Author: Carma Henry

     Health disparities continue to plague marginalized communities across the United States. Narrow into the southern region of the country, and jarring statistics persist to paint a jarring picture of what is happening in our communities, and it’s not being amplified enough. 

   According to Michael Kimmel (2013), “When America’s white men feel they’ve lived their lives the ‘right way, worked hard and stayed out of trouble and still do not get economic rewards, then they must blame somebody else.” Consequently, angry white males’ have resorted to violence, sometimes deadly.

     Today, by contrast, many of us are oblivious to our history or have simply forgotten it, which poses a huge danger: that of sleepwalking our way into a nuclear war with catastrophic consequences for our country and all of humanity.

      Although Donald Trump, as president, proclaimed in his 2020 State of the Union address that he had produced a “blue-collar boom” in workers’ wages, the reality was quite different. Using his control of the executive branch of the U.S. government, Trump repeatedly undermined the wages of American workers by blocking raises and imposing wage reductions.

      The Biden administration has been working on a package deal with Saudi Arabia that would guarantee a path to a Palestinian state in return for a permanent cease-fire and establishment of Saudi-Israel relations. But the Saudis want more for themselves: a U.S.-Saudi mutual defense pact and cooperation on a civilian nuclear program in the kingdom. Those are steps too far: They risk bringing the US into a war with Iran and contributing to a “peaceful” nuclear program that could evolve into a Saudi bomb program.

     As Israeli troops continue their assault in Rafah, increasing the death toll and displacing – yet again – hundreds of thousands of Gazans, there’s much to be learned from recalling Dr. Martin Luther King’s visionary words on Vietnam 57 years ago. Breaking his silence on a war that by then had claimed over 20,000 American and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese lives, King declared that the war in Vietnam was swallowing “men and skills and money like some demonic, destructive suction tube.” It was blocking, he said, whatever progress the nation had been making toward economic and racial justice.

     Are there any misconceptions that you’ve had about payroll? Did you end up finding out the reality of the situation after experiencing a series of unfortunate events? Hopefully, your answer is no, but whether you have been duped by nonfactual information or not, staying informed is the key to protecting yourself. So, keep reading for a chance to separate fact from fiction when running payroll for your business. Let’s get started!

      May 14 was the day that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was set to implement a new rule that would save credit card holders an estimated $14 billion each year. The rule would provide savings of $220 per year on average for people who are charged late fees. Instead, a federal district judge imposed a temporary injunction that halted the rule’s implementation.

     They discussed what reparations mean to them and reiterated their demand for $15billion to be invested ‘monetarily and through public policy that will be in effect for Black Bostonians for generations’.

      HBCUs are all too familiar with students who break barriers and rewrite history. This year, Marie Fowler became the oldest student to graduate from Howard University after receiving her doctorate in Divinity at 83 years of age. Last year, around the same time, Florida A&M graduate Tamia Potter became the first Black woman to gain entry into Vanderbilt University’s College of Medicine and Department of Neurological Surgery. No Black woman had ever been accepted as a neurosurgery resident in the college’s 148-year history.