By Richard Ray: For the past month catastrophic natural disasters have dominated the headlines for most of North America and the Caribbean. Hurricane Harvey deluged parts of Texas including Houston, the nation’s fourth largest city, with torrential rains that saw devastating flooding much of the non-coastal areas had never seen before. Over 70 confirmed deaths […]
By Richard Ray: I am not a native Floridian, but having a residence there for fifteen years now, I am hardly a novice to talks and anxiety related to Hurricanes. People that have actually been negatively impacted from major hurricanes like Andrew, Katrina, Sandy and Harvey, should probably have little patience with all the […]
By Richard Ray: Whenever someone is trending on Twitter or the Internet, my first instinct is to research the subject far greater than the surface level story that usually covers the trending. The Internet is a true savage and undefeated at spreading fake news. If you are a target, right or wrong you have […]
By Richard Ray: Houston and much of Texas hardest hit by Hurricane Harvey are experiencing sunshine for the first time in days. This is not to say that the tragedy is over… far from it. Despite the present lull in rainfall, some are still not out of imminent danger as more flooding is expected […]
By Richard Ray: Too often my features have started off talking about the divisiveness within the United States. Unfortunately the subject is all too real and needs to be discussed in context of talks of change, greater empathy and social justice for all within the US. However, when tragedy strikes America, like the one […]
By Richard Ray: I have written before that “Racists are Immune to Logic and Reason.” However, even that generalization can be made to cover a broader spectrum of people. Calling someone a fool is completely subjective and rude. That label and other name calling should be refrained from whenever possible. However, (the perfect transition […]
By Richard Ray: Some of you may really want to look at your timeline on Facebook and Twitter and make sure that the people you list as friends are really not foes. I understand that talks of politics and religion amongst casual friends is never recommended, but in the world of social media where […]
By Richard Ray: I used to think about death far too often. When I was in college I remembered reading statistics that said roughly 1 in 4 Black males would be either killed or incarcerated before the age of 24. Even as I finished college and graduate school, I lived in an alternative universe […]
By Richard Ray: The back to school commercials that the big chains like Kmart, Target, Macy’s and such employ which begin to signal the impending end of summer, have come to symbolize something far larger to me. Almost all of the commercials attempt to use some form of Hip Hop music (often with a […]
By Richard Ray: Pride is just one of a series of characteristics or attributes that is dually admirable in attaining and complicit in our fallibility as humans. In moderation pride is an admirable quality to have. Perhaps the use of the word moderation could be best used to describe any human characteristic, but pride […]
