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Reporters should have dumped on Donald Trump this week over his pathetic PR ploy in a garbage truck.
The embarrassing episode exemplifies Trump’s declining physical health, in addition to his phony portrayal as someone who gives a damn about working class Americans.
Unfortunately, the news coverage stunk to the point of being garbage itself because the stories failed to emphasize Trump’s physical limitations and questionable cognitive acuity.
Donald Trump has made no secret about his disdain for a free and independent press, as guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
During his 2016 presidential campaign and subsequent time in the White House, Trump castigated the mainstream media as the “enemy of the people” regarding any coverage he deemed critical of his own political viewpoints — or which he simply did not like for whatever reason.
Trump’s animosity toward journalists is well documented. He’s been raging against the news media unabated for the past decade.
Continue reading Can Freedom of the Press Survive Another Trump Presidency? – by David Grinberg
An email I received from a fellow named “Pedro” led to this co-authored piece, an exchange between Elwood Watson, PhD and yours truly.
“Pedro” wrote: “I read, reread – and will read again – your piece, “ Bad boys. Bad boys. Whatcha gonna do when they (Project 2025) come for you?,” the context of which if Trump returns to office. Hard as I tried, I just couldn’t shake the thought of the project’s plan to cut Social Security benefits given that my retired parents depend on their Social Security checks as their sole source of income. My hope is that you’ll consider publishing something on what actions folks can take if their preferred candidate loses the election.”
Continue reading What to do if your candidate wins or loses – by Terry Howard, Elwood Watson
Red lights are flashing brightly in Washington, DC.
They are the latest warning signs about former president Donald Trump’s declining mental acuity, as evidenced by his repeated outrageous threats and outlandish claims.
In unfairness to them both, while Hermon Johnson, Jr. Museum director, and Darryl Johnson, Sr. CEO, Mound Bayou Movement, provided a captivating history of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, I couldn’t shake an image nearby. I mean, never in my life could I imagine sitting less than ten feet from the wooden desk and tattered leather chair where once sat the late civil rights activist Medgar Evers cranking out letters on a black typewriter. I walked over to the desk, inhaled, and fought back a desire to touch either it or the chair.
So, what brought me to this indelible moment in my life, one that evoked such an incompatible mix of emotions, among them shock, anger, pride and above all…. inspiration?
Continue reading Near Medgar Evers’ Chair: Mound Bayou (Part 1) – by Terry Howard
Is Donald Trump…okay? It’s a question voters need to ask themselves before Election Day.
Trump’s political behavior has always been unconventional, to put it mildly. However, his recent words and actions appear to be indicative of declining mental acuity. This has especially been on display since Vice President Harris became the Democratic nominee in August.
It’s obvious that Trump has been deeply rattled and unsettled on the campaign trail since President Biden dropped out of the race. This has been evident by the language Trump has used in his speeches and other public remarks.
Continue reading Trump’s Mental Acuity Makes Him Unfit for the Presidency – by David Grinberg
This column is about Jamaica, a nation slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut. And at a contextual level, it’s about the prominent role native or U.S. born Jamaicans have played in history past and present.
Now to bring it into today’s news cycles, it’s about the powerful roles being played by Vice President Kamala Harris and Tanya Chutkan, the presiding judge over the criminal trial of former U.S. president Trump over his alleged attempts to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election, including the events leading up to the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
In July, 2020, the two of us became the inaugural co-directors of the University of California, Riverside, School of Medicine’s new Health Equity, Social Justice, and Anti-Racism (HESJAR) curricular initiative. Since then the teaching of health equity to medical students has been a journey of continuous renewal.
Publications about health equity emerge nearly every day. Each year’s student cohort provides new pedagogical challenges. Every module we teach raises new issues regarding learning and assessment. We can’t stand still.
Continue reading Renewing Diversity #2: Teaching Health Equity – by Carlos Cortés, Adwoa Osei
In sort of a nonchalant yawner – at least for me – September 25th, National Daughter’s Day came and went with nary a thought; understandable I guess if one isn’t blessed with having a daughter.
But suddenly, like swift kick in the groin, this coming November 5th, Election Day, a relevant September 25th piece by John Pavlovitz, and a piece I wrote a dozen years ago led to a dot-connecting, “oh wow,” pause by me.
Continue reading National Daughters Day and the Election – by Terry Howard
Since Abraham, forefather of Judaism smashed all the idols in his father’s lucrative idol showcase business which consisted of wooden deities, fertility gods, big and small idols promising provisions, as well as idols that assured health and wealth, this was the precise time when Abraham decided that there is no man-made visible god, but one who dwells up above, in the Celestial Heavens, the God that promised to protect and demanded of his Chosen People loyalty, humanity, wisdom and above all knowledge of their past history.
As time was overlapping one another, his people obeyed and disobeyed, were loyal and betrayed Him, stuck by Him through thick and thin not to mention those who abandoned him altogether.
