Author: Carma Henry

     Keiva Cheney’s life changed overnight when she was unexpectedly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes. According to the Mayo Clinic, the sources and causes of the condition are unknown. For Cheney, it quickly became a way of life.

Authorities say a former North Carolina law enforcement officer planned to kill Black people in a mass shooting at a major New Orleans festival but was arrested at a Florida hotel with a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.

     Predatory lenders target people struggling to meet monthly expenses, who have recently lost their jobs, and who are denied access to a wider range of credit options for illegal reasons, such as discrimination based on a lack of education or older age.

       The U.S. Department of Education finalized a rework of the federal student loan system on Thursday (April 30), in compliance with President Donald Trump’s Working Families Tax Cuts Act, signed into law on July 4, 2025. 

Today marks the third annual APOL1-Mediated Kidney Disease (AMKD) Awareness Day, a day established by the American Kidney Fund (AKF) to encourage others to be “APOL1 Aware” by educating communities about this genetic form of rapidly progressing kidney disease. Support for AMKD Awareness Day is provided by Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated.

     For many Black Americans navigating an especially heavy emotional season, a licensed psychologist says the most transformative step forward may not be found in self help it may be found in each other, a collective weight that keeps growing. Mental Health Awareness Month arrives this May against a backdrop of compounding grief. From ongoing conversations […]

       It does not announce itself gently. It arrives in silence, – heavy, unfamiliar, and absolute. One moment, life feels anchored in presence, in voice, in laughter, in the small, ordinary exchanges that we mistake for permanence. And then, in a single breath, we are ushered into a new existence defined not by what is but by what is no longer there.

      Perseverance isn’t about being perfect—it’s about not giving up, even when things feel frustrating, slow, or unfair. For teens, that can show up in a lot of ways: struggling in a class, trying out for a team and not making it, dealing with personal problems, or just feeling stuck while everyone else seems to be moving ahead.

      Many may remember Coley for being the youngest student to graduate with an Associate of Arts degree from then-Tallahassee Community College

       In this lifetime specifically, I’ve penned this open letter on the cusp of Black Girl Speaks! The show, which is more than a show, but a movement as well, is elemental and transformative for healing. The show is needed more now than when it was first done. The show existed in a world where social media was embryonic at best. It existed before all the subsequent movements for hearing from and holding up women while they moved to bring light on how they survived assaults from men. The show existed when the voiceless were still without voice, and it was created to bring voice in those times.  Now, more than twenty years later, there are questions of if there is still a place and a space for such work. The answer is yes and it is for a myriad of reasons. I want to highlight a few: