Author: Carma Henry

      The Body Shop U.S. is leading a bold initiative to ramp up youth voter participation ahead of the midterm elections. On Friday, the company announced the launch of their Be Seen Be Heard initiative, a digital campaign that will provide young voters with resources about the election in November.

It’s expected that Biden will sign the bill early next week, keeping alive an impressive string of legislative victories Democrats hope will translate into big midterm wins.

A group of 27 Palm Beach State College students, including some who aspire to be engineers, physicians, and human services professionals, honed their leadership skills in an inaugural program launched at the Boca Raton campus with a $42,000 gift from the Virginia and Harvey Kimmel Family Foundation.

     Florida A&M University Board of Trustees on Thursday approved a proposal for the administration to begin negotiations to acquire property near campus to increase student housing options.

      After a recent raid on Mar-a-Lago conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigations to retrieve top secret and other documents that were taken from the government after Trump was booted out of office, Republicans quickly lined up to lie about the FBI visit to the beautifully landscaped Mar-a-Lago secret gardens.

     The week of 8-13-2022 was extremely difficult for Ex-President Donald Trump, and many Americans think it was unconstitutional to search a president’s home. According to MSNBC, 41% of Americans believe that the Attorney General Merrick Garland has overstepped his authority and power.

     The sad truth of the origin of slavery in the US dates back to 1539 in Florida. This was decades before the common denotation of 1619 as the beginning of slavery in the US colonies. In 1539, slavery arrived in present-day Florida when the slave trader, Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto, attempted to establish a permanent settlement here. His mission was to claim more territory for Spain. The African slaves were brought here as mining and agricultural laborers.

     As statues of widely recognized racists such as Christopher Columbus were brought down from their pedestals, so too was the artwork venerating lesser-known racists such as the surgeon J. Marion Sims, known as the “father of modern gynecology.” He advanced his medical knowledge by performing surgery on enslaved women without the benefit of anesthesia. In 2018, his statue was removed from New York’s Central Park.

Formula Shortage Highlights Blackness As The Casualty Of Capitalism

     I encourage people of faith to take counsel from 1 Timothy 2:1-4. “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people— for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.”