HBCU Band Battle

 https://hbcugameday.com/2026/10/02/missy-elliott-hbcu-band-battle/

Osteoarthritis.

https://www.sciencealert.com/high-blood-pressure-may-directly-accelerate-osteoarthritis 

Friday News.

 

There is a new survey showing that majorities of Democratic and Republican voters support capping prescription drug costs, banning surprise medical bills, and stopping corporations from buying up homes. Far too often, many people have called these legitimate policy positions as a non-starter. That day is completely over as human lives are on the line literally to live with universal health care. Health care is never a privilege reserved for the very few of our society. Health care is always a human right that should be accessible to all human beings, regardless of color, creed, gender, or background. That is why this reality makes it clear that a rural person, a person from an urban community, and a person from the suburbs have many things in common like our appreciation for quality health care and seeking power to be spread among the people in a fair fashion, not centralized into an oligarchy that reap the benefits of the rest of the people. Economic populism has been very popular in our society. Economic populism is about opposing corporate power who monopolize resources, who hike up prices on many goods and services, and seek to profit with record tax breaks at the expense of the rest of the workers. 

The Cornell 7 situation outlines the epidemic of rape in the world society. I don't care if a woman was naked, that woman shouldn't be violated sexually or physically or emotionally. A drunk person can never consent in the world. Therefore, no one should have sexual interaction with a person who is not sober and didn't consent to it. Also, any form of romance has to be consensual. There are group chats from the fraternity and other people exposing how the woman victim was mistreated and violated. There should be no justification for the rape of the woman. Some males want to impress other men to spread misogynistic views and rape culture. Rape culture is not just about rape. It is about the lie that men are entitled to every woman's attention, it is the lie that saying slurs and stereotypes about women is great, and women's autonomy must be subordinate to a male's privilege. No one should go along with manosphere nonsense and rape culture. 57 men was in a chat bragging about the mistreatment of a woman. That is why people can't be silent. Any person should be active to protect human lives, report crimes, stand up for victims of rape (who are women, men, children, and all people of all backgrounds). Predators desire human exploitation, control, evil, and anti-human behavior. The Cornell 7 story proves once again that morality matters, integrity matters, and justice matters too. No one should tolerate rape, abuse, harassment, respectability politics, and other evils that violate human autonomy. 

Pete Hegseth is the epitome of bigotry, selfish mediocrity, and a person not qualified to be the Defense Secretary. When a liar like Hegseth said that diversity is not part of our strength, he is completely ignorant of history and truth. There were diverse men and women of every color that took part in the eradication of Nazism in Europe throughout World War II. There was a diversity of men and women of every color and background who came together to work in charities, help victims of natural disasters, and help to improve the lives of humanity in enumerable ways. Hegseth fired qualified women and black people plus other persons of color without any legitimate reason and stalled promotions of these people too. This liar said that he wants no DEI when DEI was established to promote equality not a nefarious system of undue privilege. He loves to use slurs, but he has been accused of sexual assault. Hegseth has banned hundreds of library book, even May Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This is blatant censorship, but MAGA hypocrites lecture us on free speech. We express outrage that this person Trump and his minion Hegseth run wild over the world promoting illegal war, murder in the Caribbean, and support of a far-right Netanyahu. Therefore, we want justice and a pure unadulterated mentality of diversity, truth, honor, and integrity.

Trump has criticized regulation of A.I. technology after meeting with technology oligarchs. He met with Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Gerg Brockman, House Speaker Mike Johnson and other people. He once hosted the leaders of Nvidia, Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and other technology companies for lunch at the White House. This took place in Tuesday. Trump wanted the industry to regulate itself and present a "voluntary" accord with no enforcement mechanism. This is a recipe for disaster, because you need some legitimate government regulation to handle the systems of A.I. and the economy in general. Trump is in league with laissez faire capitalism wherefore the economic is controlled mainly by the oligarchy. Trump believes in self-regulation and some regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, and that's about it. Trump met in his lunch with four of the 10 richest people in the world. Musk is worth almost one trillion dollars. A.I. without regulation can ruin jobs and use massive resources and electricity used to create power data centers that harm our water supplies.

The New York Times reported that GOP's Ken Paxton said that Trump has caused his poll numbers to go down in his race against the Democrat Talarico. Many GOP candidates play defense in red states. Texas is known as a ruby red state, but that Senate race is up for grabs, because human beings are tired of high gas prices, an illegal war in Iran, and the affordability crisis (when people struggle to pay for things and food banks are fighting hard to provide suffering people food and water, which we all need to fundamentally survive in this world). Trump is now traveling to red areas to trying to gain votes, but battleground states are in play too. Many Republicans are stuck with Trump, because they voted with Trump on tariffs, on tax law that benefits for the super wealthy, and other reactionary policies. We know which vision works. It is a vision that focuses on morality and that morality and integrity deals with universal health care, voting rights for all Americans who are 18 or older, equality, justice, immigrant rights, black liberation, our civil liberties plus our civil rights strengthened, and seeing a better democratic society where diversity is totally our strength (despite what Hegseth has to say). 

