Author: Carma Henry

      “I was raised by grandma in Delray Beach, Florida. We would go in the summertime, but it wouldn’t be for pleasure. We had to go to work. What kind of work was it? Picking beans. You loaded on the truck to go to the bean farm. One day I was on my knees with the hamper used to put beans in. When I moved the hamper, I saw this huge Coach Whip snake so I took off running. So when competing today, I think about running from that snake.”  — Jo Ann Sampson

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Trump administration is dismantling the very programs created to correct generations of systemic racism and economic exclusion—programs that helped level the playing field for Black, Latino, Indigenous, and women entrepreneurs.

 BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In a moving display of remembrance and restoration, Dillard University, the City of New Orleans, and University Medical Center held a traditional jazz funeral and memorial service to honor the 13 men, four women, and two unidentified individuals whose remains were stolen in the 1870s by a local physician and sent overseas.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — By their mid-40s, the students’ cognitive outcomes were significantly different, with Black women continuing to gain in IQ, reading, and math skills while Black males wound up scoring the same as those in the control group

Women In Distress of Broward County, Inc. (WID) celebrated a milestone moment at its 50th Anniversary Starfish Gala on May 3 at Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort, raising more than $500,000, a record-breaking amount, to support domestic violence survivors and their families.

“Trump is demonstrating the height of his racism as he works to remove 500,000 legal immigrants from this country.”

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Her refusal, a rare and powerful act of public accountability, represents perhaps the most pointed backlash yet from within the convicted Jan. 6 ranks.

       Harvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people as part of a historic legal settlement announced Wednesday by nationally renowned civil rights attorney Ben Crump.

   Most data shows that depression impacts fewer Black Americans than white or Latino people. Depression among Black people is 6.7%, while among white people, it is 8.9% and Native Americans 11.2%, the National Institute of Mental Health reported in October. But that data is influenced by a number of factors:

        The slaughter goes on, usually in the name of war, which reduces human life to, at best, a strategic abstraction. Dead civilians – dead children – are collateral damage, which means they’re nothing at all.