Donald Trump’s affordability crisis has brought a troubling reality to Black working class voters. Despite Trump touting a “strong” labor market, prices are increasing and unemployment is rising faster for Black men and women.
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He cared about people. While he was one of the chief architects of the Civil Rights Movement, he never lost his ability to be with those who didn’t have a title or position. I met Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when I was a student in college.
A 43-year-old disabled widow, burdened by medical debt from her husband’s and her own cancer, walks two hours in the early morning darkness to get free treatment at a health fair in Columbus, Ohio, a treatment for conditions not covered by her Medicaid. At the same time, Medicaid, and the SNAP food benefits that have also sustained this widow, are being severely cut by this administration.
The Drill Baby Don has unveiled a new yacht club for mobsters. Perhaps his humorless advisors didn’t realize how closely its moniker, Board of Peace, resembles the title Golding’s novel of savagery Lord of the Flies. The Don’s membership fee for his, let’s call it the ‘Hoard of Fleas,’ is a cool $1 billion in cash that will be collected in brown paper bags.
“The fall blues,” is how Tamika Jeanty describes the seasonal mood swings she experienced in her late 20s. Every October, she felt withdrawn, anxious, and lethargic, coping in silence until she spoke with her sister, Dr. Naomi Jeanty-Higgins.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Dr. King spent the final chapter of his life pushing the country to face economic injustice. The day before he was tragically assassinated, Dr. King stood with sanitation workers in Memphis to call for economic equality. He helped launch the Poor People’s Campaign because he knew freedom hollowed out by poverty is not freedom at all. Dr. King kept pushing America to match its promises with practical pathways.
International megalomania is a dangerous syndrome—an obsessive drive for dominance on the world stage fused with a false belief in personal invincibility. History provides unmistakable examples of megalomaniac figures such as Joseph Stalin, Muossilini, and Adolf Hitler. Each pursued imperial greatness at immense cost while sacrificing human life in service of grand ambition. Rather than strengthening society, their pursuits hollowed it from within.
WHEN in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary to decide that a government that purports to represent the union of states has failed to do so; that the unalienable rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness have been trampled upon by that government; and that the rule of law and the Constitution have been systematically violated, then whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.
On a cold January morning, a small group of visitors walks through a National Park, expecting to honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. The gates are open, but the celebration is absent—no banners, no programs, no recognition. Juneteenth, too, has vanished from the federal calendar. Last year, the Pentagon paused Black History Month. And President Donald Trump became the first president since Ronald Reagan not to issue an official proclamation honoring King’s birthday. Recognition alone is fragile. Justice, as King knew, is never automatic, it is made, defended, and demanded.
The days of long-lasting family love where men and women work together to build things together, where respect, peace, and love grow, where both, or all, family members feel safe, protected, and appreciated, and family members fight for progress, not for positions.