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Guest AuthorJune 24, 2015

As I began to write this column, my ears rang with the news of another senseless shooting. This time it’s nine people slain at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. It hit particularly close to home because it’s the same denomination church my family helped found in Sarasota and that I […]

Guest AuthorApril 29, 2015

I grew up in a segregated community in Florida and attended supposedly “separate but equal” schools in a small town that had separate water fountains, bathrooms and even beaches, among other restrictions. We were expected to cross the street when a white woman was approaching and never look a white man in the eyes – […]

Guest AuthorDecember 28, 2014

Everybody has a perception about what the image of art should say – or not say – but few have an informed opinion. The power of the communicative arts transcends the mere power to inform. That power is used in film, television, newspapers, radio, art, magazines, music, theatre and the new social media network as […]

Guest AuthorOctober 20, 2014

When defining the ethnicity, gender and race of American society, I find it is interrelated with the cultural dialogue. The African-American experience has always been tied to those topics. In America, the concept of the “one-drop rule” — that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person a black — was founded on sub-Saharan […]

Guest AuthorAugust 17, 2014

Everyone in the world eats salad of some sort. We enjoy all the different ingredients in our salads depending on what we have a taste for at the time. We expect the different types of ingredients we select to bring their own flavor to the bowl. When it is mixed just right, depending on the […]

Tag: Anthony Major

Anthony Major: “Be Nice to People”: Grandmother's advice could fix many problems

Anthony Major: Live, learn – and let live

Anthony Major: Negative stereotypes in film spark society’s unrest

Anthony Major: Playwrights helped explain the black experience to America

Anthony B. Major: Goldsboro and the lessons of diversity