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  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.  

    Generative AI has dominated our conversations and reshaped how we work, learn, and create. In a recent article published in the Afro American Newspaper titled “Shaping the Future: Black Leadership in Tech Regulation”, Hussainatu Blake and Symone Campbell’s central argument isn’t about AI’s technical capabilities. It’s about safeguarding intellectual property and building regulatory infrastructure that protects Black technologists’ ideas, stories, and data.

     President Donald Trump’s long-serving aide, Stephen Miller, recently opined: “We live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world.”

Hypocrisy in the highest offices

     They hate federal overreach. They should be appalled at what’s happening in cities all across the United States. Unwarranted National Guard deployments. Seven hundred Marines illegally sent into Los Angeles. Over 2,000 armed agents in Minneapolis. Murders of citizens by immigration agents. Threats to invoke the Insurrection Act when it is Trump’s federal agents who are breaking the law and causing chaos.

     The words are those of Renee Good’s wife Becca. They cut to our heart – our humanity. She was shot in the face by an ICE agent, who then muttered: “Fuckin’ bitch.” The murder of this 37-year-old mom as she tried to drive around the ICE guys who stopped her is national news, of course. Almost everyone has seen at least one of the many videos of the incident and, you might say, the national dialogue about virtually anything else has been put on hold.

     It is hard to understand why Donald Trump is so anxious to acquire Greenland even if it takes military force. When he suggested this during his first administration, one of his Cabinet secretaries mused, “You just sit there and be, like, ‘Well, this isn’t real.’” Now, somehow, it is.

We Must Finish the Work Dr. King Died Doing