Author: Carma Henry

     Americans saw pro football players weep openly on the field and during news conferences last week — a window into a deep culture shift by one of the nation’s most macho and barbaric sports.

Everyone that wants to vote by mail needs to re-request their Vote-By-Mail (VBM) ballots for the 2023/2024 General Election cycle. 

   “America needs the ghosts of slavery to remind us of how our nation was really built, said artist,” said Marcus Brown whose augmented reality (AR) exhibit has opened in New Orleans.

Amid scrutiny over Cleveland police hiring practices, the department has been scouting Historically Black Colleges and Universities to help fix its image. Not everyone is on board.

     It’s called “The Embrace,” and to design it, Hank Willis Thomas pored over hundreds of images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife, Coretta Scott King. “There was an intimacy that I saw that wasn’t really highlighted often,” Thomas said. “Often when you do look closely at pictures, they’re holding each other’s hands.”

     Knowledge, accountability, and trust will be the cornerstones of Judge Katherine “Kat” Thomas’s tenure at the 184th Criminal District Court. Thomas is committed to public service and restoring trust in our system. After earning a degree from Spelman College and an internship with President Barack Obama, she graduated from Howard Law and came back home to Houston. Thomas has made her career fighting to help others, and she’s working to make our communities safe.

     Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group (AMG), which owns theGrio, has inked a new promotional partnership with the award-winning indie film “Freedom’s Path” for HBCU GO — the leading media provider for the nation’s 107 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

After a chaotic floor fight, the new speaker won by making a series of concessions to far-right rebels that Democrats say will make the House ungovernable.…

Florida’s new congressional map creates 18 seats with a FiveThirtyEight partisan lean of R+5 or redder, and only eight seats with a partisan lean of D+5 or bluer. The remaining two seats fall into the “highly competitive” category between R+5 and D+5.

A couple of Mondays ago, I watched in absolute horror as Demar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest after making a hit on a Cincinnati Bengals player. Tuesday morning quarterbacking suggest that everything from that moment forward was executing near perfectly as Hamlin was resuscitated on the field and transported hurriedly to the local hospital to continue life-saving treatment. While he remains in critical condition, sources are reporting that his medical status is steadily improving.