Category: Features

Local officials view tourism as a critical economic sector because it generates employment and directs financial benefits straight to indigenous communities. A prime example is the Nkhosi Livingstone Lodge and Spa, located in Mukuni Village, one of Zambia’s oldest and most historic communities. To ensure tourism revenue directly benefits the immediate community, the company prioritizes tangible economic partnerships. For example, it sources handcrafted furnishings directly from local village artisans and incorporates locally grown ingredients throughout its dining experiences. Travel significantly impacts local communities by blending culture, adventure, wildlife, heritage, and business.

The mission of the Multipurpose Center is to serve and uplift the community through services and outreach initiatives. It is designed to foster a thriving, resilient, and unified Historic Southside community in the city of Fort Worth—a place where every individual feels valued, safe, and empowered. The Center is designed as a 12,000-square-foot, two-story facility featuring space for a basketball court; a walking track commemorating the historic 2.5-mile walk of Deaconess Dr. Opal Lee; a chapel; banquet and meeting spaces; training classrooms; a commercial kitchen; offices; a health clinic; referral services; and a spacious outdoor pavilion for community gatherings. 

Our ancestors’ laurels are not for us to merely romanticize. We are not to sit docile nor wallow in the nostalgia of their endeavors. It is not for us to misappropriate their progress as permission to pause the fight. It is time for this administration and all following to heed to the certitude that though our bodies are no longer the commodity up for auction, they do not possess the power to make our rights the replacement. Nevertheless, we continue demanding access to exercise the same liberties as the corporations riddled with greed, the guns that tear our schools apart, and a music industry that promotes our pain instead of our power. Will we continue to hypothesize and theorize our perils or will we leverage our forerunners’ advancements for propulsion into a new national order?

God reminds us that weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. As an elected official in Kansas’ largest city, representing nearly 70,000 constituents, many of whom live in communities facing economic disinvestment, environmental injustice, and poverty, I often think not only about where I find hope, but also about how I can help make that hope available to the people I represent.

Courageous. Innovator. Trailblazer. First of many. The latter are just a few of the ways people describe Bishop Carolyn Tyler Guidry. But if you knew her and were loved by her, she was “Mother Bishop.” On Sunday, August 23, 2026, St. John AME Church in Fairburn, Georgia, under Pastor Greta Fowler, renamed its fellowship hall in honor of Mother Bishop Carolyn Tyler Guidry. Surrounded by Bishop Tyler Guidry’s family, Pastor Fowler and Bishop Tyler Guidry’s son, the Reverend Dr. Timothy Tyler, cut the ribbon in rededication of the fellowship hall.

GracePoint Senior Living Community is planned to include 42 units of affordable housing for seniors ages 62 and older. The units will serve seniors with incomes at or below 50% of the Area Median Income. For Turner, this project is about more than building apartments. It is about using church property to help meet a real need in the community. For years, the land represented possibility. Now, it is moving closer to becoming something that can serve seniors and the community in a meaningful way.