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Stop Looking for Perfection in your Leaders
There’s a video clip making the rounds in Trinidad and Tobago of a Government Minister, ranting. He wasn’t venting. He was just vomiting out everything he actually thought about specific people and named races. It was difficult to listen to but after I was literally shaking my head, as if I didn’t want the words…
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The Rise, Stumble, and Possible Return of Uncle Nearest Whiskey
There are brands — and then there are movements. Uncle Nearest whiskey is both. Born in 2016, it carried the name of Nathan “Nearest” Green, the enslaved Black distiller who taught Jack Daniel the craft of Tennessee whiskey. For more than a century, Green’s role was erased from whiskey history. Then came Fawn Weaver, a…

