Author: Carma Henry

Can We Abolish War, Or Will War Abolish Us?

      Ratepayers beware. Team Trump’s eagerness to enrich his fossil fuel industry cronies with his “drill baby drill” (and export baby export) agenda is going to raise energy costs for American households.

     This strikes me as the stupidest question a human being could ask – and, just possibly, also the last. Our enemy of the moment is loosing hell on us (if warning signals are accurate), so let’s do the same back at them. If we kill more of them than they kill of us, we win! Yes, human life – all life – will likely be destroyed in a nuclear war, but that’s just the way things work. That’s not our concern.

     I have lived in Washington DC for years and still can’t get enough of it. On sunny Saturday morning walks, my pace is casual, but the insights are profound. DC is a living lesson about what George Washington described as “the last great experiment for promoting human happiness.” The Inauguration brings new people to Washington DC and I hope they will love and learn from the city as much as I do.

     “Is it getting better? Or do you feel the same?” Bono asks in the U2 song One. It can be difficult to make sense of the world. Professor Max Roser, who runs the website Our World In Data and said “The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better…It is wrong to think these three statements contradict each other.”

       The IRS has announced Jan. 27 as the official start date of the 2025 tax season and expects more than 140 million tax returns to be filed by the April 15 tax deadline.

       Gantt studied Journalism and Philosophy at Georgia State University; and after graduation, Gantt received a Graduate Fellowship to study Public Affairs Reporting at the Washington Journalism Center in Washington, D.C. He also has a master’s degree, in Science, from Florida State University. Excerpts from a Gantt Report column were also displayed in the “Freedom of Speech” section of the National Freedom Museum.

       How do you master sin? Is sin for you not sin for me? What are the consequences of sin, or is it just a set of rules that someone down through history decided were moral conditions needed to keep society in check? I mean, is it not true that the culture and customs of a particular nation might make the stomachs of those in a different country turn inside out?

The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel is proud to announce the acquisition of the extraordinary archive of Bayard Rustin, a pivotal figure in the Civil Rights Movement and a lifelong advocate for non-violence, human rights, and equality. This landmark acquisition celebrates Rustin’s legacy as a visionary architect of change.

       Sadly, America’s schools often fail to teach about the Black Episcopal priest, the Reverend Dr. Pauli Murray. Rev. Murray was a lawyer, author, and women’s rights activist, and became the first Black person to earn a Doctor of the Science of Law degree from Yale, as well as the first Black woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest. (Editorial Note: Reverend Murray was gender nonconformist, and out of respect, we will not be using traditional pronouns.)