Health
Medicaid Managed Care Organizations Face Scrutiny Over Prior Authorization Denials
Despite the high number of denials, many state Medicaid agencies reported that they did not routinely review the appropriateness of MCO denials. […]
Articles by Carma Henry
National News
B.B. King Museum and Interpretative Center hosts Mississippi Delta Civil Rights Heritage Tourism Summit
A day long civil rights summit convened September 27, 2023, at the B.B. King Museum and Interpretative Center, 400 2nd Street, Indianola, MS to possibly provide some answers to the aforementioned question and enlighten the residents of the Delta that they hold the stories that are now being monetized and marketed to the world. Stories that have been suppressed for generations because of fear and retaliation by the white minority that to this day keeps a strangle hold on the wealth that was built on slave labor. […]
National News
Electrocution, Jailing Political Enemies, and Indictments: The Rantings of a Madman, President, or Both?
However, the shocking revelation came when Bankman-Fried explored the possibility of paying Trump himself not to run, with sources suggesting Trump’s price tag for withdrawal was a staggering $5 billion. […]
Local News
Calling all South Floridians: Create Christmas in October to Honor Military Heroes
Every fall for the past 10 years, caring South Floridians have teamed up with the American Red Cross to create a little holiday cheer for our troops overseas and local veterans in hospitals and nursing homes. The organization’s Holiday for Heroes project invites your community to write messages of thanks and donate snacks, playing cards and other small items for holiday care packages — which are delivered in colorful stockings hand-sewn by Red Cross volunteers. […]
Local News
60th Anniversary
An evening of profound significance unfolded in Fort Lauderdale as New Era Lodge No. 69, in conjunction with esteemed community partners, came together to mark the 60th anniversary of the tragic 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing. Held at the Sunshine Cathedral, this event served as a poignant tribute to the lives lost and a reaffirmation of the enduring legacy of the Civil Rights Movement. […]
Business
Maryland’s Adult-Use Cannabis Sales Rake in Millions in First Weekend of Legal Recreational Use
Over the course of the entire weekend, Maryland dispensaries earned $10.4 million for adult-use and medical sales, compared to $3.9 million in 2022 when only medical use was permitted. From July 1 to July 7, Maryland dispensaries grossed $20.9 million in medical and adult-use cannabis sales, according to an MCA report. […]
National News
“Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics,”
And why should you? If it’s not right, you make it right. If it can be better, well, then get at it. You find the solution or you go on to the next thing because good enough is never good enough. As in the new book “Bayard Rustin,” essays edited by Michael G. Long, there’s always work to do and good trouble. […]
Local News
First US Black Senator
The honorable Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first Black man elected to the US Senate in 1870. He was elected by the great state of Mississippi to fill the seat held by Jefferson Davis. Senator Davis vacated the seat when the south seceded from the Union to start the civil war in 1861. It was a weird twist of fate that a Black man after the war would take the seat held by the former President of the Confederacy. […]
Opinions
Democrats’ Strategic Offensive Election Plan
Pollsters, behaving as political forecasters, are predicting that the Republican Party’s presidential nominee for the 2024 presidential election, will present turbulent adversarial challenges for President Joe Biden, who’s slated to be the democrats’ incumbent presidential nominee. Surely, no one should think that democrats are sitting on their laurels and crying woe is us. No! Democrats are launching a strategic offensive election plan, which includes registering tens of millions of voters with incorruptible integrity. […]
Opinions
Killing US Softly
Killing US Softly […]