Author: Carma Henry

     The Crockett Foundation is thrilled to announce the return of its 4th Annual Golf Tournament on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, at Pembroke Lakes Golf Club in Pembroke Pines. This highly anticipated event brings together community leaders, local businesses, and golf enthusiasts for a day of fun on the green — all in support of the Foundation’s mission to empower young people and strengthen South Florida communities.

     All but one of Florida’s HBCUs are in action this week and those games are here in the Sunshine State. Florida Memorial University in Miami Gardens has a bye week.

   Traffic is once again flowing through Bethune-Cookman University on Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard.

     From the violence plaguing cities like New Orleans and Philadelphia to the white supremacist mass shootings in Charleston and Buffalo, or the police killings of Michael Brown and Tamir Rice, Lee has traveled the country to tell the all-too-familiar story of Black lives cut short by guns.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — It is 62 years later after the death of the four little girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, just weeks after the August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Black student enrollment at Harvard Law School has rebounded. The incoming J.D. Class of 2028 includes 46 Black students, nearly returning to the averages seen between 2020 and 2023.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — After much backroom maneuvering, the final vote on the resolution honoring Kirk was moved from Thursday to Friday, Sept. 18. For members of the Congressional Black Caucus, the vote is in no way a casual action on a boilerplate resolution.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — For more than five years, Dr. Olumuyiwa Bamgbade carried the weight of lies that he should never have borne.

Ensign James Wright, a native of Hollywood, Florida, serves aboard USS Billings, a U.S. Navy warship operating out of Mayport, Florida.

America is in a christless crisis. Not because the Christ of scripture has failed us, but because too many have abandoned Him in favor of the counterfeit christs of the state and of government.