Author: Carma Henry

       The three-year agreement establishes a pathway

       As the nation reflects on the 2026 midterm elections, one message is becoming increasingly clear: Black women are no longer waiting for history to make room for them. They are stepping forward to write the next chapter themselves.

   Not the best way to tickle your fancy, but do you know that migraines affect about two in five people worldwide? Futhermore, there is something even more unfortunate than that. It is the tendency to mistake a debilitating migraine for a regular come-and-go headache.

Nonprofit Hospitals Owe Black Families More than Medical Debt

   On October 22, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research launched a forum focused on AI, peace, and security. The forum brings together governments, researchers, industry, and civil society to pursue practical safeguards. A few days earlier, the Government Accountability Office reported shortcomings in how the Pentagon coordinates responsible AI.

Helping African American Children To Be Prideful And Purposeful During These Times.

Dispatch from the White ICE (formerly the White House)

     That should have sparked an extraordinary debate in Columbus. A survey of Ohio lawmakers found majority support for repeal among respondents. Yet Speaker Matt Huffman remains opposed, and the House bill has not reached a floor vote.

    I was listening to an interview of the author of the article “Choose Your Overlord” (Josh Tyrangiel) in the Atlantic about the Bezos versus Musk efforts to take over the colonization of space from national governments. I found the “Choose Your Overlord” title compelling. Decades ago, in law school, I submitted a proposed Independent Study project on the “Industrialization and Colonization of Space,” to a panel of three law school professors. This was in 1978.

       Even so, over the course of human history, this reliance upon national military might to defend national security has produced disaster after disaster. Although almost every country has armed itself for national defense, even those with immense military might have ended up fighting recurring wars to defend what they regard as their national security. Just look at the history of the “great powers” of recent centuries―the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan―and consider how frequently they have waged war, sometimes emerging as the victors and other times as the vanquished.