Expressing gratitude during Thanksgiving can be meaningful. The younger generation can engage in conversations with their elders on how they celebrated the holidays with their families as a child. Most of all, use this opportunity to engage in thought-provoking dialogue with family members.
Author: Carma Henry
Carma Henry
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America’s criminal justice system defends and protects white people who commits crimes of murder against Black people. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R -FL) labeled Rittenhouse as a hero for murdering two white men who were amongst the crowd of Black people protesting in-justices.
Listen to Black women, they say. Support Black women, they tweet. The praise of Black women in recent years is evident in words, but public statements and hashtags must translate into action. And that action should include efforts to elect Black women.
This is a matter of survival. People of color and other marginalized communities must stop denying the true nature of the culture in which we live, and how little our self-proclaimed leaders do to change this culture. And now the question is will we survive or not?
“THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED”
Thanksgiving, a complex holiday including falsehoods and fabrication.
New research from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), finds that consumers residing in majority minority neighborhoods that are either Black or Latino were more than twice as likely to have disputes appear on their credit reports compared to consumers residing in majority white areas. This finding held true in every credit category reviewed – auto loans, student loans, credit cards, and retail cards between January 2012 and December 2019.
Stitt’s decision came just hours before Jones faced at 4 p.m. execution. Jones has sat on death row for more than 20 years after a jury convicted him of the 1999 murder of an Oklahoma City businessman.
OneUnited Bank, the largest Black owned bank in America, is sponsoring Le Art Noir on December 2, 2021 and will purchase the first From Paris with Love non-fungible token (NFT) created by internationally acclaimed artist Addonis Parker, which pays tribute to renowned entertainer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker. The From Paris With Love NFT collection will premiere at the Le Art Noir event during Miami’s Art Basel week.
On Thursday (November 18), Tennessee’s Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich stated that her office would no longer pursue a death sentence against death row prisoner Pervis Payne (pictured left).