Author: Carma Henry

5 Black Women to Consider For Next Supreme Court Justice

A new program has been launched that is targeting newly-coined African American “mobile-preneurs” who want to work from home or remotely in the lifestyle consulting industry. Amidst the aftermath of the global Coronavirus pandemic, millions of people are in a desperate search to make a living and thrive financially in a market and climate where jobs literally don’t exist anymore. Business owners and entrepreneurs alike have had to evolve and adapt and find new ways of generating income and maintain their current lifestyle or find a new lifestyle.

       As South Florida continues to face the economic and health impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, responding to the 2020 Census is more important now than ever before to secure the resources we need to invest in our communities and address these new challenges. Given the Trump Administration’s efforts to rush this count and threaten its accuracy, time is running out to respond to the Census by the new September 30th deadline!

      Tuesday marks National Voting Registration Day, which falls exactly 42 days away from Election Day. But in order to participate in the democratic process and cast a ballot in what just may be the most consequential election in modern history, you have to first register to vote.

      Let us look at three highly qualified, altruistic people President Joe Biden should appoint to make our lives better. Our present skinflint Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin and I have nothing in common. I care about all people, he does not. 

Supreme Court Nominee Choice?

      The Supreme Court was established by the Judiciary Act in 1789 and signed by President George Washington. It was charged with ensuring the American people with the promise of equal justice under law and to function as the Constitution’s guardian and interpreter. This noble idea was conceived by men with flawed morality. President Washington, who was a slave owner, nominated to the court one chief justice and five associates which were confirmed by the U.S. senate. However, in 1869, the court was set at nine.

Lessie Benningfield Randle, a 105-year old Black woman from Tulsa, Oklahoma, one of two known survivors of the tragic Tulsa massacre that is still alive, has filed a lawsuit demanding reparations. She alleges that the act of racial violence is still haunting the community after almost 100 years.

     Through her cancer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg fought to the end with unwavering faith in our democracy and its ideals, and that is how she will be remembered, Obama expressed in a written statement. “But she also left instructions for how she wanted her legacy to be honored,” the popular former president observed.  

      NewsOne’s The Black Ballot initiative and its ongoing political conversation about the Black experience in America recently turned to the topic of historically Black colleges and universities and the roles HBCUs and their students are playing with “the Black vote” as Election Day rapidly approaches.