Author: Carma Henry

     Pound Cake and Puzzles of Color are among the small businesses whose owners are rethinking their plans as major U.S. companies weaken their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The initiatives mostly date from the end President Donald Trump’s first term and entered a new era with the dawn of his second one.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — If there are big cuts to SNAP, “over 285,000 jobs would be at risk” Rep. Bishop pointed out. “Real people are going to be hurt if the $230 billion in SNAP cuts are forced upon the American people,”

       Before the Civil War in 1789, famed Quaker Moses Brown initiated reparations, as documented in Brown University’s  Slavery and Justice report. Callie House, known as the “Matriarch for Reparations,” spearheaded Black demands for restitution. Callie was born in 1861, and basically  grew up free. She raised five kids as a widowed washerwoman living in Nashville. An 1891 pamphlet, Freedmen’s Pension Bill: A Plea for American Freedmen, sparked Callie’s lifelong reparations advocacy. 

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of X (formerly Twitter), is reportedly pouring money into a campaign to unseat Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz.

     Lula “Mae” Reeves, one of the first Black women in Philly to own her own business, created one-of-a-kind and custom hats for celebrities, socialites, professionals and churchgoing women in downtown Philadelphia for over 50 years.

     Bethune-Cookman’s Asianae Nicholson was named to the BOXTOROW Women’s Basketball Division I All-American Team on March 21.

     Shaqir O’Neal is entering the NCAA Transfer Portal after spending one season on the Florida A&M men’s basketball team, On3’s Jamie Shaw reported on Saturday.

     “It’s a good start to conference play but it is still a long way to go. I think each year we transition better into conference understanding what we’re getting into especially traveling,’’ said Bethune-Cookman Head Coach Laura Watten.

     Nearly every Tesla dealership in the United States and the world had 100 to 500 peaceful protestors out front Saturday March 29.  Elon Musk’s electric car company earned rebuke, 6-week sales slumped continued, stock values dropped by half, and large stockholders sold out.  Telsa’s destruction is Elon Musk’s payback for his role in firing hundreds of thousands of federal workers and crippling and destroying federal programs illegally without Congress approval.

  Trailblazers of Broward County, Inc., gathered at the Old Dillard Museum with featured speaker George Gadson, the artist who was commissioned to designed the Sankofa Monument in the  Sistrunk Plaza. He presented the “Making of our Monument” visually with discussion of the process, procedures and development.