Author: Carma Henry

       Sisters Network® Inc., the nation’s pioneer and leading Black-led national breast cancer survivorship organization, is bringing the 2025 National Black Breast Cancer Summit back to Houston, Texas, October 3–5, 2025.

   President Trump  must realize that Putin’s goal is to gain a military and  economic advantage over America. Allowing Putin to conquer Ukraine would constitute one of the greatest blunders since believing Saddam Hussen had Weapons of Mass Destruction. This blunder led to loss of lives of America’s military service men and women and a disruption of peace in the Middle East.

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       With the hottest months of the year still ahead, extreme heat can add strain on Floridians and their air conditioners (A/C), the single largest driver of home energy use. To help customers find ways to reduce their energy use and maximize savings, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) is sharing the following tips, tools and resources.

     Similar circumstances prevail in Gaza as the Israeli government continues its crimes against humanity in the region. According to the Human Rights Watch World Report 2025, Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived Palestinians of access to humanitarian aid, including food and water essential for survival. The Israeli Defense Force has also wounded and killed thousands of civilians, destroyed vital infrastructure such as homes and hospitals, decimated schools and camps housing displaced families, and left few or no safe spaces for those caught in their crosshairs.     

     And yet, in the midst of so much bleakness, Judge Frank Caprio offered us a different vision of justice. Caprio, who passed away this week at 88, never sat on the Supreme Court, never wielded national power. He presided over traffic violations in Providence, Rhode Island, cases that most of us would consider routine, even banal.

     That was then; this is now. Trump has replaced the enduring friendship with a 25-percent tariff on Indian goods, and an additional 25-percent penalty tariff to protest India’s purchases of Russian oil. The US trade deficit with India was also mentioned as grounds for divorce.

    Some years ago, long before the advent of ChatGPT, a Vietnamese spiritual teacher, poet, and activist named Thich Nhat Hanh described how he addressed these questions when he composed. In the mid-1970’s, he helped a committee for orphans in Vietnam by translating applications from Vietnamese to French. The committee was sending the applications to France, seeking donors who could help the children who were victims of the war there.

     I want to address the global prezmo – my word for “present moment” – but, oh God, my knee gave out the other day. I fell on the floor. I survived. I’m OK. Things happen. But I’m still in the process of trying to empty and sell my house of 40 years . . . and move out of Chicago. All this is so much bigger than I am.

      Patrick Henry was the American Spartacus, his “give me liberty or give me death speech,” rejecting perpetual slavery under his own government, the English Empire, ignited resistance in the hearts and minds of Americans. Henry later turned down the offer to be a representative writing the Constitution of the United States saying, “I smell a rat.”