Author: Carma Henry

     The banality of evil was a term coined by Hannah Arendt to capture the ordinary and mundane daily lives people lead while atrocities were being committed. For example, you read about the stench of death and the impossibility of ignoring the smell; how could the people of Auschwitz pretend they did not know what was going on?

A Glimpse at the New American Economy … If We Can Seize the Moment

  The United Negro College Fund has announced a donation of $100 million from the Lily Endowment. The gift is the single largest unrestricted grant to the organization since its founding 80 years ago. The gift will go toward 37 Historically Black colleges and universities in an effort to boost HBCUs long term financial stability.

     DeSantis bet heavily on Iowa as he tried to become the alternative candidate to Trump. But Trump won about 51 percent of the vote — with a chance to win all 99 Iowa counties — while DeSantis was at about 21 percent, according to totals posted on the Iowa Republican Party website.

     Along with the church, the lawsuit — filed Dec. 29 — specifically names the search committee chair, Valerie S. Grant, accusing her of behaving inappropriately by asking Marshall Turman questions and pressing issues not broached with her male counterparts.

He also never lost sight of the fact that civil rights — addressing racial and economic injustice — were inextricable from liberation, freedom, equality, and world peace.

The “Great Migration” led  thousands of discontented Black Southerners to the big cities of the North. That evolved into financially and culturally vibrant meccas like Harlem (and it’s Renaissance), Sweet Auburn avenue (Atlanta), U”-Street (Washington D.C.), Overtown (Miami), “Black Wall Street” (Tulsa) and Bronzeville/“The Black Metropolis” in Chicago.  Bronzeville Vincennes.com wrote, “Bronzeville provided an isolated area for Blacks to live and work together.

     The proposal (HB 777), sponsored by Rep. Robbie Brackett, R-Vero Beach, comes after similar debates last year about municipal utilities, including electric utilities.

     In the heart of Florida’s sugarcane fields lies a little-understood community steeped in resilience, history, and a deep connection to the land they call home. I am Lavita Holmes, proudly born and raised in Hendry County. I live in Clewiston, Florida, and serve as the Executive Director for Glades Lives Matter, an organization deeply committed to the prosperity of all the Glades communities. 

     The Lady Wildcats are fresh off an 80-76 win over rival Florida A&M in Moore Gymnasium on campus on Jan 7. It was the SWAC opener for both teams.