Category: Rants & Raves

The Gore Collection of Rare African-American Artifacts Hopes to Inspire Empathy and Discourse

by admin | Mar 4, 2018 | Rants & Raves | 0 |

Footsteps to You – Chattel Slavery opened this week at UC Riverside’s Special Collections...

New West Valley Water District Ratepayers Association Organized

by admin | Jan 14, 2018 | Rants & Raves | 0 |

Paulette Brown Hinds, PhD Last week my column highlighted more questionable activities at the West...

West Valley Water District Birds of Feathers Flock Together

by admin | Jan 4, 2018 | Rants & Raves | 0 |

Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD I inherited my passion for opinion writing from my dad, Hardy L. Brown,...

Small Acts of Kindness in 2018

by admin | Jan 1, 2018 | Rants & Raves | 0 |

Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD Several years ago I wrote a column about how simple small acts of...

The Top 10 Reasons Why The West Valley Water District Looks A lot Like The City of Bell

by admin | Dec 16, 2017 | Rants & Raves | 0 |

Paulette Brown-Hinds Historic silences have been broken and bad behavior has been exposed. With...

Learning from Lulamae

by admin | Dec 3, 2017 | Rants & Raves | 0 |

Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD Over one hundred friends and community leaders gathered to celebrate the...

The Virtue of Gratitude

by admin | Nov 23, 2017 | Rants & Raves | 0 |

I am grateful this holiday season to you – our dedicated readers – for supporting Voice Media...

Investing in the Future of Our Community

by admin | Nov 22, 2017 | Rants & Raves | 0 |

Last month I opened a fund at The Community Foundation for the work we are doing around digital...

CARB Facility Breaks Ground in Riverside

by admin | Nov 4, 2017 | Rants & Raves | 0 |

Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD Last week I sat next to a group of employees from the California Air...

Impressions of Blue Cut: Ruins / Renewal

by admin | Oct 28, 2017 | Rants & Raves | 0 |

Written for the exhibition preface: Photographer Benoit Malphettes can see art in anything. A shoe...

Stimulating the Best & Brightest Minds

by admin | Oct 19, 2017 | Rants & Raves | 0 |

Paulette Brown-Hinds, PhD This week The Center for Investigative Reporting released a report...

Celebrate 50 Years With Me

by admin | Oct 18, 2017 | Rants & Raves | 0 |

I usually do not have big birthday celebrations; in fact one of the only big parties I recall...

Dr Main Sidebar

***AFRICAN UBUNTU IS SPIRITUAL “ME/WE” (1)

“ME/WE” is an: "All for One, One for all" concept of African Zulus, called Ubuntu. The Nguni Bantu define it as connection of all “Humanity”—meaning its “Sameness” creation is the Cosmic Force. They translate it as: “I am because we are”; or “Humanity towards others”...

ENSLAVED AFRICAN AMERICANS’ SETTLED BRAIN SWITCH

Throughout his enslavement, Kunta Kinte’s persistent desperate survival situation caused his overactive Autonomic Nervous System and hormone excesses to permanently weaken his physical body. Perhaps most Enslaved distress produced over-working...

ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS OF AFRICAN TRADITION

The System of the Natural World is an Approach (the way) concerned with created Beings functioning as vehicles. From them, Mathematically Structured Things will come into Existence (African, “Essence,” to be as absolutely necessary and with a customized...