By Timothy

Brain Research.

 

 

Today is the Birthday of the late Brother Donny Hathaway. He was a soul singer, keyboardist, songwriter, backing vocalist, and arranger. He was one of the greatest musicians of all time, and he influenced all musicians directly or indirectly in the 21st century. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was raised by his grandmother, Martha Pitts, known as Martha Crumwell. They lived in the Car Square housing project of St. Louis Missouri. Hathaway started to sing in the church choir with her grandmother, a professional gospel singer, at the age of three. He studied the piano too. He graduated from Vashon High School in 1963. Hathaway then studied music on a fine arts scholarship at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He had a roommate and drummer Ric Powell, who launched Donn's musical career as a member of The Ric Powell Trio. Donny and Ric left Howard and worked in the music business. Hathaway worked in Curtis Mayfield's Curtom Records in Chicago. He was songwriter, session, musician, and producer for Curtis Curtom Records in Chicago. He did the arrangements for hits by the Unifics (Court of Love and The Beginning of My End). He worked with the Staple Singer, Jerry Butler, Aretha Franklin, The Impressions, and Curtis Mayfield himself. The Ghetto, Pt. 1 was his first single. Everything is Everything is his first critically acclaimed LP which was co-produced with Ric Powell and he did the arranging of all the cuts. His 2nd LP was Donny Hathaway with pop, soul, and gospel songs. His third album was Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. It was an album with duets with former Harvard University associate and label mate, Roberta Flack. He sang back up on her song Killing Me Softly with His Song. Where is the Love was a hit among Hathaway and Flack. It was written by Ralph MacDonald. Live was his album that was great too. Hathaway had the song of This Christmas which was released in 1970 being the standard in holiday songs. Extension of a Man was his final album in 1973. Someday We'll All Be Free was his classic single. The Closer I Get to You was his duet with Robert Flack in 1978. He loved his wife, Eulaulah Vann. He had two daughters of Lalah Hathaway and Kenya Can'Libra Hathaway. Both of her daughters are professional singers. Both of them graduated from the Berklee College of Music. Donny Hathaway was an icon of music being one of the greatest and influential singers of all time. Alicia Keys, Aaliyah, Common, Geroge Benson were inspired by him. 

Rest in Power Brother Donny Hathaway. 

 

Pete Hegseth is the epitome of bigotry, selfish mediocrity, and a person not qualified to be the Defense Secretary. When a liar like Hegseth said that diversity is not part of our strength, he is completely ignorant of history and truth. There were diverse men and women of every color that took part in the eradication of Nazism in Europe throughout World War II. There was a diversity of men and women of every color and background who came together to work in charities, help victims of natural disasters, and help to improve the lives of humanity in enumerable ways. Hegseth fired qualified women and black people plus other persons of color without any legitimate reason and stalled promotions of these people too. This liar said that he wants no DEI when DEI was established to promote quality not a nefarious system of undue privilege. He loves to use slurs, but he has been accuses of sexual assault. Hegseth has banned hundreds of library book, even May Angelou's autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This is blatant censorship, but MAGA hypocrites lecture us on free speech. We express outrage that this person Trump and his minion Hegseth runs wild over the world promoting illegal war, murder in the Caribbean, and support of a far-right Netanyahu. Therefore, we want justice and a pure unadulterated mentality of diversity, truth, honor, and integrity. 

These Black history walking tours are worth your time.

 

 

These Black history walking tours are worth your time

Information about Our Lives.

The Supreme Court made the bad decision to expand the Homeland Security database to possibly purge voter rolls as the midterm 2026 elections are coming up. This happened on September 25, 2026. This database has information on citizens and noncitizens. The March 2025 Trump executive order wants to purge state voter rolls. This is illegal and immoral, as the truth is that only state and local governments have the power to control election services. The Supreme Court is dominated by a far-right majority. The 1935 Social Security Act and the Privacy Act of 1974 were created to ban formal or de facto databanks or centralized federal information systems built from sensitive personal data. The head of the Department of Homeland Security is Markwayne Mullin. There is no massive voter fraud, and it is against federal law for non-citizens to vote. Yet, Trump wants to expand the SAVE program, or Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlement. Trump has expanded SAVE to include natural-born citizens' records, access Social Security Administration Information, and allow state plus local officials to have bulk searches, rather than only individual checks. The problem is that citizens can be purged by the changing Social Security records. Trump is doing this voter suppression plan because his popularity is at record lows, the Iranian war is very unpopular, and he desires an authoritarian system in American society. We have to fight for our rights. 

