The countdown to the TJ Reddick Bar Association’s 32nd Annual Gala is officially on! With less than one month left until the big event, we are proud to recognize and honor the outstanding achievements of our members who have exemplified leadership, service, and commitment to the legal profession and our community. Please join us in celebrating this year’s distinguished awardees:
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The Power of Prevention conference was hosted by the United Way of Broward County, Commission on Behavioral Health and Drug Prevention in collaboration with Broward Behavioral Health Coalition (BBHC) and Florida Department of Children and Families. They were undergirded by several categories of sponsors, ranging from Diamond and Platinum to Scholarship Sponsors supporting the conference.
High school students, according to research, should be particularly concerned about their ninth grade or freshman year, identified as a critical transition period, which can be especially challenging for 14-year-old Black girls, who face unique obstacles. To address this, Michelle Hollinger, CEO of The Institute for Worthy Living, has created PrepHERation, a seven-week group coaching program designed to equip Black girls with essential tools to thrive in their freshman year.
HBCUs are all too familiar with students who break barriers and rewrite history. This year, Marie Fowler became the oldest student to graduate from Howard University after receiving her doctorate in Divinity at 83 years of age. Last year, around the same time, Florida A&M graduate Tamia Potter became the first Black woman to gain entry into Vanderbilt University’s College of Medicine and Department of Neurological Surgery. No Black woman had ever been accepted as a neurosurgery resident in the college’s 148-year history.
During a nearly two-hour meeting Wednesday, frustrated members of the university’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted to open an investigation into the failed donation and the process that led up to its announcement at a May 4 graduation ceremony.
The longest-running path program for aviation college students, Gateway University was launched in 2008 to partner with top university aviation programs and address the career uncertainty many developing pilots experience when starting out. With one of JetBlue’s largest crew bases at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and numerous destinations served from surrounding airports including Miami and Palm Beach, Broward College is also ideally positioned to help area students study for in-demand careers that allow them to stretch their wings and fly while still maintaining their connection to home.
Recently the Florida Department of Education announced Dr. Clayton Nylund, a teacher at Howard W. Blake High School in Hillsborough County, as one of the five 2025 Teacher of the Year state finalists. The five state finalists were chosen from 74 district teachers of the year. The 2025 Florida Department of Education Teacher of the Year winner will be announced at a gala in Orlando on July 25, 2024.
A new state report shows that 22,409 abortions were reported in Florida during the first four months of 2024. Here are counties with the most abortions. The numbers reflect county residents who had abortions, not necessarily the counties where abortions took place.
In the second similar endorsement in recent days, incoming Senate President Ben Albritton, R-Wauchula, on Monday backed Rep. Randy Fine, R-Brevard County, in a primary contest for an open Senate seat. Fine faces two other Republicans and a Democrat seeking to replace term-limited Sen. Debbie Mayfield, R-Indialantic, in Brevard County’s Senate District 19. Albritton, who will become Senate president after the November elections, is an influential figure who can direct large amounts of money to candidates as chairman of the Florida Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.
A family has hired civil rights representation in the recent death of their loved one, A who was shot and killed Florida police shot and killed a Black U.S. Air Force member Friday (May 3). The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Friday that the officer “reacted in self-defense after he encountered a 23-year-old man armed with a gun.”