Author: Carma Henry

     With Black health in alarming disparities, Black folks are waiting, and taking their time, and many may decide not to take the vaccine at all. Many people and many Blacks believe this is a personal choice, and no one should be pressured to take the vaccine.

     Voters showed the strength of our democracy by showing up in record numbers to cast ballots to defeat an incumbent president. And voters in Georgia, led by Black voters, made history by electing a progressive Black preacher and Jewish filmmaker to the U.S. Senate.

White Rage

The Good, The Bad and the Profound

     This insurrection was carried out with military precision. These thugs who descended on the Capital with weapons and zip ties, searched for lawmakers, ransacked, and destroyed their offices, urinated, and defecated the building, fought the police with baseball bats, flagpoles, and fire extinguisher. 

“LOCK TRUMP UP!”

Black History can’t be told without the Bible

     Recently, a contentious exchange between lobbyist Barney Bishop and state representative Ramon Alexander expounded on the powder keg that is currently race relations in America.  Bishop, arguing in favor of HB233, a bill that would “prohibit State Board of Education and BOG from shielding students, staff, and faculty from certain speech.”  In short, it would open college campuses in the state university system to anyone who wishes to speak on campus.

The truth is told in Black History 365

In the Fall of 2019, U.S. Bank joined the Department of Treasury’s Mentor/Protégé program to provide vital support to Minority Deposit Institutions (MDIs). Since then, U.S. Bank has been providing developmental assistance and engaged in revenue generating opportunities with First Independence Bank, a Black-owned bank headquartered in Detroit, Michigan.