Author: Carma Henry

       As Christmas Day approaches, family, friends, and community members are preparing to celebrate a truly remarkable milestone—the 100th birthday of Mary Chrissie Brinson, an extraordinary Woman of God whose life has been marked by faith, service, and unconditional love. On December 25, she will be honored not only for reaching a centennial birthday, but for the legacy she has built through devotion to God and dedication to others.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Black Press of America is being deliberately starved, and unless people act now, it will collapse in full view of the nation it has served for nearly two centuries.

       Kathleen De Jesus was reported missing from Deerfield Beach. She was last seen around 5:15 p.m. on Thursday near the 100 block of Fourth Avenue. At the time, she was wearing a white shirt and black pants.

Sometimes, we get so caught up in chasing what’s next that we forget what got us here. We forget the people who believed in us when we doubted ourselves, the ones who stayed up late helping us study, the mentors who gave us tough love, and the community that kept us grounded when we didn’t have much to stand on. Whether it’s a degree, a promotion, or a little more financial security, those wins can slowly make us forget that success doesn’t mean we’ve “made it”, it means we’ve been entrusted with a little more to give back.

     While the idea of getting “snipped” is painful for some men to even think about, actually having a vasectomy may lead to more than just temporary pain.  Findings from a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology show that men who have the surgery have an increased risk for fatal prostate cancer.

     On Saturday, Dec. 13, there’s a classroom shooting at Brown University, in Providence. R.I. Two students are killed, nine others wounded. A day later, in Sydney, Australia – in the midst of a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach – two gunmen fire into the crowd of celebrants. Fifteen people are killed. The shock is global. The grief and anger flow like blood.

    In 1939, Billie Holiday gave voice to a nation’s darkest truths with Strange Fruit, her haunting lament for the bodies of Black men and women hanging from trees in the Southern states. The year before, bluesman Lead Belly had recorded Scottsboro Boys, a ballad chronicling the prosecution of nine Black teenagers falsely accused of rape. At the end of his song, he offered a warning — “stay woke”— a phrase that would enter the Black lexicon as a call to vigilance, a reminder to remain alert to the dangers of racism, especially in the South.

     The metaphor “grievant murderers kill to make the nation grieve interprets contemporary mass violence not as a random outburst of pathology, but as a calculated act of psychological warfare. In 2025, this phenomenon evolved into a strategic attempt to force a collective, public trauma upon a society that the perpetrator believes has unjustly marginalized him.

When will the lights truly go off and you Dump Trump?

     There is a dangerous misinformation campaign about Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The false narrative that HBCUs are somehow fragile, dependent on foreign students, or lesser-tier institutions was most recently pushed when Donald Trump suggested HBCUs would go out of business without students from China.