Author: Carma Henry

Hip Rock Star Advertising, a trailblazing, award-winning advertising, marketing, and communications agency that focuses exclusively on building today’s socially conscious brands, recently received multiple awards from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA).

     Many parents struggle with how to start a productive dialog with their children. Just Like My Dad helps to create this dialog and encourage children to feel comfortable about talking to their parents. The novel also enlightens parents on the signs to look for when their children begin to demonstrate signs of becoming detached from the family.

As a Black woman and mother, a population that suffers disproportionately in terms of health disparities especially relating to heart disease and the maternal mortality rate, Tiara is working to use her voice to shine a light on her condition which often goes undetected.

AMBROSE – Not Pictured Funeral services for the late Samuel Ambrose – 79. BROWN Funeral services for the late Roydel Brown – 70were held May 8th…

AUSTIN   Funeral services for the late Merlyn Burzelia Austin – 70 were held May 6th at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel. BENNETT    Funeral services for the…

If you dance to the music, don’t you know You’ve got to pay to the piper

     The three officers responsible for the murder of Breonna Taylor are not the first to walk free after killing an unarmed Black person, and unfortunately, especially if things continue as they are, they will not be the last. Things continuing as they are, includes the decision to only charge one Louisville police officer for the destruction of property, which sends the message that Black lives do not matter to law enforcement agencies.

     Grassroots efforts like the We Count Oregon campaign helped connect with hard-to-count communities across the state. Hard-to-count the state. Hard-to-count populations include Black and other people of color, people in rural communities, low-income communities, and immigrants. Organizers across Oregon and other states shifted during the pandemic in outreach to traditionally overlooked communities to ensure a more accurate count. 

     The Minnesota statute notes that second-degree manslaughter, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison or possibly a $20,000 fine, applies when a person causes someone’s death by culpable negligence and creates an unreasonable risk and consciously takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm.

The clock is ticking for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as the panel prepares to render a decision on the fate of Bill Cosby.