Growing up in our home, the belt represented more than discipline. It represented direction. It represented correction. It represented accountability. It represented love wrapped in responsibility. My father never used it to destroy us; he used it to keep us from destroying ourselves.
Author: Carma Henry
Carma Henry
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As deaths from suicide, overdoses, and alcohol abuse rise among Black Americans, experts warn that cultural expectations around masculinity, mistrust of mental health systems, and a shortage of Black providers are preventing many men from getting help before it is too late.
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Father’s Day is a special time to recognize the fathers, grandfathers, mentors, and father figures who have helped guide us through life. A good father teaches lessons that go far beyond words. He teaches responsibility, respect, hard work, and how to face life’s challenges with courage.
We are launching the Know Thyself Grassroots Movement not as a program, but as a reckoning. A spiritual awakening. A cultural uprising. A return to the power buried beneath generations of distortion. From the sacred walls of the Luxor Temple in ancient Kemet (Egypt) comes the eternal command: “Man, know thyself, and you will know the gods.” This was not poetry, it was instruction. Among ancient Nile Valley people, to know oneself was to unlock the divine force within. And somewhere along the journey of African history… we were taught to forget.
A nuclear reactor produces power only because its most dangerous forces are never allowed to run wild. Control rods slow the chain reaction. Cooling systems remove heat. Containment structures help trap radioactive material. Backup systems stand ready if one safeguard fails. The reactor is not safe because its fuel is harmless. It is safe because danger is separated, cooled, restrained, and monitored.
Most people assume this only happens to someone else. Right now, it could be happening to you. Presently, some Miami-Dade voters may be on a list of individuals whose eligibility to vote is being reviewed under Florida law. If those voters fail to respond by June 15, the Supervisor of Elections may determine they are ineligible and remove their names from the Florida Voter Registration System.
Hit’em where it hurts
I watched my parents go to the polls to vote in the early 1960s. They had to recite the preamble to the constitution while ignorant and illiterate white people waltzed right in. Racists poll workers had jars of jelly beans. Black voters had to guess how many. Then the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965.