Author: Carma Henry

     The Xavier University of Louisiana Rowing Club, which launched in September 2023 in a partnership with New Orleans Rowing Club (NORC), is thrilled to announce that XULA rowing is being elevated to varsity status for the 2025-26 academic year. This milestone breaks barriers as the first-ever varsity-level rowing program for men and women at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU), bringing equality and access to the sport at the collegiate level.

Jamaican track stars Kishane Thompson and Tia Clayton, representing the celebrated MVP Track Club, electrified the Astana Indoor Meet for Amin Tuyakov Prizes, claiming stunning gold medals in their respective events on Saturday.

       “HBCUs are definitely a part of my foundation,” Sanders said at the East-West Shrine Bowl media event this past weekend. “I’m excited to be a part of that class and in that community.”

Black players that reflect ‘urban’ images will never be treated equally on and off the field

      Jackson State is scheduled to play an in-state FBS opponent during the 2025 regular season.

     Florida Memorial’s Latavious Mitchell was named the NAIA Men’s Defensive Player of the Week award, in addition to winning the Sun Conference’s Player of the Week award.         

      Reincarnation is a core belief of the Hindu faith. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna explains that changing one’s body is like changing one’s clothes. I accept that possibility as I accept the idea of a Christian afterlife. Both speculations are fascinating.

Bran’s Weakness, America’s Opportunity?

     There was a promising start along these lines during the late twentieth century, when―pressed by a popular upsurge against nuclear weapons―the nations of the world adopted a succession of nuclear arms control and disarmament agreements. Starting with the Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963, these agreements helped curb the nuclear arms race and prevent nuclear war.

EARLY NEXT WEEK, WE WILL FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT “mass deportation” means to Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and the gang. But as I’ve tried to anticipate and report on what is likely to come, I keep going back to a piece of writing that awakened us to another great unknown. It wasn’t an article on immigration—it was about climate change.