Author: Carma Henry

   I watched my parents go to the polls to vote in the early 1960s.  They had to recite the preamble to the constitution while ignorant and illiterate white people waltzed right in.   Racists poll workers had jars of jelly beans.   Black voters had to guess how many.  Then the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965. 

       America appears trapped in two dangerous wars—one against Iran and another, critics warn, against its own democracy. History should have taught America the enormous price of presidents pursuing wars without clearly achievable political objectives. Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq demonstrated that overwhelming military power does not guarantee political victory. HOW MANY DISASTROUS WARS MUST AMERICA FIGHT BEFORE ITS LEADERS LEARN THAT MILITARY POWER CANNOT SOLVE EVERY INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT?

  As someone who grew up and attended lower school in South Florida, I was privy to the difficulties public schools in my region faced. The reality was that there were far too many young students crammed into a classroom alongside a single teacher to fulfill all their needs. It was easy to lose motivation or even attempt to stand out from the masses.

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Nunnie on the Sideline

       More than half a century ago, The Temptations put those words to music. It was 1970, but turn on the television, scroll through your phone, read the newspaper, or simply listen to the conversations around the kitchen table today, and you might wonder whether they were singing about 2026.

       A 29-year-old Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree behind a vacant home in Jackson, Mississippi, has been identified as Tasia Fortune as authorities continue investigating how she died.

Even before Haitian immigrants in Ohio officially lost their Temporary Protected Status, the Department of Homeland Security required dozens of them to report to immigration appointments and accept ankle monitors, according to their attorneys and local advocates.

       A Georgia woman has filed a lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente, alleging a pathology mix-up led to a false cancer diagnosis and an unnecessary hysterectomy.

     Like many of you, I went to an HBCU (Historically Black College and University) back in the day. Those were some unforgettable times in my life. I could not have scripted my experience any better than how it played out. Humbly, I say that it was a real-life dream.