Author: Carma Henry

       On Thursday, February 26, the South Florida Branch of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) co-sponsored a powerful forum at The Circuit on Sistrunk Boulevard in partnership with South Florida Community Partners, Inc. (SFCP), an environmental justice organization serving the region since 1996.

   There are moments in history when a nation must decide whether regime change begins at the ballot box—or at the barrel of a gun.

     By afternoon, familiar responses were already in motion: statements of condolence, crisis teams deployed, reminders that the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7. All of it mattered. None of it was enough.

     Dr. Saeid Golkar, at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, reported Feb. 11, 2025 that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi “reaffirmed Iran’s commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and cited a religious decree, known as a fatwa, by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, which bans weapons of mass destruction as evidence of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.”

     Understanding his deep emotional wounds is not an act of sympathy. It is an act of clarity. Harmful men are not born fully formed. They are made—by families, by culture, and by expectations that teach boys early that vulnerability equals weakness. Trump’s niece, the psychologist Mary L. Trump, has described his childhood as shaped by emotional deprivation and a father who prized winning above empathy. In that home life, where affection was conditional, and tenderness too risky, survival depended on projecting invulnerability at all costs. Trump learned early to practice the art of the no feel.

      In the early afternoon of April 17, 2025, I received what to date has been the worst message ever sent to me. It was my daughter, a senior at Florida State University, texting that she was running from campus because there was an active shooter nearby. My husband and I immediately turned on the news to learn that the police were on the scene and that some students were staying in classrooms or hiding while others were fleeing.

     The Allstate HBCU Legacy Bowl is much more than a football game. It is also a chance for alumni and friends of HBCUs to get together and swap stories about the good ole days. In addition, it is one last chance for the players to be introduced and to hear their names called in front of admiring fans.    

      The Florida House of Representatives on Wednesday passed House Bill 991, a measure that would make significant changes to the state’s election laws, including new citizenship verification requirements and revisions to accepted forms of voter identification.

  Rep. Al Green, a Democrat from Texas, holds a sign that read “Black People Aren’t Apes.” during the State of the Union Address before a Joint Session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Feb. 24.

     Coincident with the moon landings, American manufacturing began to move offshore. Good paying jobs were lost. Swayed by business leaders and economists who argued that the public would benefit from lower prices and that affected workers could be trained for other work, government officials happily approved.