How do we keep our young people involved? That question has stayed with me. Because maybe the problem is bigger than getting young folks to come to a park, put on a family T-shirt, eat some barbecue and pose for a picture.
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It is time to stop playing around.
And there comes a time when people who have been pushed, divided, labeled, ignored, and taken for granted must stand up and say what the great civil rights warrior Fannie Lou Hamer told America more than half a century ago:
When Nobody Wants to Give Up the Chair, Who Is Listening to the People?
By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. There are moments when a community must refuse to be silent simply because the people making the decisions have the authority…
More than half a century ago, The Temptations put those words to music. It was 1970, but turn on the television, scroll through your phone, read the newspaper, or simply listen to the conversations around the kitchen table today, and you might wonder whether they were singing about 2026.
As students across Florida fill their backpacks, sharpen their pencils, and prepare for another school year, adults should be preparing for another important responsibility, the upcoming primary election.
As thousands of Omega men gather in Cincinnati, they do so during an election season that will influence the future of communities throughout America. The privilege to vote was not freely given. It was secured through generations of sacrifice, perseverance, and unwavering courage by men and women who believed that democracy fulfills its promise only when every eligible citizen participates.
How do we make the best decision if we are not given every opportunity to hear every voice?
Whether one approaches it from the biblical account of creation or the scientific understanding that humanity traces its origins to Africa, the conclusion is remarkably similar: we are one human family. From that one family emerged many nations, many languages, many cultures, many philosophies, and many ways of understanding the world.