the Righteous

Nov 17, 2024 | Feature Article

In the 2020 US presidential election, Caucasian evangelicals threw the weight of their support behind the candidacy of D ...

Reaping the Whirlwind

Nov 10, 2024 | Feature Article

Now that the result of the US presidential election is known, the Democratic Party and indeed, politicians around the wo ...

The Harris and Trump Circus

Nov 3, 2024 | Feature Article

On November 4, Americans will finalize their choice of president for the next four years. The two main presidential cand ...

Lenrod Nzulu Baraka

Lenrod Nzulu Baraka is a graduate of the University of the Southern Caribbean with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Religion and History. He is the author of several books including Piarco Affair, The Black Paradigm, Echoes of the Ancestors, The Rebirth of Black Civilization, Oreos Coconuts and Negrope. More Lenrod Nzulu Baraka (aka Leonard R. Phillips) is a native of the Caribbean island of Barbados. HIs hobbies include reading, writing, travelling and meeting interesting people. He describes himself as an Afrocentric Freethinker with a Black Christocentric bias. Lenrod has a great sense of humor and enjoys watching and reading anything that is funny. He favorite genres of music include reggae, calypso and easy listening. His favorite Black artistes are Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and the Mighty Sparrow. He is also an eternal fan of Phil Colins. He will read anything by Tom Sharpe, Stephen King or Malachi Martin