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       I was diagnosed with a learning disability early in life. Later, in college, I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a chronic condition that reshaped how I managed my health, education and future. These experiences did more than challenge me physically and academically; they shaped my mental and emotional well-being in ways that are often hard to put into words.

    While many of us are cutting back on groceries, travel, health care and other necessities to pay almost five bucks a gallon for gas (more than $5/gallon in some states), oil companies are raking in mega bucks. According to the politically centrist publication, The Hill, since President Trump started the war with Iran the world’s eleven largest oil companies are earning about 30 million dollars every hour. That comes to $720 million a day or more than $5 billion every week. Feeling ripped off? You should, but the price you pay at the pump is only what you see and feel. A lot of your tax dollars go to Big Oil too.

        Americans are not merely awaiting the celebration of the 250-year celebration. They are witnessing   an organized conspiracy to political murder  democratic foundations of the nation itself. The alleged motive behind this attempted political murder of democracy is rooted in a desperate determination to halt America’s gradual movement toward becoming a more inclusive and genuinely representative union. For the conspirators, the growing political participation of Black people, immigrants, women, and marginalized communities is perceived not as democratic progress, but as a threat to a long-protected hierarchy of racial and political dominance. What fuels America’s diabolic racism?

   Although Donald Trump has never been modest about his abilities or reluctant to exercise personal power, during his second term in office he has shown clear signs of megalomania.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE—Southern University Lab School in Baton Rouge shows how Black communities built educational pathways after Jim Crow exclusion, raising a larger question: why aren’t more HBCUs building K–12 pathways of their own?