Don Rojas is the Director of Communications for The Institute of the Black World 21st Century. He was a former executive editor of the New York Amsterdam News and the first director of communications of the NAACP. He also served as the general manager of WBAI-Pacifica Radio in New York and later as executive director of Free Speech TV.
Underdevelopment in the Caribbean is a direct legacy of the slave trade, and descendants of enslaved Africans should be compensated accordingly.