Author: Carma Henry

Let’s consider the recent “takeover” of a six-block area in downtown Seattle known as Capitol Hill. The neighborhood was a focal point of the city’s protests and at one point in early June, in the midst of clashes between police and protesters, police abandoned the local precinct. Protesters then declared a small, cordoned-off area to be police-free. Initially known as CHAZ — the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone — it eventually became CHOP, for Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. And the area maintained a certain organized autonomy — complete with patrolling paramedics and sentinels, along with numerous participants with interesting agendas — for several weeks.

Conservatives lose – and lose – and lose 

Hey Congress, Move the Money

     Men’s professional golf must right the past racist wrong of not officially recognizing the grand slam achievement of Tiger Woods. From 2000 to 2001, Tiger simultaneously held all four professional majors, yet the achievement was not recognized as a grand slam.

“Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.”

     “The work ahead of us will not be easy. The COVID-19 pandemic has and will continue to have a disproportionate impact on democratic participation for communities of color who have been harmed most deeply by the health and economic crisis and who will encounter greater barriers to voter participation given the new risks of voting in person on Election Day.”

      Amid all the tangible change happening in America along racial lines, there is one transformation that may not be as immediately visible to the naked eye — the ongoing “browning” of this nation’s citizens. While it has already been reported that white people were edging toward living in a country in which they would not be the majority, new data shows that may happen a lot sooner than expected.

Two entrepreneurs – Lynda M. Dorman, CEO and Carolyn E. Howell, President of Orange Wall Enterprises – have made history as the first Black women to sign a distribution and licensing deal for autonomous screening stations that recognize the initial symptoms of COVID-19. These stations, produced stations, produced by Promobot, a Robotics and AI Technology company, are being installed in high traffic areas such as office buildings, prisons, schools, college campuses, healthcare facilities, places of worship, transportation stations, movie theaters, museums, or anywhere people gather.

     Many residents in DC share the conviction that we must do far more to lend a hand to the thousands of individuals — disproportionately Black men aged 21 to 30 — who return to the District each year after periods of incarceration. But right now, DC is without a single re-entry center that is equipped to provide such support.    

There are so many things America needs to improve on. Without us Black people using our voice, there will never be improvement or change. We have to keep protesting and speaking out. I don’t know about you, but I have had enough of being oppressed and not being treated equally. This injustice needs to stop!