Author: Carma Henry

Even Edward Blum, the man behind the Students for Fair Admissions case, admitted the ruling does not apply to scholarships and student programs.

       Integrative healthcare is a patient-centered approach that blends conventional Western medicine with evidence-based complementary therapies. Unlike traditional healthcare, which often focuses on symptom management, integrative care seeks to address the root causes of illness while considering the patient’s physical, metabolic, emotional, and mental well-being.

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The event brought together leaders in healthcare and media, emphasizing the critical need for collaboration in addressing health disparities impacting Black Americans.

       We are in a collective grief process. The old normal passed away. We are not getting it back, at least not anytime soon. And so, the destabilization we are feeling right now is two-fold. First, the destabilization that we feel from the flooding of the zone, which is by design, and part of a playbook we knew was coming. They told us. But what we did not expect was another destabilization—that is, the destabilization that comes with grief.

   Before Trump’s top officials descended on Europe this past week, Donald Trump seemed to have three ideas for ending the Ukraine war: abandon ship, meaning depriving Ukraine of US aid and thereby forcing it to agree to a settlement with Russia; deploy European troops in Ukraine to deter Russia after a peace agreement; and give Ukraine aid in return for “guaranteed” access to its rare earth mineral deposits. Michael Waltz, Trump’s national security adviser, confirmed all these points and reiterated what he said was the Trump administration’s “underlying principle”: that the Europeans “have to own this conflict going forward.”

     The lessons to be learned from the events in Munich in 1938, in which Prime Minister Chamberlain signed off on the Nazi seizure of Czechoslovakia, are of course relevant, but they have also been used to justify all manner of wars and violence that have had little justification. Perhaps even worse, the Munich analogy has been used to justify the refusal to negotiate with adversaries. 

     Earlier this week, President Trump was anointed chairman of the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees—but only after firing all of the Democratic appointees on the board and handpicking their replacements to join the remaining half of the board (all Republican appointees), bucking the decades-long norm of a bipartisan Kennedy Center board. After this new, entirely Republican-appointed slate of trustees voted him in, he posted, “It is a Great Honor to be Chairman of The Kennedy Center, especially with this amazing Board of Trustees.” Then he fired the Kennedy Center’s president and installed someone loyal to him to run the Center.

     His plan is to expand the infamous Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, part of the U.S. naval base in Cuba, which George W, Bush began using as he waged his horrific “war on terror” in the Middle East. He began imprisoning alleged terrorists, often arbitrarily arrested, in a hellhole where they had zero rights. Some are still there, several decades later. Trump’s plan is to expand the detention center to hold 30,000 people, which would be, oh, more than double the size of two unforgettable Nazi concentration camps combined: Dachau and Treblinka.

        Good Girl Chocolate, a made-from-scratch, fast-growing, Black woman-owned chocolate brand, is set to expand into 150 Whole Foods Market stores across 20 states. With this expansion, founder Dr. Tabatha Carr is taking a bold step forward in her mission to build the largest Black-owned bean-to-bar chocolate factory in the United States, offering everything from dairy-free milk chocolate, to dark chocolate, to white chocolate, to truffles.

       29-year-old entrepreneur Hashim Walters from New Orleans, Louisiana, has officially launched The Latimer Group, an ownership consortium focused on acquiring Spirit Airlines, an iconic brand facing critical financial distress. He says that his mission is to empower African American economic leaders, creating the only Black-owned commercial airline in the United States.