Author: Carma Henry

James C. Boyd Funeral Home Services

McWhite’s Funeral Home

Mizell & Kurtz Funeral Home

  While summer often brings concerns about learning loss, the Community Education Alliance (CEA) is helping students move in the opposite direction. Now in its third year, the CEA Kids Camp is providing nearly 50 elementary and middle school students with a dynamic seven-week summer experience designed to prevent the “summer slide” through high-quality academic instruction, cultural enrichment, mentorship, and meaningful family engagement.

   Our generation is growing up in a world where it’s easy to judge people before getting to know them. Social media can spread negativity faster than kindness, and sometimes it feels like people would rather argue than understand each other. But I believe love is what breaks those walls down. A simple compliment, a kind message, or choosing not to spread rumors can make a bigger difference than we realize. You never know what someone is battling behind closed doors, and your kindness could be exactly what they need.

      For generations, Black Americans were denied equal access to higher education through segregation, discriminatory admissions policies, unequal public school funding and laws that barred many colleges and universities from admitting Black students. Even after legal segregation ended, persistent racial wealth gaps left many Black families with fewer financial resources to pay for college.

 The NAACP is making the largest midterm election investment in its 117-year history, unveiling a $20 million voter mobilization campaign aimed at reaching millions of Black voters before the November elections.

   A  kleptocracy is a system of government in which those holding political power use public office to enrich themselves, their political allies, and wealthy supporters rather than serving the public interest. The word originates from the Greek words klepto (to steal) and kratos (rule or power), meaning “rule by thieves.” Critics argue that when political influence becomes a commodity available primarily to the wealthy, democracy gradually begins to resemble a kleptocracy.

   Thunderous applause echoed through the San Francisco Opera House on June 26th, 1945, as diplomats signed the United Nations Charter. It was hailed as a victory over war itself. Eighty-one years later, the UN has many accomplishments to celebrate. But the Charter’s opening pledge to save “succeeding generations from the scourge of war” remains painfully unfulfilled.

   Reading James Baldwin’s 1964 weighty but buoyant tome, “Nothing Personal,” struck like lightning as he shredded the myths that blind. Buoyant because it is replete with lightning strikes illuminating the coarse world created by myths, or lies; buoyant because it lights the way forward, in a scant 60 pages, to a human world.