The new A Different World Series just recently took place. It is a show with many of the previous A Different World actors and actresses, like Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Hardison, Aja Sanders, Karen Malina White, Jenifer Lewis, Dawnn Lewis, Glynn Turman, Jada Pinkett Smith, Cree Summer, Darryl M. Bell, and other people. This show has a new generation of mostly Generation Z actors and actresses like Maleah Joi Moon, Alijah Kai, Cornell Young IV, Jordan Aaron Hall, Kennedi Reece, Chibuikem Uche, and Elijah J. Roberts. The new show was shown on Netflix for the first on September 24, 2026. The first season has 10 episodes filled with discussions of cultural issues, romance, marriage issues, and Brandy performing the theme song of the show. The show relates to both the younger and older generations. The original A Different World were made up of young Baby Boomers and older Generation X members. We, who are older Millennials, saw A Different World when we were in elementary school and on syndication when we were in middle and high school. The new A Different World is filled with a younger generation who wants to establish their own legacies as black people. HBCU culture is one of the foundations of Black Excellence. We have either been to an HBCU as a student, know someone who was educated at an HBCU, researched information about an HBCU, or visited one.

A U.S. ambassador said Trump offered to sell China American arms. Chinese Premier Xi has the upper hand, because Trump is naive enough to try to praise Xi and offer him goods when Xi wants nothing more than global hegemony. Many MAGA bigots make no distinction between most Chinese people who want freedom and justice and the authoritarian regime of Xi. Many phony "progressives" praise all things in the CCP while they omit Xi's massive censorship of the Internet, oppression against the mostly Uyghur people, and their suppression of democratic freedoms in many circumstances. China provides intelligence to Iran, causing Iran to kill American soldiers. Xi is an ally of Putin, who is a murderous war criminal harming the Ukrainian people. Xi is an authoritarian, but he is a very smart person who is playing Trump like a fiddle. Arms sales are part of foreign policy and have consequences for America and its allies. History and life experience document that decades of private equity, hedge funds, asset stripping, speculation, derivatives, crypto, cartels, and oligopolies with falling standards of living won't work. We need investments, industrialization in the right way (with enviornmental protections and labor rights maintained), living wages, universal health care, fair treatment, equality, and justice to make a true path towards human liberation.

Jack Smith gave his testimony to Congress about his past criminal prosecutions of Trump. He spoke before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He spoke about the necessity of his actions and promoting the rule of law. He talked about the men and women who worked for him in sacrificing their time to research the facts. The Republicans were openly hostile to Smith, because they have more of a concern to defend a fascist in the White House than truth and justice. The lie from Trump is that Jack Smith promoted a vindictive vendetta against Trump. The reality is that Trump agitated the January 6th terrorist attack that harmed people and nearly overthrew the American government back in 2021. Jack Smith testified under oath while he was in Capitol Hill. Smith said that the Trump led Justice Department's decision to fire members of his staff as illegal. Republican Schmitt falsely accused Smith of something and Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota refuted Schmitt. Therefore, Jack Smith did his duty and responded to his critics with conviction.

One great point is that we should be consistent. No one has to reinvent the wheel, but there are certain things that people should do to improve their minds and health. Health relates to the cells too. The mitochondria in the cell help to produce energy and convert food into cellular energy that helps powers the body. Large corporations (which includes tobacco companies) fund ultra processed foods and other things for profit, not for the benefit of human beings collectively. We know that the radiation, ultra processed foods, chronic sitting, poor sleep, and massive stress damages mitochondria which increase the risks of illnesses and diseases. Now, about 50 percent of American adults have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes. This was unheard of decades ago. Lawsuits from people accusing Ozempic products of causing blindness should tell us that health growth never relies on cutting corners. It has to be done by consistent hard work without quitting. That is why constant walking for life, resistance training, cardio, sprinting, eating whole quality foods, reading, getting occupied in your hobbies, developing social connections with fellow human beings, getting that sunlight, and having quality sleep will make a difference. Even walking 10 minutes after eating food can lower blood glucose responses. Walking all the time every day stabilizes glucose levels along with exercise. People have to get their biomarkers checked out, like fasting glucose, triglycerides, HDL cholesterol, blood pressure, and HbA1c. Slowing down the aging process is about maintaining our telomeres. Folks should never give up. Ernestine Shepherd is in her 80s, in incredible shape who started her health routine journey in her 50s. That should tell everyone that God is merciful to allow us to get that sacrosanct wisdom to improve ourselves.

By Timothy

Meet the historic all-Black surgery team at Johns Hopkins.

 Meet the historic all-Black surgery team at Johns Hopkins