Author: Carma Henry

       According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Black adults are nearly twice as likely as white adults to develop type 2 diabetes. This racial disparity has been rising over the last 30 years, creating a disproportionate need for certain medications in communities of color. Despite the FDA’s approval for compounding pharmacies to produce semaglutide, Novo Nordisk, a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company that makes the drug, has targeted these providers in order to protect their profits and eliminate the competition.

    The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has had a sordid and controversial history since its establishment by the Judiciary Act of 1789. Historians once deemed their ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford the most egregious decision ever. However, the gravity of their recent Trump v. United States decision, which may surpass even this infamous ruling, is a cause for concern. SCOTUS’s recent decision demands that these six conservative complicit conspiratorial justices must face impeachment for “lack of good behavior.”

       Despite the many accomplishments and contributions Black women have provided to American society, they have often been viewed as items that could be auctioned off, replaced, and discarded. This failure to see the nuance of Black girl magic and a Black woman’s worth has been a long-standing issue. Vice President Kamla Harris isn’t the first Black woman tasked with trying to help stabilize American society. Throughout the centuries, Black women have played a crucial role in keeping America from reaching disaster. From the big house, cotton fields, working as domestics, midwives, and learning in segregated classrooms to integrating once segregated classrooms and becoming presidents at prominent academic universities, Black women have always served, stood in the gap, and assisted with stabilizing our society when we needed it the most. Their historical significance, often overlooked, is a rich tapestry of resilience, strength, and unwavering commitment. This legacy commands our respect and admiration, a history that we must revere and honor, and it’s this respect and appreciation that will help us recognize the actual value of Black women in our society.

 NNPA NEWSWIRE — Vice President Kamala Harris can win Florida because of her vision, her experience, her leadership skills, her rich history, her heritage, and her sense of decency, dignity, and decorum.

        In October 2023 Rev. Rhonda Thomas Executive Director of “Faith in Florida” created a digital tool-kit to help teach Black history outside of the public School System. The toolkit is an extension of her work on racial, economic, and social justice issues. This is a statewide coalition that includes mobilizing voters, seeking reduction in poverty, and gun violence.

        Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu and former President Donald Trump are in the same boat. Right-wing Zionist Netanyahu wants to remain a “warlord” president and Trump seeks a second term in the White House because they both want “stay out of jail” cards!

   For example, Project 2025 calls for banning public employee unions―unions representing teachers, librarians, firefighters, postal workers, police, clerks, trash collectors, and other public sector workers. As 32.5 percent of public sector employees belong to unions, they constitute the most highly unionized portion of the American workforce. Thus, the abolition of their unions would eliminate nearly half the union membership in the United States.

The boy had been involved in a program to introduce peace circles to schools – moments in the school day when a class sits together and shares their thoughts and feelings around a certain topic. Like other school systems, Pittsburgh had begun this program to help reduce violence by giving students tools for better communication. Happily for this boy and his family, what happened in the classroom didn’t stay in the classroom.

        Perhaps you’ve heard the term “teachable moment” in recent years. It is a way of framing or reframing a mistake or misfortune into a learning opportunity or chance for growth.

      Since the presidential campaign shake-up in July, the national conversation about manhood is abuzz with talk of a “new” masculinity, embodied by good, decent men like Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff. What’s actually new, though, is what’s now coming into focus: the consequences of years of men’s hard work to redefine manhood.