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How is it to be back? That's almost always the first question I get asked after we've exuberantly greeted each other. Whether it's friends or family members I haven't seen...

I can only say that it feels increasingly grim in “the greatest nation on the earth”. New York on lockdown was already a strange sensation, but mainly quiet. Most of...

  Following a Facebook column by writer Chris Polanen about homesickness, I spontaneously penned this. It received so many positive reactions that I decided to post it on my own...

Besides the royal wedding itself, the fact that Meghan has a black mother with dreadlocks has left the world in awe. Although I hadn't read an article or seen a...

My mother is the second from the bottom left. Hertha Gullit is the one behind the man holding the LP. Rita Dorothy Lijkwan is the one next to him also...

My father can tell stories like no other. As children, my sister Tineke and I hung on his lips when he told “Anans' Tori”. I can still see us sitting...

The yard By Daisy Hedwig Liong-A-Kong I was born on September 18, 1936 in Paramaribo on the Wagenwegstraat. (After the death of doctor JF Nassy the name of the Wagenwegstraat...

Along with most Americans, I have watched with dismay as Trump has won the election in an unprecedented and unpredictable manner. I, who eight years ago was full of hope...

There has been so much written, tweeted and shared about President Obama. I don't have much to add. All I can say is that I am grateful I was there....

When Sabine Bellevue from “Sabine's Hallway Natural hair Salon” told me what she was going to do for New Year's Eve, I was immediately super excited. The lady marathon runner...

It's almost ingenious how our country figured out a way to make whites think that they aren't immigrants. Lol. — Cedric Brown (@CedBreeze) November 10, 2016 When we talk about...

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