In October 2023 Rev. Rhonda Thomas Executive Director of “Faith in Florida” created a digital toolkit to help teach Black history outside of the public School System. The toolkit is an extension of her work on racial, economic, and social justice issues. This is a statewide coalition that includes mobilizing voters, seeking reduction in poverty, and gun violence.

WASHINGTON, DC – There is an alarming surge in gun-related violence, particularly among younger people and gangs. This plague has now spread from other parts of the Caribbean into Antigua and Barbuda which has recently suffered a spike in gun crimes.

As we celebrate the 59th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) this month, it is important we remember: the only way to tackle the complex challenges of our time is with a democracy that is responsive to the people it represents.

“What good is a dollar an hour more in wages if your neighborhood is burning down? What good is another week’s vacation if the lake you used to go to is polluted and you can’t swim in it and the kids can’t play in it?”

As the Democratic Convention begins August 19, thru August 22, 2024 the Black and the diverse media must have a chair at the table. In Chicago there will be 50,000 visitors and 15,000 members of the media there. Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota will be the stars of the convention.

On August 1st, celebrated by Jamaicans as Emancipation Day, Jamaicans Marlon Hill and Delroy Redway were in different parts of the world but had United States vice president Kamala Harris on their minds. Hill, a lawyer and key figure in South Florida’s Jamaican community, was preparing to launch a campaign there for Harris, the unofficial Democratic nominee for US president.

WASHINGTON, DC – Poverty is the festering wound at the heart of the world’s social, economic, and political tensions. In the Americas, it is a stark reality that not only divides but destabilizes entire nations.

As the Democrats build a new electoral team in 2024 the Harris and Walz team kicks off a cross country tour in five battleground states. Minnesota Governor Walz is an unknown commodity and in the next 90 days America will get to know what the two candidates stand for, and if they can unify the country.

As the world grapples with the ever-intensifying impacts of the climate crisis, a stark and troubling reality has emerged: Black communities are bearing a disproportionate burden of environmental degradation. This inequity is not merely a matter of statistics or abstract concepts; it translates into real, tangible hardships that exacerbate existing social and economic disparities.

The modern civil rights movement hit a new peak last week in Illinois. It marked the movement coming full circle, in a way, back to the state of its birth more than a century ago.

Vice President Kamala Harris has the vision, the intellect and the heart to lead a conversation about how to preserve American democracy. As a country, we are still struggling to make this “A more perfect union.” We are an incredibly unique and beautifully diverse nation, blessed in so many ways. However, our history of cultural cleavage and racial unrest still plagues us. At times, the ideological divide seems to be an unbridgeable chasm. There are those who would use political power to exploit our differences and undermine the very democratic institutions that have held us together as a nation.

If you live long enough, you’ll revert to the ways of infancy, no teeth, poor eyesight, can’t walk, always drooling, peeing and messing up yourself. It’s not pretty, as both ends of the age range are similar. They do say, ‘Once a man, twice a child.’