When he posted on October 25, 2023, he also shared video of Gaza, in three weeks of bombardment the devastation was already unfathomable. He condemned what was happening but noted the absence of vocal opposition. Some 21 months later children in Gaza are starving to death, the war and restrictions on aid have had predictable consequences. Children die when they don’t have food and water. Yesterday, as I write (July 28th), the AP reported on a 5-month-old girl who was 6.6 pounds when she was born but 4.4 when she died.
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There is a VERY deep lesson in Travis Hunter’s three year climb from being the top high school football player in America (according to Rivals, ESPN, 24/7 Sports and other media outlets that provide such rankings), to winning the Heisman Trophy—an award given annually to the top player in the collegiate game. Simply stated, that lesson is that we all must have unwavering faith in the vision that has been placed in our hearts for our own lives—be it professional, personal, or a combination of the two!
The International Criminal Court’s recent issuance of arrest warrants to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza has stirred up a considerable backlash. Dismissing the charges as “absurd and false,” Netanyahu announced that Israel would “not recognize the validity” of the ICC’s action. U.S. President Joe Biden denounced the arrest warrants as “outrageous,” while the French government, after agreeing to support them, reversed its stance.
For example, Project 2025 calls for banning public employee unions―unions representing teachers, librarians, firefighters, postal workers, police, clerks, trash collectors, and other public sector workers. As 32.5 percent of public sector employees belong to unions, they constitute the most highly unionized portion of the American workforce. Thus, the abolition of their unions would eliminate nearly half the union membership in the United States.
Religion has always been at odds with the founding principles, for religions usually deny liberty, equality, and democracy. Religions are mostly autocratic, require strict adherence to doctrine and resist racial and gender equality. Even so, religions had abided American democracy, satisfied with a constitutional guarantee of religious freedom. For Christian fundamentalists that is no longer true. They seek to supplant American values with religious views.
For thousands of years, competing territories, nations, and empires have spilled rivers of blood and laid waste to much of the world through wars and plunder. Hundreds of millions of people have died, while many more have been horribly injured or forced to flee their shattered homelands in a desperate search for safety. World Wars I and II, capped off by the use of nuclear weapons to annihilate the populations of entire cities, brought massive suffering to people around the globe.
Inflation and taxes guarantee each successive generation is not better off than the previous generation, and its worse for Blacks.
The program’s participation rate, which now exceeds one-third of eligible households, far outweighs that of the Lifeline program, which offers a $9.25 discount on phone or internet service and has attracted less than one-in-five (19%) eligible households to enroll. Because of the program’s success, education, civil/human rights, religious and civically conscious groups are imploring the powers that be to not cast the 20 million participating households into the digital dark…to not allow the ACP to end.
This warped vision became particularly apparent during the Russian government’s military invasion, occupation, and annexation of Ukraine, when major organizations on the anti-American Left, although supposedly antiwar and anti-imperialist, focused their criticism solely on the U.S. government, NATO, and Ukraine.
The launch of the Palm County (PBC) Black Caucus isn’t political, but it is in response to politics—and the lack of progress on issues important to the community, such as the recent Haitian immigration crisis.