Author: Carma Henry

     Howard University football talent took the field on Feb. 24 at the HBCU Legacy Bowl, the annual postseason all-star game featuring the best NFL draft-eligible football players from HBCUs.

HBCU All-Stars releases National Women’s Basketball watch list

Pompano Beach Arts is very proud to be hosting the world-premiere experience Intersection: Painting and Music on April 28, 2024 at 7 p.m., at the Pompano Beach Cultural Center. The event will showcase the debut of an abstract new collaboration between internationally lauded opera star Amy Shoremount-Obra, renowned musicians pianist Bradley Moore, violinist Eric Silberger, violinist Mann-Wen Lo and award-winning visual artist Serena Bocchino.

     Historically, Florida was among a handful of mostly southern states requiring runoffs if no candidate got at least one vote over 50 percent in a primary. In a crowded field, unless there was a powerful incumbent or some celebrity superstar, three or four candidates might splinter the turnout — so then the top two contenders would slug it out about a month later.

With just days left in the 2024 legislative session, House and Senate budget negotiators are trying to bring a spending plan in for a landing while bills are hurtling toward the finish line.

  With the 2024 elections nearing, lawmakers on Friday passed a measure that would require disclaimers on political advertisements that are created using generative artificial intelligence. Senators on Friday voted 32-0 to give final approval to the bill (HB 919), putting it in a position to go to Gov. Ron DeSantis.

     In the United States, we don’t need dictators telling us what’s what (though we certainly have plenty of aspirants). We have our own self-imposed blinkers on truth—what Noam Chomsky calls “manufactured consent.” We happily go along with the presumption that our way of life will dissolve unless we keep the military-industrial-political-journalistic-full-spectrum-dominance juggernaut moving “forward.”

     The moral courage of Airman Bushnell stands in sharp distinction to the many moral cowards, myself included, who seek ethical cover by “voting for the lesser of two evils” for Commander in Chief of the Empire’s War Machine. I was reading Fritz Thyssen’s book, “I Paid Hitler,” when I first learned of Bushnell’s manifest refusal to follow illegal, criminal, orders to aid and abet genocide in Gaza, a crime against humanity conducted on the ground by Israel but largely paid for by US taxpayers and supported by the US Air Force.

     Aghast at the use of nuclear weapons in August 1945 to obliterate the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Einstein threw himself into efforts to prevent worldwide nuclear annihilation. In September, responding to a letter from Robert Hutchins, Chancellor of the University of Chicago, about nuclear weapons, Einstein contended that, “as long as nations demand unrestricted sovereignty, we shall undoubtedly be faced with still bigger wars, fought with bigger and technologically more advanced weapons.”

     It’s possible. Research shows that we are so divided into our tribes that we don’t really know each other. One study found Republicans believed 30 percent of Democrats are atheist or agnostic. The reality? Only eight percent of Democrats identified that way. Democrats believed that 38 percent of Republicans earn more than $250,000. The facts? Only two percent did.