Author: Carma Henry

Standing in the same parking lot where he was shot in the neck a year ago in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket, Zaire Goodman said he was grateful to see the community come together in remembrance Sunday.

     “Whatever deal they put up with, we get the short end of the stick,” Pinkney, 91, said. When asked whether the neighborhood’s changing demographics motivated the plan, she said that Brownsville’s population is now nearly half Hispanic — 45.5% to be exact. “When I first moved out here, it was a Black community. Now, I’m totally against the [annexation]. Because all they want is money.”

   Loneliness in the U.S., which spiked during the isolation of COVID, remains a public health “crisis” — and now the advent of ubiquitous AI-driven chatbots could make actual human contact even scarcer.

     That fire has taken up residence in my body; it has occasion to visit me often and knows each nook and cranny. And since May 1, when Jordan, a Michael Jackson impersonator and unhoused man complaining of thirst and hunger on the New York City subway, was choked to death by a white former marine, the fire has stayed.

    America’s path towards becoming the most powerful country in the world has undergone a Revolutionary War, Civil War, two World Wars, countless lesser wars, and the  infamous January 6, 2021, unsuccessful insurrection. Despite the devastating impact of each of these events on this Nation, the two that have and continue to represent America’s  greatest mortal enemies are a divided government and its people.

     The practice of Black self-hate and racial hatred was promoted during slavery days. The Willie Lynch theory of dividing Black people and turning the light-skinned slaves against the dark-skinned and the house N-words against the field N-words has endured and impacted our communities to this very day.

     A May 10, 2023 article titled, Housing on the way for Georgia’s largest veteran population, by Channel 12 news reporter Craig Allison offered a solution for Augusta, Georgia’s homeless veterans. But it raises the question, in 2023 why is there still not enough housing for America’s military heroes?

    DeSantis also signed bills that will lead to the state inspecting Walt Disney World’s monorail system and require school districts to share local property-tax revenues with charter schools.

Will vs. Trust: Cost, Process and Uses

A diverse caucus of the nation’s oldest and largest Civil Rights organizations have come together, with one voice, to make a simple demand of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission: Hold a full commission vote on Standard General’s acquisition of TEGNA.