Author: Carma Henry

Let’s Think About How to Build a More Peaceful World

  Responding to the announcer’s familiar, “ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, please rise for our national anthem,” I stood at a recent baseball game, but Francis Scott Key’s lyrics transported me from the cheerful families around me to distant families, similarly innocent and civilian, besieged in Ukraine and Gaza.

     The invention of the telescope was more important than that of the steam engine, the transistor, the internet, or artificial intelligence. The telescope changed humankind’s understanding of the world.

The Runaway Cat

NABJ and the Babayka

     For me, it was Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. Based on the true story of Sadako Sasaki, it tells the story of a 12-year-old girl who survived the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima as a toddler, but later died of leukemia, or as it was called at the time ‘atom bomb disease’. Drawing from a traditional belief in Japan, she starts to fold 1,000 origami cranes in hopes that her wish for survival will be granted. When she does not succeed, her friends and family finish making the paper cranes after her death.

    In that regard, I want to opine on “Kamala Cash”.

Courts Need to Slap Down SLAPP Suits Like the One Targeting Greenpeace

Black Faith Leaders Rally to Support Kamala Harris for President

     Vice President Kamala Harris has officially made history as the first Black woman presidential nominee.