by Wendell Griffen | Mar 21, 2022 | Opinion
I am one of the more than 30 million descendants of American slavery. Our enslaved ancestors were shipped, sold, robbed, maimed, raped, murdered and otherwise wronged from 1619, when a Dutch ship named the White Lion arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, until slavery was...
by Wendell Griffen | Feb 8, 2022 | Opinion
Bomb threats were made against at least eight historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) across the United States on Jan. 4, 2022. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (formerly Arkansas AM & N College) was one of the institutions targeted. On Feb....
by Wendell Griffen | Dec 30, 2021 | Opinion
Archbishop Desmond Tutu passed from life in God’s love among us to life in God’s love beyond us on Boxing Day 2021 in his beloved South Africa at the full age of 90. As befitting a Nobel laureate, Desmond Tutu is remembered throughout the world as a courageous,...
by Wendell Griffen | Dec 10, 2021 | Opinion
“And it came to pass.” That five-word phrase in the Bible usually introduces a momentous event, whether favorable or unpleasant. So, let’s consider a few “and it came to pass” events as the world observes Human Rights Day in 2021. “And it came to pass” that humanity...
by Wendell Griffen | Nov 22, 2021 | Opinion
A jury in Kenosha, Wisconsin, found Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of all charges on Nov. 19. Rittenhouse shot two people to death and wounded a third person on Aug. 23, 2020. The people he shot were protesting the Aug. 20, 2020, shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by...
