The Saturday Morning Entertainment Show

It's September and as the days get shorter the birthday list begins to get longer. And the Saturday Morning Entertainment Show, brought to you by Caribbean Global Voices will be right there to wish you happy birthday and extend your greetings across the world. Guess what? Even Ivor had to get in on the fun. From now on, Ivor will be celebrating something in September. We will be counting and celebrating the wedding anniversaries of Ivor and Barbara. For now and the rest of September let's just say Congratulations to them both.

In the midst of this excitement, serious things are happening as well and we going to have  a conversation about them. Queen Elizabeth II, the head of the British Empire and Commonwealth has died. Reaction to her death is mixed. To put it lightly, not everyone is in mourning. The expressions range from grief over her death to the pain of what her social stature symbolized in an Empire built from the colonization of the world. Professor Uju Anya of Carnegie Mellon University in Philadelphia stated when her illness was announced just before she died, "I heard the chief monarch of a thieving, raping genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating". Anya's mother is Trinidadian her father is Nigerian. The response to her comments are also mixed. What do you think? Let's hear from you. Trevor Sinclair a former Man City mid-fielder said "Black and brown people should not mourn the queen's death because racism was allowed to thrive in England under her reign.

Former Altanta official Mitzi Bickers has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after having been convicted of participating in a grand corruption and bribery scheme. If her conviction is legitimate, how do we make sense of it? Is the effort to create a black aristocracy inspiring Black people to resort to corruption? Is this part of the great gains of civil rights?         .