Author: Carma Henry

The bus tour is part of AFSCME’s Staff the Front Lines initiative, a comprehensive effort that includes hiring events, legislative advocacy, extensive partnership building and a robust digital marketing strategy. The initiative also establishes a national Job Training and Development Center to build a sustainable talent pipeline into public service and address structural barriers to entry and advancement. The bus will make stops in communities across the country, where community leaders will host job fairs to recruit new talent, listening sessions with public service workers and professional development events.

  I’m blessed to work for a publisher  who allows me to digress periodically from my main focus – sports – to areas that relate to life such as politics, religion, family, social issues,  et al.

     An Alabama man was tased by police officers “until he died” after he was wrongly deemed a burglary suspect, according to lawyers.

Cleveland Leigh Abbott was born December 9, 1892 in Yankton, South Dakota. He is most remembered for his coaching career at Tuskegee Institute (now University) in Alabama.

The NCAA Division II Membership Committee informed Edward Waters University that it is has progressed toward becoming a Division II member.

     The Pro Basketball Hall of Famer and NBA on TNT analyst provided what was described as “a generous and transformative” donation to Bethune-Cookman University in the first installment of a $1 million pledge.

According to a Scottsdale police report, Galchenyuk, who signed a $775,000 contract earlier this month with the Coyotes, was involved in a hit-and-run accident and subsequently confronted a Black police officer using racial slurs and making graphic threats.

     Echols, known as “Kid Dynamite” because of his powerful punch, died Sunday in Davenport of complications from diabetes, according to his daughter, Antwunette Echols.

     Ol’ Pete has some advice for New Pete. Take the job, prove yourself and re-negotiate the Super Majority in a couple years.

     No matter how difficult the road may seem ahead of us, there is nothing new under the sun. It’s not uncommon for people who are opposed to the success of those who are “different” to do whatever they can to try to stop them.