Author: Carma Henry

Island SPACE Caribbean Museum proudly announces the recipients of its inaugural ICON Awards, to be presented at the museum’s fifth anniversary fundraising gala, Milestones: FIYAH! Fashion. Folklore. Future., on Sunday, October 26, 2025, at the Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa. This year’s honorees are four extraordinary leaders whose lives and legacies embody the brilliance and cultural pride of the Caribbean diaspora. Learn more at islandspacefl.org/fiyah.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Its origin was poisoned by the retreat from Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow, but its meaning grew larger. It became a vow that liberty cannot live where rifles enforce the law of civilians.

       Found in homes, workplaces and schools, scientists are increasingly finding plastics inside our bodies. Microplastics and toxic chemicals have been detected in human blood, feces, lungs, breast milk, placentas, stomachs and even brains — and babies are exposed before they are even born. Nanoplastics are particularly concerning because they are small enough to enter individual cells and tissues, raising red flags about long-term health effects.

   A president bent on consolidating power can disguise a bloodless massacre as efficiency. Loyalists are promoted, independent thinkers pushed aside, while a compliant military command is cultivated to support a coup. Generals are trained to analyze data, detect patterns, and anticipate threats from abroad. If they cannot recognize this pattern emerging from within, they will have turned a blind eye to the peril now stalking the Republic.

The Power in Money and Politics

Hiring the hit men

There are none as blind as those who refuse to see

       Everywhere I go lately, people whisper the same question: are we sliding into another blacklist era? They point out what happened to Stephen Colbert. They point out what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. They point to other entertainers whose shows, jokes, or politics suddenly seemed to cost them work.

Why Democrats Need a Year-Round Voter Engagement Strategy

     To date, unfolding right in front of us, the current culmination of this is Project 2025, spearheaded by far-right Heritage Foundation and others. It is the Trump regime playbook, and was devised by far right political intellectuals, including Christian nationalists, and is the plan to dismantle democracy, sector by sector, smashing guardrails against autocracy one-by-one.