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Ensuring Our Right to Invest in the Next Generation’s Future

     If a public opinion poll done last month is right, more than half of you won’t know what I mean by the initials “ESG,” and fewer than one in 10 will understand what they mean for financial markets. But listening to some self-interested politicians, many of whom have ties to our dirtiest industries, you’d think ESG was a significant threat to the American way of life. […]

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 Critically Authentic Ignorance

   America’s rise to become the most powerful Nation  on the planet resulted from  unparallel scientific, artistic, social, industrial, political, and educational  achievements. Yet, this blazing trail is fraught with abominable cruelty against Native Americans and Black people. White supremacists using their “Critically Authentic Ignorance,” (CAI), selectively deemed Native Americans and Black people respectively as savages and inferior. […]

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Masters of self-interest

     Where Augusta National Golf Club’s self-interest begins, a neighborhood’s legacy ends. When the deep-pocketed golf club became interested in adding nearby parking spaces, exorbitant amounts of money were used to entice all but one property owner to sell out the adjacent neighborhood. […]

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Nursing Shortage – CFBNA of Orlando Issuing a Call to Action 

      Since its inception in July 1982, Central Florida Black Nurses Association of Orlando (CFBNA) has remained at the forefront advocating for more inclusive and accessible healthcare for minority residents and promoting the professional growth and development of its members.  The association’s primary focal areas have been Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties.  Some of its activities have included teaching health education classes, participating in local health fairs, educating community health workers, mentoring nursing students, offering continuing education hours, conducting a mini nurse academy, and awarding nursing scholarships. […]

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Indictment or Ham sandwich

   An indictment is a legal process created  as a part of the judicial system to protect and enforce the rule of law. It allows issuing a formal accusation specifying that a person committed a crime.  It’s meticulously assembled with credible evidence, saturated with convincible/digestible facts, and collaborated by credible witnesses. […]