Author: Carma Henry

     Those moments are irreplaceable. Character-building. Life-shaping.  I don’t resent today’s athletes or today’s system. It’s simply different—remarkably different. And while today’s players are benefiting financially in ways we never could, it comes at the cost of something that lasts far longer than any NIL deal.

       Even more damning is what followed. The man who gave Epstein his infamous sweetheart deal in 2008, allowing him to escape real prison time despite overwhelming evidence of child sexual exploitation, was Alex Acosta. Instead of being held accountable for protecting a predator, Acosta was later appointed by Trump to a cabinet position as Secretary of Labor. The same administration that claimed to stand for law and order elevated the official who shielded one of the most prolific abusers in modern history.

     The team posted images of the jersey, created by artist Clancy Riehm. The design, which features iconic black, green, yellow and red colors, was inspired by Harlem Renaissance artist Aaron Douglas, considered the father of African American art, according to the Lightning.

     On Monday, February 9, we lost more than a leader; we lost a compass, a conscience, and a flame that refused to be extinguished. When I received the news that my friend, my teacher, my mentor, and my brother had transitioned at age 66, the silence that followed was deafening. For more than three decades, Salim walked through the halls of Virginia power not with a welcome mat, but with a blowtorch; illuminating uncomfortable truths that others preferred left in shadow. Now we must learn to navigate those halls with only the memory of his light to guide us.

        Edward Marion Augustus Chandler was the second African American to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United States, which he received from the University of Illinois in 1917.

       American families are carrying more debt than at any point in the nation’s history. As debt collection lawsuits climb back to pre-pandemic highs, millions face a little-known but devastating risk: the legal seizure of their entire bank accounts, sometimes overnight.

     The reason for the spotty record of the world organization is that many organs of the United Nations are weak and, therefore, unable to cope adequately with the enormous job that lies before the international organization and the world. The solution is to transform these UN organs by drawing upon Article 109 of the UN Charter, which lays out the method for making changes in the UN system.

     These lyrics should take some of us back when the song, “For the love of money” was a hit record. We can only speculate how this song came to be. Was money flowing freely into the economy during this time?

     I learned to respect Bitcoin not from traders or tech executives. I learned from dissidents and from people who lived through economic collapse. For them, Bitcoin was not about getting rich. It was about staying free.

     That’s why the comparison to Iraq keeps surfacing — not because Venezuela and Iraq are the same country, but because the logic of intervention can look the same no matter where it plays out.