The sale of the Hornets at a $3 billion valuation marked the second-biggest sale valuation for an NBA franchise in history and marked a return of around 17 times for Jordan’s stake as principal owner.
Month: November 2023
Coming up from the Metro into the Main Hall of Union Station, on my way to a prayer service for the people of Gaza, I paused to look at the Roman legionnaire statues standing guard over the crowds who entered and exited the great neo-Classical building. Appropriate statuary, I thought, for an imperial city—Rome 2000 years ago, Washington today.
Also implicit in the Secretary’s old thinking is that sacred cow of establishment thinking, deterrence. As long as we have more of the latest, fastest, most intelligent and most destructive weapons, we will not need to use them, because that will be sufficient to make our enemy think twice before taking us on. But contemporary asymmetric warfare (think 9-1l-2001, 10-7-2023), let alone the likelihood of either human or A.I. error, effectively undermines deterrence theory.
Thankfulness Buried in the Rubble
A few years ago we spent a week at Auschwitz/Birkenau in contemplation of horrors truly beyond imagination that we felt compelled to imagine nonetheless. We sat in meditation alongside the gas chambers and crematoria, in the grove where the children clung to their mothers awaiting their turn to die, letting the blood in the earth open and break our hearts.
The theater was taken over by dance, live and recorded music and everyone that attended was put under the spell of Beverly Page, and Clare and the Chocolate Nutcracker.
Speaking about myself, The Gantt Report is as serious as a heart attack! Why? It is because Black people in America, in Africa, in South America, in the Caribbean, and in most other parts of the world continue to face serious problems and dangerous consequences.
The highly anticipated Third Annual Pompano Fall Festival will be taking over the city of Pompano Beach, FL during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend on Saturday, November 26, 2023, starting at 2 p.m
The findings paint a stark picture of inequality in the nation’s educational landscape, prompting urgent calls for comprehensive reform.
President Joe Biden, visibly moved, shared his sentiments with reporters as he boarded Air Force One in Norfolk, Virginia, on Sunday night.