Author: Carma Henry

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Know that your child’s involvement in Head Start will be the best investment in their educational experience that you can offer them. The holistic approach to learning — physical care for self, care for your peers, and learning how to exist in the world around you

The National Society of Arts and Letters (NSAL) Florida proudly announces its exciting new season of scholarships and competitions, empowering young artists across the state. Applications are now open in instrumental performance, voice, visual art, writing, and the national spotlight competition – ballet.

Jason Fauntleroy, an African American man from Butler County, Ohio, is battling the city of Trenton to keep a street he unintentionally purchased at an auction for $5,000, as officials try to reclaim it through eminent domain.

  The American people must urgently realize that weaponizing misinformation is not just a threat but a pervasive danger that infiltrates every aspect of their lives. It impacts our social fabric, political decisions, economic stability, health choices, and climate. The status of those who spread misinformation only serves to amplify this threat, no matter how seemingly insignificant. The Oxford Dictionary defines misinformation as disseminating false information, whether knowingly or unknowingly.

       Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has decided to end its third-party fact-checking program in the U.S., claiming this change will promote free speech. Mark Zuckerberg stated this move is meant to reduce censorship and errors but calling it a “relaxation” of content moderation is misleading. This isn’t about loosening the reins—it’s about purposefully allowing harmful and hateful content to flourish under the guise of free expression.

       “Every nation’s history includes unsettling truths that many would prefer to forget or deny. But true patriotism demands confronting the truths of our history—no matter how embarrassing or dishonorable—and undertaking the difficult work of learning from the lessons of our past in order to move forward. For the United States, that work requires reckoning with our shameful legacy of racial subjugation of Black people in this country—from slavery and Jim Crow to mass incarceration and police violence—as well as our long history of express discrimination against other people of color, women, and LGBTQ persons.

       Well, Trump has been found liable in civil court for his past behavior and his misrepresentations about his acts with a woman, he has been indicted for election abuses in more than one state, he was once associated with refusing to rent housing to Black renters in New York, he has been sued by contractors but he managed to get away without jail time in every instance.

        Over the past three years, a collective of volunteer re-searchers, lawyers, and commentators created The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, dedicated to holding accountable four weapon manufacturing corporations based in the U.S. Their tribunal amassed copious evidence to prove that Boeing, Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon), and General Atomics (a company which manufactures weaponized drones) are guilty of committing war crimes. On January 15, 2025, as the world marks the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, a press conference will announce the Tribunal’s verdicts and release the report of 10 international jurors who have weighed the evidence submitted to them.

       Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. remains one of the most powerful moral voices in American history, known for his unyielding commitments to justice, equality, and moral high ground. He is revered in large part for his leadership during the Civil Rights Movement, which transformed the nation by advancing civil rights, challenging systemic racism, and calling on Americans to live up to the highest ideals and promises of the founding fathers—”all men are created equal.” Today, America continues to grapple with division, inequality, and polarized politics. King’s vision is as relevant in 2025 as it was when the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964.

       If Trump’s working-class voters believed that deporting 13.3 million people will somehow improve their economic lives, many will soon learn that mass deportation harms all working people, not only migrants, and will help exacerbate a growing, oppressive inequality.