Author: Carma Henry

        Estimates suggest that only about 2% of U.S. health research is dedicated to studying the health needs of Black women. Organizations such as the Black Women’s Health Imperative are working to change that. With support from a $1.2 million grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the organization has launched initiatives to address these disparities, including the largest menopause and perimenopause survey ever conducted specifically for Black women.

   This perspective is not abias to be dismissed, it is an expertise to be valued. Yet too often, it is met with skepticism or discomfort, particularly when it challenges dominant narratives. The cost of speaking up, then, becomes more than professional disagreement. It becomes pers-onal. It is the weight of holding the stories of families who have been marginalized, while navigating systems that may not be prepared to hear those stories. It is the risk of being labeled, dismissed, or silenced for bringing forward truths that complicate the narrative.

       Democracy does not collapse with a bang—it decays when power begins to believe it is permanent, unquestionable, and immune to consequence. That is the moment a presidency ceases to serve and begins to consume. That is the moment we cross the line between Defenders of Democracy and Destroyers of Democracy. The destroyers crown themselves as indispensable. But they misunderstand the fundamental truth: the people are not merely the ground, they are the ocean, capable of swallowing any illusion of permanent power.

       It was the largest protest in US history. More than 3300 rallies in all 50 states and more on every continent across the globe. It’s an understatement to say No Kings III was an overwhelming success.

       Sinclair Lewis would have recognized Pete Hegseth immediately—a Christian nationalist whose religious beliefs, tattoos, and now his policies let everyone know he’s on a crusade to do no good. And what more perfect position from which to crusade than secretary of war. This is a man who says: “There would be no Europe and no America” if not for the Crusades—a gross distortion of history that nevertheless shapes his view of the military and US national security.

       On 4 April 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave one of the most comprehensive, brave, ethical, compassionate, eloquent speeches of his life, Beyond Vietnam: A time to break the silence. Some say it was the speech that moved enough Americans against the war so that it made it impossible for that war to continue except as one opposed by most Americans, especially important politically because there was conscription.

       America was formally born on July 4, 1776, with the Declaration of Independence, but the USA was not born until September 17, 1787 when the Constitution was adopted. America was born of revolution and a claim that god created human rights and government’s job was to preserve those rights, and any government that violated the peoples’ god-derived rights was not long for this world.

    Radio was introduced commercially in 1920, when the Westinghouse Corp. launched station KDKA in Pittsburg. Other stations followed. Because transmission frequencies could be chosen arbitrarily, stations interfered with one another’s broadcasts. The system became chaotic; listeners could hear two stations simultaneously. The Federal government stepped in with the Radio Act of 1927, which created the Federal Radio Commission (FRC) to assign frequencies, limit interference, and regulate ownership. Most important, this act declared that the airwaves belonged to the public.

       Miller was presumably exposed annually from an early age to the Passover story from the biblical Book of Exodus, ritualized according to the textual telling in the Haggadah every year at this time around the seder table. Here we learn that the Jewish people were enslaved in Egypt for 400 years and had none of the rights accorded the non-Jewish members of that society – such as they might have been living under the pharaonic god-kings. They were, you know, a “labor class” without rights.

Elijah Winslett, a trumpeter from Huntsville, Alabama, won the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Seventh District Talent Hunt competition, grabbing a First-Place trophy and a $1,800 scholarship award. The event was part of the 89th Annual Seventh District Meeting held on March 27 in Cobb County.