Author: Carma Henry

   The Florida A&M University Rattlers are coming off a 31-7 road win over the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils on Sept. 30.

     He’s a freshman guard playing at Duke, which has one of college basketball’s highest profiles. He’s flamboyant, born with a warm but electric smile and blinged out with painted fingernails.

           You have a small but vocal group of nationalistic insurrection supporters who want to destroy Democracy in America. Even most Republicans say the political “puppets” want to burn (Congress) down.

     From 1998 to 2019, the Black poverty rate decreased from 36.7% to 17.1%, respectively. Blacks became less poor but remained first in poverty. During the same period, Black median net worth increased from $8,995 to $24,100, respectively. Yet, Blacks remained at the bottom in median net worth.

     Since Kevin has not stood for much, it has been hard for people to trust him; trust is built when you make and keep agreements—he has a history of breaking agreements. Apparently the final straw was the suggestion he made a side deal with President Biden.

Hardening Ourselves into Weapons

      Israel and Hamas are at war, with many deaths on both sides being reported. Meantime, another crisis is brewing, within the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Leticia Ortega de Ceballos sleeps in her car during weekdays, enabling her to work two housekeeping jobs, one at the Loews Hollywood Hotel, the other at the Glendale Hilton. She lives 105 miles away, in California City, Kern County.

Two in One

      The morbid decline of the Republican Party is real. When Dick Cheney, one of the key architects of the colossal moral failure of going to war in Iraq, states that he no longer recognizes the Republican Party, it’s clear that the U.S. is in serious trouble.