COLUMNIST: LENROD NZULU BARAKA

The Godfather in the White House

May 1, 2025 | Feature Article

In the buildup to his first term as President of the US Donald Trump boasted that he could shoot someone and still ma ...

The Black Clergy and White Supremacy

Mar 27, 2025 | Feature Article

The movie Harriet begins with a scene showing a congregation of slaves on a southern plantation in Maryland, USA. The sh ...

The Pale Horse and the Black Collective

Mar 20, 2025 | Feature Article

In the Apocalypse of the New Testament which bears the name of the apostle John, a pale horse appears on the canvas draw ...

Shrinking Our Way to Mediocrity

Mar 10, 2025 | Feature Article

Abortion has been and continues to be a disaster story for Black communities in the Diaspora. The number of abortions pe ...

Obeah and Black Self-Hatred

Mar 4, 2025 | Feature Article

In 1760 the Tacky Slave Rebellion on the island of Jamaica resulted in the passage of a law targeting all forms of Afric ...

Africans and Outsiders

Feb 25, 2025 | Feature Article

Our esteemed wiseman and teacher John Henrick Clarke reminded us in one of his lectures that no group of people have com ...

The US and Israel Against the World

Feb 16, 2025 | Feature Article

January 20, 2025 marked the genesis of global Trump Saga II as the US and Israel deepened their seemingly unbreakable bo ...

The Technology of Death

Feb 13, 2025 | Feature Article

Recently I watched a documentary on the making of the Shaka Zulu miniseries. The documentary joggled my memory and ma ...

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 ...

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