Betty Baye, Louisville Courier-Journal: "The three flat-screen televisions in the main conference room at the John Seigenthaler Center on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville were all tuned to CNN on Tuesday. But the sound was down because there was a lunch meeting in progress." Read the column

Lewis Diuguid, Kansas City Star: "Kenneth D. Kaunda's spontaneous compliment spoke volumes about an abundant natural resource that Africa needs and we take for granted." Read the column
 

Gregory Kane, Baltimore Sun:
"Twenty years ago to the day. Can you remember what you were doing? Randallstown resident Don Rojas can. He was on the run, trying to elude patrols that had been ordered to shoot him on sight. This all-too-real drama took place in the tiny nation of Grenada, which lies near the end of a long chain of eastern Caribbean islands." Read the column

 
Dwight Lewis, Nashville Tennessean: "Who cares about Zambia?'' a dear friend remarked after asking my subject for today's column. A lot of people should, I replied — in fact, not just about Zambia but the whole continent of Africa." Read the column

 
Sheryl McCarthy, Newsday: "Starving children with distended bellies. Boys with rifles. Refugees fleeing civil wars and atrocities of all kinds. Corrupt heads of state. Crime and instability. And millions dying of AIDS. These are the images that come to mind when Americans think of Africa." Read the column

Les Payne, Newsday: "It was 20 years ago that the United States invaded a tiny Caribbean island and, in a military move presaging the Iraq misadventure, executed a regime change that cost 88 lives." Read the column

Steve Penn, Kansas City Star: "They are scientific questions without answers. Why do African-Americans possess a greater propensity to develop cancer and die from the disease than whites? Is it in our diets? Is it genetics? Is it our lack of exercise?" Read the column

David Person, Huntsville Times: "Some of the black community's leaders and thinkers have black men on the brain. The topic came up over and over during this week's annual meeting of the Trotter Group, an organization of black columnists and commentators." Read the column

Tonyaa Weathersbee, blackamericaweb.com: "'To say that the Patriot Act is working because there haven’t been any more terrorist attacks is like me saying I have an elephant gun in my office, and because I haven’t seen any elephants, the gun is working,' the director of Washington legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union said at Vanderbilt University this week." Read the column [Site requires registration]

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