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Marijuana Use Spills into NYC Classrooms as Educators Grapple with New Cannabis Landscape

January 11, 2023 Carma Henry 0

Teens experimenting with marijuana is nothing new, but the legal landscape and market for the drug have shifted rapidly, making it easier for young people to get more potent cannabis products they can use discreetly before or during school. At the same time, the ongoing youth mental health crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, may be pushing more kids to self-medicate with marijuana. […]

Dr. King’s Quest for Economic Justice Continues

January 11, 2023 Carma Henry 0

On January 16, the nation will mark its 37th national holiday honoring the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968). Across the country observances will chronicle how one man’s efforts pricked the moral conscience of the nation in a lifespan of only 39 years. […]

Senate Committee Finds Widespread Employee on Inmate Sex Abuse in Federal Prisons

January 9, 2023 Carma Henry 0

“There are common elements of vulnerability in each of these women prisoner’s victimization. First, these women, as you know, often bring multiple well-known vulnerabilities into the correctional setting – past histories of childhood and adult physical and sexual abuse; poverty; involvement with powerful systemic actors like courts, child protection, housing, and immigration authorities that control their existence and their families’ existence; fear and deprivation that is part of the custodial experience,” Smith asserted. […]

Remembering Rosewood 100 years after massacre

January 5, 2023 Carma Henry 0

The centennial anniversary will honor the legacy of bravery, determination and perseverance of the eight families impacted by the Rosewood Massacre of 1923, according to information provided about the weeklong commemoration. […]

Biden Commemorates 160th Anniversary of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

January 5, 2023 Carma Henry 0

With the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln ended slavery in rebellious states that had seceded from the Union, thereby granting freedom to the enslaved in those states. The executive order also admitted newly “freed” Black men into the Army and Navy to fight for their freedom, or as the National Archives notes, “[enabled] the liberated to become liberators.” […]

Maryland Democratic Rep. Raskin Announces ‘Serious’ Cancer Diagnosis

January 5, 2023 Carma Henry 0

Raskin, 60, has served in the U.S. Congress, representing Maryland’s 8th district since 2017. The District of Columbia native previously served in the Maryland State Senate for two terms beginning in 2007. […]

The Family of a ‘Sweet, Giving’ Teen Girl Pleads for Answers Following Her Death

January 5, 2023 Carma Henry 0

According to People, the victim was identified by family and friends on the morning of Dec. 26 as 16-year-old Tayanna Manuel. The body was located in the neighborhood of Gateway-Green Valley Ranch and, apparently, a shooting had taken place near the area three days earlier. […]

D.C. Swears in Elected Officials for New Term

January 5, 2023 Carma Henry 0

Bowser made history as the first woman in the country to be elected as a mayor of a major city for a third consecutive term. She is also the second mayor to get a third term, with Marion S. Barry achieving the feat in 1994. […]

Phillip Jones, 33, to Be Sworn in as One of America’s Youngest Mayors on Jan. 10

January 5, 2023 Carma Henry 0

At 33, Phillip Jones will be among the youngest Mayors in the United States when he takes office in eight days. Jones will be sworn in on Jan. 10 at 11 a.m. in Newport News. He will be the city’s 27th Mayor, succeeding McKinley Price, 73, who took office in July of 2010. […]

A Look ‘Black’ On 2022 on How Black Excellence Still Prevails

January 4, 2023 Carma Henry 0

But like in 2020, when the Black Press was the first to reveal that the coronavirus was airborne, the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) issued facts on which African Americans and others could be certain. […]