Author: Carma Henry

Hollis Watkins, who started challenging segregation and racial oppression in his native Mississippi when he was a teenager and toiled alongside civil rights icons including Medgar Evers and Bob Moses, has died. He was 82.

     After serving two successful terms as the Chair of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) trade organization from 2019 to 2023, her peers have now elected her chair of the National Newspaper Publishers Association Fund (NNPAF).

     Vice President Kamala Harris told thousands of college students and others in Miami Thursday that the country is witnessing “an intentional full-on attack against hard won freedoms and rights,” and they need to respond by going to the ballot box next year.

   Nancy Abudu, former legal director for the ACLU of Florida, will be installed as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Friday in Atlanta. In doing so, she will make history as the first Black woman to serve on that court.

     The book restrictions happening across Florida aren’t just an attack on our students’ educational experience — they are an assault on parental autonomy in the classroom. As parents, it’s our duty to support and guide our children through their educational journey. We push them to learn as much as they can within the parameters we set. We have a responsibility to set those rules and boundaries for our own kids — and no one else’s.

For many teachers, adapting to their students’ needs means a greater emphasis on children’s mental health. As anxiety, depression, and behavioral issues are on the rise in kids, some lesson plans have been expanded to help struggling students succeed despite facing significant challenges.

Despite the high number of denials, many state Medicaid agencies reported that they did not routinely review the appropriateness of MCO denials.

     A day long civil rights summit convened September 27, 2023, at the B.B. King Museum and Interpretative Center, 400 2nd Street, Indianola, MS to possibly provide some answers to the aforementioned question and enlighten the residents of the Delta that they hold the stories that are now being monetized and marketed to the world. Stories that have been suppressed for generations because of fear and retaliation by the white minority that to this day keeps a strangle hold on the wealth that was built on slave labor.

However, the shocking revelation came when Bankman-Fried explored the possibility of paying Trump himself not to run, with sources suggesting Trump’s price tag for withdrawal was a staggering $5 billion.

     Every fall for the past 10 years, caring South Floridians have teamed up with the American Red Cross to create a little holiday cheer for our troops overseas and local veterans in hospitals and nursing homes. The organization’s Holiday for Heroes project invites your community to write messages of thanks and donate snacks, playing cards and other small items for holiday care packages — which are delivered in colorful stockings hand-sewn by Red Cross volunteers.