Valena York Henderson, an African American woman from Atlanta, Georgia, recently turned 105 and celebrated the milestone with family and friends. The gathering honored her life of love, faith, and service across five generations.
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More than 1 million low-income households — most of them working families with children — who depend on the nation’s public housing and Section 8 voucher programs could be at risk of losing their government-subsidized homes under the Trump administration’s proposal to impose a two-year time limit on rental assistance.
For so many in the African American community and across the world, the loss of Malcolm Jamal Warner is one that cuts deep. His passing feels personal, like we’ve lost a brother, a storyteller, a visionary. It’s not just the end of a remarkable life, but the departure of a rare and radiant talent who gave of himself in every role, every note, and every word.
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There’s a saying we’ve all heard, and it goes like this: “All politics are local.” But if that’s true, then we need to take a long, hard look at what’s going on right here at home. While the national headlines scream about the rise of authoritarianism, the erosion of truth, and the brazen glorification of hate, the real question is: What are we doing about it right here, in our own backyards?
One of the nation’s oldest civil rights organizations on Thursday declared a “state of emergency” for antidiscrimination policies, personal freedoms and Black economic advancement in response to President Donald Trump ‘s upending of civil rights precedents and the federal agencies traditionally tasked with enforcing them.
Meet Jeremiah Gauthier, a proud Broward native and senior at Florida A&M University, majoring in computer engineering. This rising Rattler is making big waves at Verizon, where he’s applying his skills to design and maintain the cooling systems that keep the network running smoothly.