There’s no room for weakness, errors, or betrayal. Constituents urged Democratic lawmakers to stay firm on their demands during the government shutdown. Many were willing to endure hardships for the greater good, leading to the longest shutdown in history.

If the Nov. 4 elections were measured on the Richter scale like earthquakes, they would likely register a magnitude of 4.0.

We’re seeing the early stages of an imposed civil war – While we’re struggling for basic survival, the MAGA movement is fueling a battle that pits us against the branches of government and deepens the historic fault lines among us.

U.S. workers are more stressed out than ever. Black workers have always caught more hell on the job than other workers.

VIA First Alert 4 — “Burden of Proof: one man’s fight to show he’s innocent” is a First Alert 4 original podcast about the case of Fredrico Lowe-Bey.

How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

Those were the poignant words of the Rev. Howard-John Wesley in a sermon using the life and death of Charlie Kirk as his subject. Kirk was the rising star of the MAGA movement who was cut down by a bullet as he spoke to students at Utah Valley University.

The number of guns exceeds the population in the U.S., and so it comes as no surprise that the country has the highest number of school shootings in the world or that guns are the leading cause of death among our children and adolescents.

The country is bracing for the newly named Department of War’s attack on the American city of Chicago. Whether it is the administration’s latest tactic to distract the public from the Epstein files or not, it is setting up a dangerous precedent. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker have drawn their lines in the urban sand. Now it’s a waiting game to see what the bully-in-chief will do.

Every now and then, Black people of African descent must dip into the historic and ancient waters of our experiences in this country. This affirmation helps to clear our minds and to fortify the resolve needed to defy the relentless, negative assaults on our existence.