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Called Home to Glory: The Ancestors Receive a Giant

on February 20th, 2026 by Honore K. Gbedze

Life is never made to last forever, but one thing is certain your legacy on this rental planet will. A giant among giants, a child of the Sun, has crossed to the other side. The Honorable Jesse Jackson was destiny shaped for leadership  a champion of peace, a relentless global citizen, proudly Black and beautifully bold.

Filed under: Editor’s Note, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: proudly Black and beautifully bold., Rest in eternal power., social conference., The Ancestors Receive a Giant, world.

In the Darkest Hours, the Sun Still Rises

on January 31st, 2026 by Honore K. Gbedze

In this historical month of February 2026, the world continues to move through a season of deep uncertainty. Anxiety lingers in the air. Fear of grand calamities social, political, environmental echoes across nations. For many, the future feels fragile, as though the ground beneath us is shifting faster than our ability to understand it. And

Filed under: Canadian News, Editor’s Note, Editorials, Features, Local News, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: Black History Month, Celebrate, dignity and peace, enduring power of hope., February, remembering resilience, wisdom

A Solemn Year of Victory Over the Dark Truths of Our Time

on December 18th, 2025 by Honore K. Gbedze

As the year comes to a close and the world prepares to enter a new chapter, this moment calls for more than seasonal reflection. It calls for truth, accountability, and moral clarity. To those who occupy positions of leadership and privilege: discrimination whether expressed openly or concealed behind silence has no place in a just

Filed under: Canadian News, Editor’s Note, Editorials, Features, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge, World Tagged as: human rights, Immigration Policy, Leadership & Ethics, Opinion / Op-Ed, social justice, Year-End Reflection

Humanity Drowning

on December 9th, 2025 by Honore K. Gbedze
Journalist

Reflection transformed into a powerful, spoken-word style poem Where is the leader we once knew? The one we looked up to not for power, but for truth? Once, a voice could rise above the noise. A light in the dark, a mind with vision, a heart with courage. A soul that carried hope. But now

Filed under: Canadian News, Editor’s Note, Familly Matters, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: poem, powerful, Reflection, spoken-word, transformed

When Mediocrity is Crowned: A Call to Remember

on September 29th, 2025 by Honore K. Gbedze

In the quiet middle of the night, when everything seems calm and still, a strange unrest stirs within. The world sleeps, but your mind does not. It wrestles with the sharp edges of reality, searching, reaching. Your eyes stay wide open, burning; your ears hum with a ringing silence heavy with meaning. Whispers rise like

Filed under: Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: flattery, performance. forged in applause, the masses., titles, True Leadership

A Giant Branch of the Ebony Tree Has Fallen

on September 18th, 2025 by Honore K. Gbedze

Honourable Senator Oliver: I became a senator in 1990, and since that time, there have been enormous changes in our Canadian society and Canadians have been forced to recognize the fact that White people don’t own and run a country of 33 million people anymore.

Filed under: Canadian News, Familly Matters, Features, Local News, News, Opinion/Comment Tagged as: 21st century, African Canadian, African heritage, Black family, Canada, Canadian Forces Medallion, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Rest in power, Senator Donald Oliver, Senator Oliver passed away, The Afro News, Underground Railroad, Vimy Ridge

Humanity Drowning in the Absence of Leadership

on August 17th, 2025 by Honore K. Gbedze

Leadership, once a beacon, now flickers faintly in the vast storm of our times. We are at a low point — not just in politics or policy, but in the soul of humanity. And so I ask: What are we teaching the next generation? What example are we setting? Once, as a young man, you could look up

Filed under: Editor’s Note, Opinion/Comment, Point of View Tagged as: inspiration., Integrity, Leadership, policy, politics

The Age of American Leadership is Over 

on June 12th, 2025 by The Afro News

Global trust in U.S. leadership has collapsed, and the free world must now find its own way forward   The miracle that was Pax Americana is past; the century of American stewardship of the free world is collapsing. The question is, what, if anything, will replace it?  Throughout the 20th century, the United States became

Filed under: Business, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge, World Tagged as: American stewardship, global investment, Pax Americana, trading patterns

The Word That Matters Most:  “TRUST “

on April 1st, 2025 by Honore K. Gbedze

There is a word that is fundamental and appears in situations of importance to us – human resources, personal development as individuals and for communities as well as organizations and nations.  Why is this so crucial? Because when trust is broken, everything is crushed and crumbled. Success at any level comes down to this keyword.

Filed under: Editor’s Note, Familly Matters, Opinion/Comment, Point of View, Self Improvement, The Bridge Tagged as: communities, companies, Family, How did we arrive at this stage on the world’s platform of a leading democracy, Leading with trust brings dignity and this is a precious value of life., nations destroyed, Success at any level comes down to this keyword trust, value of life.

Legacy of Fairness and Equality in Building Democratic Society 

on February 18th, 2025 by Honore K. Gbedze

The price for freedom, justice, liberation, advocacy of human rights in an effort to raise a peaceful society over the last 401 years of black people sharpening America’s democracy. Part I  On the morning of 30 July 2020 while watching the remembrance ceremony of the great Civil Right’s Congressman, John Robert Lewis i was taken in by all

Filed under: Opinion/Comment, Point of View, The Bridge Tagged as: 401 years of black people sharpening America’s democracy., Black Legacy of Fairness and Equality, Building Democratic Society, The price for freedom
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