Author: Carma Henry

Fudge, the second Black woman to lead HUD, has been a key figure in steering the agency through housing crises triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. She has also pushed for the federal government to include the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), on behalf of the Black Press of America, in its advertising spend.

Mr. Al Calloway: A Civil Rights Icon/Hidden Jewel in Our Community

     The settlement, which comes after months of talks, seeks to draw a distinction between preventing “classroom instruction” about gender identity and sexual orientation and other school contexts in which the subjects might come up.

The president’s approach emphasizes growing the economy from the bottom up and the middle out, as opposed to top-down strategies.

     Translational Genomic Medicine, has been awarded a $25 million grant funded by Cancer Research UK and the National Cancer Institute, through Cancer Grand Challenges, to address cancer disparities in populations of African ancestry, becoming the first Cancer Grand Challenge awardee to focus on cancer inequities.

  Biden must avoid becoming a political pawn before he can accomplish the other items on his slate. Collins Dictionary defines pawn as an individual used by others for their own advantage. Consequently, it’s important to identify those who’ve attempted to snarl Biden as their political pawn.

     Well, maybe there will be consequences later (and maybe not), but for the moment you have overcome your own moral barriers and can start doing your job as a soldier: killing people. And in the process, you are making the world – your world, not theirs – safe. War is such a paradox: killing one’s way to peace. But apparently it’s humanity’s primary organizing principle.

Fruits of our labors

Data from Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City shows that more than 13 percent of African American men between the ages 45 and 79 will develop prostate cancer in their lifetimes. And Black men have a 70 percent higher rate of developing prostate cancer than White men. The American Cancer Society also shockingly predicts that Black men are more than twice as likely to die from prostate cancer than their White counterparts.

Jackson Soul Food at Miami International Home-grown local Florida foodie institution, Jackson Soul Food, has brought its legendary family recipes to Miami International Airport (MIA) with the opening of its latest location, branded Jackson Square.