Author: Carma Henry

     A 45-year-old man was arrested in the theft of a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the ankles and found days later smoldering in a trash can in a city park in Kansas, police announced Tuesday.

     From her feed on X, formerly known as Twitter, and her YouTube channel LivForHoops, the former Florida A&M basketball player is breaking down matchups across Black College women’s basketball from Division I to the NAIA ranks.

     The success marks the second championship under Garfield Ellenwood II, the Rattlers’ Director of Track & Field and Cross Country, who recently led the women’s cross country team to the podium this past fall. FAMU’s medal count over the two-day indoor meet included six gold, five silver, and four bronze.

  When Rajah Caruth says he needs a new ride, he sounds like many HBCU students making their way through school. But unlike his peers at Winston-Salem State, Caruth routinely tops 100 mph and makes news when he gets a replacement vehicle.

The Politics of Hate

     Unions are once again playing a significant role in a presidential election. Joe Biden joins striking auto workers on a picket line in Michigan; Donald Trump meets with Teamsters leaders at Mar-a-Lago and Washington D.C. Vying for working-class votes, the candidates show how choices made by both union and non-union workers are seen as pivotal to election victory.

     Putin demonstrated in his “interview” with Tucker Carlson the delusional version of Russian history that rationalizes his brutality. Hamas and Netanyahu continue to demonstrate Auden’s classic line: “Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return.” It often seems as if vast swaths of the Middle East operate under the collective delusion that the various parties, state or non-state, can kill their way out of insecurity and injustice.

     NATO promised at that point–at least the US rep James Baker promised in 1990–that NATO wasn’t looking to expand, but presumably rather to sit quietly to see if peace is really possible without its oppositional military alliance, dominated by the Soviet Union.

    For some time, it’s been apparent that the world’s nations are not meeting the growing challenges to human survival.

     Aleksei Navalny, to all effects murdered by Putin, represented by contrast about as absolute a standard of what might constitute a morally honest life as humanly possible. He was not perfect; nobody is. In his early political life he dallied with racist forms of nationalism, which he outgrew.