Author: Carma Henry

    This is a fragment of a poem (“Vigil”) I wrote 25 years ago, in response to the “vigil” some gun-rights advocates held in front of a school in Columbine, Colorado, while Bill and Hillary Clinton were in the gym meeting with students, in the wake of the terrible shooting at the local high school. The men held up bright yellow signs reading “Gun Control Kills Kids” and “We Will Never Give Up Our Guns.”

       For a split second, I felt sorry for Stephen A. Smith. But then the outspoken ESPN journalist and political commentator provided a lesson about allyship and representation that caused the solitary tear I could have shed to roll back up into my eye socket.

       As global crises descend around him, Donald Trump seems increasingly inca-pable of a rational response. He rants and rails, threatens and indulges in delusions—and then retreats to one or the other of his vanity projects. This is not a president in control of himself or his position. And it’s costly. Here are the latest examples.

    After the August 10 earthquake in Colombia, rescuers heard a man calling from beneath a collapsed building. He was alive, he said, and he was with a baby. The infant and her mother were eventually rescued.

    The major safeguard against mass starvation around the globe is the World Food Program (WFP), which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 for its vital humanitarian work. With hundreds of millions of people in jeopardy thanks to poverty, famines, violent conflict, and extreme weather, this UN agency distributes massive quantities of food aid―last year alone reaching more than 100 million people facing acute hunger―thereby saving millions of lives.

    South Korean’s President Lee Jae Myung used the occasion of the country’s Liberation Day, which marks the end of Japan’s colonial rule, to propose to North Korea that the two Koreas officially end the state of war between them that has existed since 1950. In its place, he suggested a “multi-layered security system” that would halt ongoing threats and occasional armed incidents along their border.

       August 26 marks Florida Lineworker Appreciation Day. In rain, heat and other unique conditions, about 1,000 Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) lineworkers help power the everyday lives of families and businesses throughout the Sunshine State.

From soaring over Tuskegee airfields to desegregating South Florida’s waterways, Mrs. Maude Lewis Storr lived a century of unfiltered courage, literary elegance, and quiet defiance.

Awards, conversation and culture come together for a day devoted to women making an impact across South Florida

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