The Faith Hour with Harriet Cammock

A Professor of African and Latin American studies who portrayed herself as Black has now revealed she has been lying. Jessica A. Krug, an Associate Professor at George Washington University, has written extensively about Africa, Latin America, the diaspora and identity, all while claiming her own Black and Latina heritage. But in an article published on Medium.com on Thursday, Krug revealed the truth: She is white.

Nearly 60 per cent of the cases of missing and Murdered Native-American women are homicides, and 31 per cent involve girls 18 and younger, according to data analyzed by the Sovereign Bodies Institute. Nearly three-quarters of the cases had victims who were living within the foster care system when they went missing. The vast majority of cases in the U.S. remain unsolved. Advocates point to the lack of comprehensive state and federal data on missing and murdered Native Americans, as well as a general lack of awareness and poor record-keeping as reasons why so many cases go cold. Adverse relationships with non-Native law enforcement agencies only exacerbates the problem, and many worry that Native American persons will continue to suffer from these oversights.

According to a recent study in the journal Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences,the planet could see a greater temperature increase in the next 50 years than it did in the last 6,000 years combined.. By 2070, scientists predict that the kind of extremely hot zones, like in the Sahara (that now cover less than 1 per cent of the earth’s land surface), could cover nearly a fifth of the land. This shift in temperatures could place one of every three people outside the ‘climate niche’ where humans have thrived for thousands of years. While many people will stay and suffer through the heat, hunger, and ensuing political chaos, others will be forced to migrate.

A record- breaking 197 people in Maricopa County, Arizona died from heat-related causes in 2019 alone. So far in 2020, the Maricopa County Health Department has confirmed 30 heat-related deaths, while investigating an additional 243. Over the past 30 years, heat has accounted for more fatalities on average than any other weather-related disaster in the U.S., according to the National Weather Service. And although these deaths are more likely to occur in desert cities, the warming climate that helps drive them will likely only get worse.

In an age of uncertainty, after race wars, and the shooting of unarmed protesters, the March on Washington, a Republican convention that looked the haves and the haves not, we find ourselves asking, what’s coming?

The Rev. Stricjavvar ‘Strick’ Strickland, of Kalamazoo’s Second Baptist Church, has been charged with 11 felonies connected to alleged incidents spanning from August 1,2015 to August 31,2018, according to a probable cause affidavit filed last week in Kalamazoo District Court. The Rev. Is accused of sexually assaulting four male victims between the ages of 15 and 17 by paying said boys to have sex with his wife while he watched on.

Giancarlo Granda, a business parameter of Jerry Falwell Jr, aka ‘the poolboy’ has come forward to say he had a years long relationship involving Falwell’s wife and the evangelical leader himself. Jerry Falwell, Jr is a staunch Trump supporter, and, until today, was the President of Liberty University, a private evangelical Christian university in Lynchburg, Virginia. Mr. Falwell is a staunch critic of gay marriage, and some go as far as calling him a racist bigot in line with his father, Jerry Falwell Snr., who was the Founder of Liberty University. But is this heated controversy really about the tangled sexual relationship between the Falwells and their ‘business partner’? Or is it about the hypocrisy of a conservative President who regularly condemns homosexuality vis-a-vis their support of a President whose administration denies rights to LGBTQ persons while they themselves participate in illicit, homosexual affairs? In this episode, hear a caller talks about his experience in being solicited for sex by a powerful white male to have a ‘mandingo party’ and have sex with his wife while he watches-

There is a lot going on. Political leaders are absent of leadership, homelessness is on the rise across the country as evictions post-pandemic, take effect, no job prospects for many, and we learned this week that the postal service transports live chicks for rural agricultural producers, and have been doing so since 1918. But they want to shutter the postal service. Will Jesus, please take the wheel in America?

The ERA, initially drafted by women’s suffragist, Alice Paul in 1923, was finally approved by a Democratic-led congress in 1972. But the Amendment, which was first written only two years after white women were granted the right to vote, fell just three states shy of being officially added to the Constitution- and millions of Black women, women of color and working class women did not get the protections afforded by the Amendment. Today, the ERA is just one state away from being added to the Constitution. But with the workplace, property, and divorce rights of millions of women in the hands of a Republican-led Senate, will the ERA finally be enshrined in the Constitution once and for all?

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. And imitation of Black women’s style is exactly what one sees when they open their Instagram app, or turn on their TV to the latest music video, or flip through a magazine. But being placed on such a high pedestal of admiration is dangerous, because when you deify someone, you strip them of their humanity- and strip yourself of any obligation to respect that person for the human being they are. In this episode of Down To Earth, we will discuss how the so-called ‘appreciation’ of Black Women’s style treads awfully close to ‘appropriation’ of Black Women’s style, and outright dismissal of Black women’s humanity.