Author: Carma Henry

     And yet, in the midst of so much bleakness, Judge Frank Caprio offered us a different vision of justice. Caprio, who passed away this week at 88, never sat on the Supreme Court, never wielded national power. He presided over traffic violations in Providence, Rhode Island, cases that most of us would consider routine, even banal.

     That was then; this is now. Trump has replaced the enduring friendship with a 25-percent tariff on Indian goods, and an additional 25-percent penalty tariff to protest India’s purchases of Russian oil. The US trade deficit with India was also mentioned as grounds for divorce.

    Some years ago, long before the advent of ChatGPT, a Vietnamese spiritual teacher, poet, and activist named Thich Nhat Hanh described how he addressed these questions when he composed. In the mid-1970’s, he helped a committee for orphans in Vietnam by translating applications from Vietnamese to French. The committee was sending the applications to France, seeking donors who could help the children who were victims of the war there.

     I want to address the global prezmo – my word for “present moment” – but, oh God, my knee gave out the other day. I fell on the floor. I survived. I’m OK. Things happen. But I’m still in the process of trying to empty and sell my house of 40 years . . . and move out of Chicago. All this is so much bigger than I am.

      Patrick Henry was the American Spartacus, his “give me liberty or give me death speech,” rejecting perpetual slavery under his own government, the English Empire, ignited resistance in the hearts and minds of Americans. Henry later turned down the offer to be a representative writing the Constitution of the United States saying, “I smell a rat.”

      The wicked Commander in Chief of the United States has ordered his Republican parrots in Congress to repeat his calls for Republican governors and state legislators to gerrymander, or redraw, state and federal political districts.

        In recognition of her years of public service, leadership, and commitment to the community, the City of Miramar is renaming its Multi-Service Complex in honor of Broward County Commissioner Alexandra P. Davis. The dedication ceremony will take place on Thursday, August 28, 2025, at 10 a.m., officially designating the facility as the Alexandra P. Davis Multi-Service Complex.

       The U.S. Department of State has revoked more than 6,000 international student visas, a move raising alarm among immigrant and student communities already grappling with heightened scrutiny and shrinking opportunities for higher education in the United States.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Transatlantic Slave Trade is not just Black history—it is American history, and Black Americans lived it.

      The Wildcats recently held a scrimmage at Daytona Stadium on Aug. 16 in preparation for the upcoming season while summer camp neared an end.