Author: Carma Henry

       Chances are, you have a friend, coworker, or relative who is currently caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s. With over six million Americans living with the disease and diagnoses rising steadily every year, especially among younger individuals, Alzheimer’s is no longer something only associated with advanced age. More and more, families are facing this heartbreaking diagnosis earlier than they ever expected.

       While the music community continues to mourn the untimely death of Outlawz member Young Noble — who was only 47 at the time of his death on July 4 — it’s his cause of death that reveals a scary trend seen amongst Black men. The rapper.

   Too many softies, that’s the problem. Too many people in America are still infected with the mind worms of lefty brain rot. Too many still think it’s good to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, and care for the stranger, the immigrant, because those people might be the son of god in disguise and he may judge you based on how you treat those migrants and refugees. What bunk!

       On the Fourth of July, Donald Trump signed his “megabill.” The law boosts the dying fossil fuel industry with tens of billions of taxpayer dollars. It invites an additional 470 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year by 2035 – that’s the equivalent annual emissions of more than 100 million gas-powered cars. And it aims to stop dead in its tracks the clean energy transition and the green manufacturing jobs boom the Inflation Reduction Act was already starting to create.

     Congressional passage of Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” provides the latest evidence that human greed, despite its primitive nature, remains alive and well.

     When Robert Oppenheimer, the civilian head of the program, informed his boss, the Nobel Prize winning physicist Arthur Compton, about the test’s apocalyptic risk, Compton was appalled. According to Toby Ord in The Precipice (2020), Compton decided, “Unless they came up with a firm and reliable conclusion that our atomic bombs could not explode the air or the sea, those bombs must never be made.” In his memoir Atomic Quest (1956) Compton recalled thinking, “Better to accept the slavery of the Nazis than to run a chance of drawing the final curtain on mankind!”

     I’m still in Appleton, Wisconsin as I write, awaiting my second cataract surgery, right eye, tomorrow. The first one went well. I’m not concerned about number two, at least not in and of itself. But I’ve felt myself plunging into a sense of deeper stress, feeling, with increasing regularity – as I stay here with my loving family – like a shrug of nobody.

      The Ministry of Culture and Community Development in Trinidad and Tobago has joined the national community in mourning the passing of Hansley “Hans” Hanoomansingh — a beloved cultural icon, veteran broadcaster, and former Member of Parliament — who died on Saturday at the age of 83.

(Left to Right) Delvis Rogers, Chapter President; Inductees: Elijah Clark, Jahterious Clarke, Zachasis Aliensy, Jacob Clark, Julian Panza, Kaleb Shanklin, Rahvell Bernardo, Cayden Williams and Anthony…

       Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and United Way Miami proudly celebrated the graduation of the first class from their pilot lineworker pre-apprenticeship program today.