Author: Carma Henry

     Scores of residents, some from as far as Alabama and Georgia, converged on Florida A&M University’s Bragg Memorial Stadium for the first weekend of walk-up COVID-19 testing.

     And even when more and more reports of deaths from the virus came piling up, I still did not take it seriously enough. Then one day, mom said she was not feeling good, and that was the start of it all. In my head, I thought that’s just mom being mom. She sometimes doesn’t feel well. Then when dad got sick, mom stayed in her room, and dad stayed in the basement. I, of course, thought this was unnecessary.

     Amid butchered bodies and scattered wreckage, surviving villagers found one of the attackers’ mobile phones. The phone was not password-protected. Among the 26 phone numbers saved to the phone were direct mobile phone numbers for Nigeria’s army and police officers—the very people who should be hunting terrorists.

      An acquaintance in the entertainment industry once explained to me why a project we were working on was stalled.  He said we were getting “The Long No.”

     My Ph.D. dissertation was on attitudes and perceptions towards forgiveness. I was motivated by a desire to increase the peace in the world in light of every human’s inevitable mistakes.

     Some of us in the frontlines of health care have been trying to convince CDC to declare racism as a threat to public health. We think our proofs are strong.

Save Lives Now; Don’t Wait to Kill

Moral injury and the pandemic of violence

Troy Sneed, a Grammy-nominated gospel singer and record label founder, has died of complications from Covid-19, his publicist Bill Carpenter confirmed to CNN.  Sneed was 52.

     In normal times, funeral homes are not the source of front-page news stories. They are the places we see advertised in the middle pages of our newspapers. They enter our thoughts only inour moments of deepest pain – at the loss of loved ones. It is at these moments that they occupy our foremost thoughts: when we seek their guidance and expertise in honoring and laying to rest departed loved ones. But these are not normal times. The Funeral Home has entered the realm of popular news.