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     As the largest Black-owned bank in America and first Black-owned digital bank, OneUnited wants to make sure our community owns the brands we build. Many times, we do not take the necessary steps to secure the ownership of our name. Let’s say you have a great business and a great name. Do you own it? And what does “owning” mean?

Wisconsin Race Reminds Us How Important Every Election Is

     As Women’s History Month comes to a close, I’ve been thinking about moms and honoring motherhood. I’ve written before about how my mom instilled values in me, including respect for everyone’s rights – not just my own.  Mom also worked multiple jobs to support our family through some very hard times. She represents my ideal of what a mother should be, without a doubt. 

      Former President Donald Trump’s nightmare of becoming the United States’ first dictator will never become a dream come true.

Voting and legislating in Florida is being controlled by the Republicans, and there is nothing the Democrats can do but fight and organize. The legislature in Florida is controlled by Republicans in all the houses, and insanity is deciding what bills will be passed and signed by the governor.

 America’s justice system has historically proven to be extremely partial towards wealthy white people and  positively skewed for ordinary whites. It wasn’t by happenstance that a white privileged justice system and society were created. No, it’s chiseled  into the cornerstones as well as the  pillars of our democracy. The  Merriam Webster Dictionary defines white Privilege as:  “the set of social and economic advantages that white people have by virtue of their race.”

     If Donald Trump is indicted by a Manhattan grand jury this morning (or tomorrow, or the next day), as both he and media reports predict, you can rest assured that another thing won’t be happening: his perp walk.

     While President Biden certainly could have stopped Willow, so can the financial institutions helping create it. Willow is just the most recent example of banks’ complicity in preserving fossil fuel extraction through a continuing flow of money to Big Oil and Gas – all despite pledging a year ago to pursue the net zero carbon emissions we need to save the planet.

  The Afghanistan’s War officially ended on August 30, 2021, as President Biden promised. However, the  war was a failure and the withdrawal  marred. The killing of thirteen soldiers and injuring of  dozens of others during the withdrawals by a suicide bomber was without question a horrific incident. Such an attack could have only possibly been prevented by undressing or searching every Afghan in an around the exit point, which would’ve caused a Civil War.

     This measly mouth boot licking former Vice President did the right thing on January 6th and this past weekend at a closed meeting put the January 6th incident squarely at the feet of Donald Trump.