By YOUSEF DRUMMOND ALEX de Tocqueville, a seventeenth-century French aristocrat and lawyer who incidentally was commissioned, along with another influential lawyer, Gustave de Beaumont, by his country’s government, to assess the U.S. penitentiary system, wrote an illuminating text, Democracy in America (1835, 1940), outlining this country’s judicial system. It is, in my opinion, an excellent [...]
YVONNE RIDLEY DOES being President of the United States mean you never have to say ‘sorry’? Just how difficult is it to apologise when you are head of a global super power and you’ve blundered? It was a thought which occurred to me as I was walking around the dust and the rubble of the [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND WHILE the U.S. president zigzags throughout Europe, calling on European allies to join enthusiastically in his efforts at supplanting governments throughout the Middle East, PBS television talk-show host Tavis Smiley will host the “State of the Black Union” symposium for the seventh straight year. Like the previous six symposiums, it will focus [...]
By YOUSEF DRUMMOND SOME time ago while watching a Jamaican news program I was somewhat shocked to learn that a Jewish synagogue existed on Duke Street, a few miles away from Kingston, Jamaica’s capital. According to sources obtained by the news Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam here in the United States, [...]
