" Where they burn books, they will ultimately also burn people." -Heinrich Heine, 1920  85 years ago today Nazi Germany commi...

The NFL players taking a knee just got additional support from their fellow athletes across The Pond who play the other football. The Ge...

Watching that Deutsche Welle Afro   Germany documentary and perusing the results of the recent German federal elections made me wonder w...

One of the little known things about me is I took German in high school, and I have a cousin who is German.  Black people have lived in ...

President Obama journeyed to Berlin at the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the leader of the free world, for the Kirchentag...

Like the Cold War and Jim Crow segregation, the Berlin Wall was a part of the world when I was born in 1962.   It was erected in August 1961...

" Where they burn books they will also ultimately burn people.'   Heinrich Heine Today is the 80th anniversary of the day that 20...

If you younglings are wondering why security is a major issue at every Olympic Games and what the moment of silence kerfluffle was abou...

This panel discussion I'm posting was organized by the Heinrich Boll Foundation and took place in Berlin on October 5.  It was discus...

I wrote about it last year, but today is the 50th anniversary of the day that at midnight East Germany began building what they called t...

Dr.Magnus Hirschfeld in 1919 founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexual Research) in Berlin.   It became renowned ...

I've talked about the 'Anti fascist Protection Barrier' as the dearly departed Deutsche Demokratische Republik euphemistically u...