Author: Carma Henry

      What Mr. Trump does not understand about his juvenile social messaging spewing of taunts followed by ordering US nuclear submarines closer to Russia (Russia may only have 3-4 minutes to decide if US subs have attacked)—is his ignorance of how Russia thinks. He should read President Reagan’s memoir, in which he wrote:

      As you read the title, anyone with a sharp eye for spelling or a love of language is probably scratching their head and asking, “What the devil is ‘Orteganization’?” No need to Google it or dust off your old Webster’s, if you still have one. It’s a term I coined to describe the creeping autocratic tint the United States seems to be adopting, one day, one law, one norm at a time, echoing the playbook of Nicaraguan strongman Daniel Ortega.

     As Donald Trump tries to dodge accountability again—this time for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein—let’s not forget what’s really going on: powerful men shielding one another from the consequences of their predatory, often criminal, behavior.

     The indications, then and since, that the development of nuclear weapons did not bode well for human survival, were clear enough. The two small atomic bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed between 110,000 and 210,000 people and wounded many others, almost all of them civilians. In subsequent years, hundreds of thousands more people around the world lost their lives thanks to the radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons testing, while substantial numbers also died from the mining of uranium for the building of nuclear weapons.

    Many scholars and progressives are reluctant to call Israel’s actions in Gaza genocide. They will agree that Israel’s behavior is abominable and atrocious but nevertheless falls below the threshold of a genocide. Their reasoning may step from partiality toward Israel no matter what it does, from the belief that Hamas’ brutal October 2023 attack must also count as genocide, or from a conception of genocide that must match the numbers of dead in the Holocaust gas chambers. But while the 1948 Geneva Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide resulted directly from the Holocaust, genocide in international law is defined by several other acts besides the extinction of an entire population. Here is how Article II of the Convention defines “genocide”:

 BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The childcare field, with low teacher pay and high stress, has struggled with burnout and teacher shortages, especially since the pandemic. The lack of a reliable, centralized pipeline of substitute teachers makes it harder to keep classrooms open and take care of teachers, said JC Elrod, director of The Learning Tree.

       Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) and the broader HBCU community are mourning the loss of Quentin Derrick Glass, a former WSSU football player, scholar, and member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. He passed away at the age of 20. No cause of death has been reported at this time.

       Colorado coach Deion Sanders disclosed Monday that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of bladder cancer but after surgery his oncologist has considered him cured, so he plans to coach this season.

  The John Madden Foundation will “provide vital support for HBCU students, reinforcing both organizations’ shared commitment to education and opportunity,” according to a press release. 

    Legal woes mount over presidential selection process