Author: Carma Henry

The Department of Education said it would email those who will receive the debt cancellation today, another step in the administration’s ongoing efforts to address the nation’s staggering $1.77 trillion student debt crisis.

Holy Cross Health has named Rudy Molinet as chair and Karen O’Byrne as vice chair of the Board of Directors and welcomed new board members Jon Ayers, LaRonda Chastang, Kathleen McManus and Brian Nelson.

Musician 1st Class Joseph Guimaraes, from Boca Raton, Florida, presents a low brass performance masterclass to students at Alabama A&M University as part of the United States Navy Band’s 2024 national tour.

     The State of Local News Project at Northwestern University documents the changing local news landscape across the country. Our latest report shows that where you live and how much money you make affect whether you live in a news desert or a news oasis. This divide is related to other factors affecting the health of our democracy, as analysis of our data by the nonprofit Rebuild Local News showed.

     Recently, I was deeply honored to be named this year’s Justice Peggy A. Quince Chapter of the National Black Law Students Association honoree at the St. Thomas University Benjamin L. Crump College of Law Black History Month Luncheon, Honoring Excellence: Past, Present, and Future.

     Monetary ignorance will continue to be the Black man’s burden until we listen to, or read about, ways to generate money for all Blacks in all countries.

     Both Venus Williams and her sister Serena were offered wild cards to play the BNP this year, however, only Venus has committed to play at this time. Now 43, Venus Williams returns to the desert tournament for the first time since 2019. Venus has 49 WTA titles, including four Olympic gold medals, on her substantial tennis resume.

     For its victims, war is . . . yes, hell. For the rest of us — the onlooking and supportive patriots — war is an abstraction embedded in ignorance, a.k.a., public relations, served up for public consumption.

     Uncertain opinions would lead to disagreement and eventually schisms, like the bitter and enduring break between the Shiite and Sunni sects of Islam and the Puritan, Calvinist, and other separatist groups within Christianity. Today there are more than 45,000 Christian sects worldwide and 200 in the US alone.

     Not too surprisingly, the criminal outlaw nations who have nukes don’t like it. As has long been said in the USA, “when guns are made illegal, only criminals will have guns.” Surprise, surprise, surprise, this logic also applies to nuclear weapons!