Author: Carma Henry

    With tactics reminiscent of the round-ups of Jews, Roma, and gays in Nazi Germany, Immigrant Cruelty Enforcers (ICE) are snatching green card holders, undocumented workers, and longtime residents driving to work or dropping off their children at school bus stops—yanking them from their cars as soon as their children board the bus.

     According to a new 50-state analysis by Schiller Kessler Group, Florida recorded 105 drowning deaths, the highest number of any state. The report found that across all ages, Black Americans drowned at 1.5 times the rate of white Americans.       

     Broward County Administrator Monica Cepero has been elected president of the Florida Association of County Managers (FACM) for the 2026–2027 term.

         Three days after the crown was placed on her head, Justus Kelley’s Miss USA victory remains bigger than a pageant win — it represents a barrier broken three times over.

   A wedding is one of humanity’s most fragile and meaningful moments. It is where families gather, where children run between relatives, where generations come together to celebrate the possibility of a future. It is difficult to imagine a place less connected to war than a home filled with people celebrating a marriage.

       How do we keep our young people involved? That question has stayed with me. Because maybe the problem is bigger than getting young folks to come to a park, put on a family T-shirt, eat some barbecue and pose for a picture.

       From the gutting of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder in 2013 to the racial gerrymandering sanctioned in Louisiana v. Callais earlier this year, to the Court’s latest emergency ruling enabling the current administration’s federal takeover of mail voting, the pattern reveals itself with brutal clarity. Every time Black communities organize, mobilize and build electoral power, the legal architecture shifts to contain it. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson — the first Black woman to sit on the nation’s highest court — has named this pattern from the bench with a moral precision that demands a national reckoning. The question is whether the nation will listen before November.

    “This war is a true investment in your children’s and your grandchildren’s future.” –Donald Trump, as public support for his war of choice fails to materialize.

     Jolly is running on a gun safety platform that includes four tenets: He wants to ban the sale of assault weapons, require universal and comprehensive background checks on gun purchases, explore licensing for firearm ownership, and preserve and expand the “red flag” laws passed in the wake of the 2018 school shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public High School in Parkland.

     A senior Haitian Catholic bishop has appealed directly to US President Donald Trump to reconsider the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians, warning that the crisis-stricken Caribbean nation remains unsafe for deportees.