Author: Carma Henry

   There’s something powerful about being anchored. Not just physically, but spiritually, mentally, and emotionally. It’s what has kept our people grounded through generations, when the world shifted, when the winds blew, when the storms of life seemed too heavy to bear. Whether you picture a small ship fighting to stay steady in deep waters, or a palm tree bending but not breaking beneath fierce winds, the message remains timeless: when your roots run deep, you may bend, but you will not break.

This holiday season, a Tallahassee son honors his late father’s legacy with a heartwarming Lifetime Holiday Movie. The film “Deck the Hallways” is a story of family, tradition, and hope shaped by the lessons of a lifetime. Along with encore airings on Lifetime through the holiday season, it is available to stream on-demand, on the Lifetime app & the Lifetime website: https://play.mylifetime.com/movies/deck-the-hallways.

     Right now, Black men make up only about 4.6 percent of all college students in Ameri­ca. In a nation of 19 million students, we’re barely visible. And even at our celebrated HBCUs—institutions built by us and for us—the picture isn’t brighter. Black male enrollment at HBCUs has dropped roughly 25 percent since 2010. That’s not just a dip. That’s a full-blown crisis.

   In other words, Engels’ concept of social murders is alive and well—not through factory smog, but through stagnant wages, lack of affordable housing, gutted regulatory protections, denial of healthcare, indiscriminate tariffs, and the intentional suppression of voting rights. These avoidable tragedies, including deaths, are the foreseeable outcomes of systemic social, political, and economic oppression. If the government and capitalist policies are not addressed,   the consequences are  as lethal as any direct act of violence.

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     Now that the government shutdown has temporarily ended, Democrats can take stock of the 2025 election returns and assess what the results mean for the 2026 midterms. In a year when national political narratives were dominated by noise, it was the South—not Washington, not the coasts—that delivered the clearest lessons for Democrats. The South was the star of the 2025 elections and Democrats should invest meaningful resources to further position southern states. 

     America, this is not a dream. The economy has nosedived. We are on the floor below the basement. Buying has become trying. Selling is at a standstill.

     The Trump administration has issued a National Security Strategy (NSS) document that fundamentally transforms US relations with Europe. Traditional closeness is out; open hostility to liberal governments and alignment with far-right parties are in. Europe, says the document, is facing the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure” because of immigration and climate change policies.

     Local officials have raised concerns about dangerously elevated nitrate levels in the community’s drinking water following the siting of a nearby Amazon data center. The investigation reports that the facility’s massive water consumption—up to five million gallons per day—may have accelerated nitrogen migration into the aquifer faster than natural filtration can occur. Amazon strongly denies any connection between its operations and these health problems.