If we believe that the arts are meant to look ahead, open doors, then how is this huge issue of our time, absent from the arts?
Jamaican MP Mike Henry told the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper that he and other colleagues plan to turn their backs on the Prime Minister during his visit, should the issue of reparations be absent from his political agenda.
The President of the Ghana Football Association GFAA) has issued a strong defence of absent midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng.
The issue of leadership was noticeably absent from the secretary of state's pronouncements.
They even agreed on what not to bring up, so the crucial national security issue of narcotics was largely absent.
On the other hand, to exclude other explanations is to insult the poor people who didn't riot (ie, most of them).One place the moral and socioeconomic rationales intersect is in the issue of broken families and absent parents, problems that seem to be both causes and effects of deprivation, and that disproportionately affect African-Caribbean people.
He wanted to focus on the problem of absent fathers – an issue that affects many young people in his community.
The former Speaker has emerged in the lead through his performances in the debates, demonstrating a knowledge of issues absent from some other candidates.
It was striking how the issue of the mainland itself was absent.
But what really made the clash so memorable was how absent the issue of Latino identity has been among not only the Republican field but between the two Cuban-American senators themselves.
