Author: Carma Henry

     The off-year elections will more than likely include races for Mayors, Council members, Commissioners and other seats such as political vacancies resulting from deaths, resignations and political expulsions.

       Abortion was NOT always a topic in the national discourse! Republicans turned it into a draw for their evangelical voter base. Reagan paraded the pro-life stance in his presidential bid, despite liberalizing California’s abortion laws as governor! The GOP never lets hypocrisy get in the way, and it’s been downhill for women’s bodily autonomy ever since. 

      For more than 1,500 years, Europeans and their cultural descendants have been defining reality for the people they have subjugated around the world.

      America can now add the Afghanistan War,  including Korean and Vietnam, as another tragedy and costly defeat. The premise for the first two wars was to stop the spread of communism. The war in Afghanistan resulted from our efforts to capture and punish Osama bin Laden. History revealed Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s ill-fated decision to rely on airstrikes and untrained Afghan militias to attack bin Laden’s hideout and to seal his escape routes failed. This failure caused ripple effects which led to 20 years of senseless struggles in Afghanistan.

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     The highly esteemed, civil rights attorney Ben Crump grabbed the mic and spoke at the event about standing up for our youth and the community at large. Hosting in this capacity usually entails a short appearance, a speech, and inviting a few other noteworthy individuals. This was business as usual, until the face of the Positivity Pays foundation Ramon “Absoloot” Robinson entered in stage right “seemingly in the fourth quarter” to present Mr. Crump with something that would have him visibly emotional yet, overly excited and honored to receive. 

“Black professionals hold only 3.2 percent of all executive or senior leadership roles and less than one percent of all Fortune 500 CEO positions,” according to the Society for Human Resources Management.  The first annual Black Professionals Month (BPM), coming this October, is dedicated to improving those and other statistics by providing Black professionals with leadership advancement tools and critical systems of support through virtual workshops, panels, conferences and other programs. 

    Williams received three Primetime Emmy awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for his work in Bessie (2015), The Night Of (2016) and When They See Us (2019). The thespian also won a Screen Actors Guild award for Outstanding Ensemble in Television for his role as Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire and most recently won the Critics’ Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Montrose Freeman in Lovecraft Country.

     The film opens nationwide in November. Not only is Smith being talked about for a shoe-in for Oscar buzz, there is another celebrity that could earn Oscar buzz as well, its Beyonce. It has been reported that Queen Bee wrote the original song for the film. She co-wrote the song “Be Alive” with DIXSON. Although it’s pretty early to talk about Oscar buzz, let’s just hope our people show up for this biopic. “Our” people did not really show up for the “Respect” biopic.

BATEAU Funeral services for the late Marie Gertrude Bateau – 80 were held September 4th at Jubilee of Praise Church with Dr. Jean Gregoire officiating. BROWN…