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     A May 10, 2023 article titled, Housing on the way for Georgia’s largest veteran population, by Channel 12 news reporter Craig Allison offered a solution for Augusta, Georgia’s homeless veterans. But it raises the question, in 2023 why is there still not enough housing for America’s military heroes?

     It’s a monumental step in a fight I’ve been part of for more than a decade, since we launched the NAACP’s climate justice program and reported on the disproportionate harm to Black communities from coal-fired power plants.

     Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) play an essential role in the education of Black students in America. HBCUs open the path to higher education for Black students who did not have an opportunity, because Blacks were barred from a higher education.

      In the TV version of what went on in Dodge City, gunslingers, and lawbreakers were told to “get out of Dodge”.

     Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has willingly allowed his unethical behavior to cast himself as a Black  man beguiled by a billionaire white man. Justice Thomas is now reminiscent   of the Uncle Tom character angry 18th Century racists whites chose to mis-characterized in  Harriet Beecher Stowe’s bestselling novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”

In one of the most-controversial education issues of the 2023 legislative session, the Florida Senate on Wednesday passed a measure that would expand last year’s “Parental Rights in Education” law — known to critics as “don’t say gay.”

   May is Mental Health Awareness Month. At the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO), we understand mental health concerns are public safety concerns. As a public safety organization, we seek to explore new and effective ways to address mental health issues that touch our community.

 Regrettably,  women have been taken advantage  of by white men for Centuries. Sadly, there  continues little or no resistance that has been taken to defend women against   societal norms, religious dogma, and laws  that steadily  suppress their  inalienable rights. Looking back as  how men labeled animals as livestock or poultry, their treatment then and now says, “Women are merely human livestock.”

     The suggestion that young and gay will generate more voter support than old and gray is not necessarily a winning suggestion.