Author: Carma Henry

James C. Boyd Funeral Home Services

McWhite’s Funeral Home

       For the more than 10 million Black Americans who rely on federal food assistance to feed their families, the projected damage from food-aid cuts was not just a warning. They were all but a done deal.

       For many Americans, emancipation is remembered as a single moment January 1, 1863 when Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. But for Black Floridians, freedom did not arrive with the stroke of a pen. It came slowly, painfully, and only after generations of struggle, sacrifice, and survival.

       Such is the story of Emma Mike and Lillie Mike, two little Black girls whose lives were stolen in Calhoun County, Georgia, in 1884 during one of America’s many acts of racial terror. One child was reportedly only six years old. The other was just four.

       The Book of Esther tells the story of a young woman placed in position “for such a time as this.” It was not comfort that called Esther. It was crisis. It was not convenience that summoned her. It was conscience. She understood that silence in dangerous times could become betrayal to her people.

Moriah and Sarai Freeman-Foster, African American twin sisters from Hapeville, Georgia, ranked first and second in their graduating class at Hapeville Charter Career Academy. They earned valedictorian and salutatorian honors after years of consistent academic effort and mutual support.

        Americans are not merely awaiting the celebration of the 250-year celebration. They are witnessing   an organized conspiracy to political murder  democratic foundations of the nation itself. The alleged motive behind this attempted political murder of democracy is rooted in a desperate determination to halt America’s gradual movement toward becoming a more inclusive and genuinely representative union. For the conspirators, the growing political participation of Black people, immigrants, women, and marginalized communities is perceived not as democratic progress, but as a threat to a long-protected hierarchy of racial and political dominance. What fuels America’s diabolic racism?

 Voter exclusion was never about men alone. And much is at stake for women in state and federal elections. 

   Although Donald Trump has never been modest about his abilities or reluctant to exercise personal power, during his second term in office he has shown clear signs of megalomania.