Author: Carma Henry

     It’s important to note that each country’s primary motivation is national security, not concern about climate change or protection of the environment. Trump wants US “energy dominance” to avoid dependence on foreign powers. Directly and indirectly subsidizing the fossil fuel industries has top priority. He’s willing to drill everywhere, most recently opening huge areas of the Tongass and other national forests while at the same time eliminating hundreds of environmental protection regulations.

     Dubbed Alligator Alcatraz, it’s nothing more than a collection of tents on an old airstrip in a swamp. It has already flooded. It cost $450 million. For reference, that’s what it costs to build a skyscraper in New York City. While the State of Florida paid out for it, they plan to get refunded from FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security. In other words: you’re paying for it.

Pamela R. Springer, the Founder and CEO of Global Skincare Products, has been proudly named as the 2025 recipient of the distinguished ASCP Industry Icon Award. ASCP (Associated Skin Care Professionals) is the leading national association supporting licensed estheticians. It is also home to over 35,000 members nationwide and is the only organization offering estheticians comprehensive, industry-specific benefits tailored to every stage of their career.

       Churches and houses of worship can now endorse political candidates to their congregations without losing their tax-exempt status.

       Thais-Williams, a lesbian, opened Jewel’s Catch One in the early 1970s because she saw that Black LGBTQ+ people in L.A. needed a space of their own. She had previously run a mixed club, where gay and straight Blacks and whites partied together. “It was kind of a miracle, really,” she once said.

       On Monday, the WNBA announced it’s adding three new franchises, bringing the league to a record 18 teams. Cleveland will begin play in 2028, Detroit joins in 2029, and Philadelphia will tip off in 2030. This follows the addition of the Golden State Valkyries this season and two previously announced expansion teams set to launch next year in Toronto, Canada, and Portland, Oregon.

       HBCU players, selected by a committee that includes Hall of Fame outfielder Ken Griffey Jr., representatives from MLB, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and team scouts, will get the opportunity to rep their school pride and showcase their talent.

       “The conferences are starting to do new deals with ESPN,” Symonds reflected in his annual chat with HBCU Legends. “We’re no longer so much the ‘second fiddle’ as we started in the beginning of this game, and that started to open up doors where a lot of these classics have now seen what we’re doing.”

Sixteen years ago today, an HBCU legend and NFL great was tragically taken away from the sports world.

  At 21, I believed success was supposed to be instant, that purpose would arrive gift-wrapped at the top of some figurative ladder. Back then, the valley felt like failure, the delay felt like denial, and silence felt like abandonment.