Author: Carma Henry

Anger and forgiveness in our polity

     Two white students posted a photo on Instagram and captioned it “A Ghetto Christmas Carol.” The caption may not have been a big issue were it not that in the photo, the two white students are carrying a 5-year-old Black boy.

     After a marathon session that began on Wednesday with the consideration of two articles of impeachment, The House Judiciary Committee gave its final approval on Friday to impeach President Donald J. Trump. Making Trump one of only three presidents in the nation’s history to share the same fate.

Specifically, Schumer asks for testimony from Mick Mulvaney, John Bolton, Michael Duffey and Robert Blair; Schumer says Dems are open to hearing from additional witnesses with direct knowledge of admin’s decisions related to the delay in security assistant funding to Ukraine and its requests for certain investigations to be announced by the Government of Ukraine, if the president’s counsel or house managers wish to call such witnesses.

     Dr. Kevin Williams is the Chief Medical Officer for Rare Disease at Pfizer where he leads a Medical Affairs organization of approximately 150 medical colleagues around the globe. He pursued medicine after being inspired by his father’s work as a general practitioner in his hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dr. Kevin is passionate about raising awareness and increasing understanding of rare diseases, such as sickle cell disease, in the African American community.

      For what they consider to be abuse of power and obstruction, the Democrats have declared two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, creating a much stronger pathway to a significant full House vote next week.

When one thinks of constipation, blockage comes to mind. Something causes the flow or passage of an item to a point severe obstruction that easily leads to destruction.

       On December 2, 2019, one of the students on my school campus came to school with a gun in his possession. It was the first class of the day and the principal called over the intercom that we were on a ‘Code Red’.

The title of my poem is Emmett Till: I Will Still Sing My Song. When I write poems I just write a bunch of them and whichever one I like the most is the one that I expand on. Here is my poem below:

     A few weeks ago, my eighth grade English class read a book called Old Man and the Sea, written by Ernest Hemingway. The story is about an older man, who hasn’t caught any fish for a couple of months and is starting to become poor.