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Asylum as a human right

July 31, 2019 Carma Henry 0

Asylum as a human right […]

In other words, if you allow someone to mistreat you all the time, and you’re crying and praying that one day, they will stop and beg your forgiveness, then you have just fallen for the okey-doke. […]

Growing the Voices of Our Future

July 25, 2019 Carma Henry 0

The Westside Gazette Newspaper is honored to feature these editorial contributions made by local students. […]

CORAL SEA

July 25, 2019 Carma Henry 0

Yeoman 3rd Class Dawnmarie Laing, left, from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, sings in the choir group during a Protestant Worship Service aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20). […]

Senior Elected to Hall of Fame

July 25, 2019 Carma Henry 0

Held on March 11, the 2019 Hall of Fame Election Committee, chaired by Mayor Mark Bogen, met at the Aging & Disability Resource Center, to elect the Hall of Fame newest Members. They include Barbara (Bobbi) Arnold, Hollywood; Beauregard Cummings, Fort Lauderdale; Gail Gannotta, Pompano Beach; Ruby Hutson, Lauderdale Lakes; Jean Merget, Fort Lauderdale; Art Schmall, Margate; Florie Scott, Lauderdale Lakes; Carl Shechter, Pembroke Pines; Harold Smith, Davie; and Aline Zucker, Cooper City. […]

Meet the two Black founders of Luxury Line, BRIM

July 25, 2019 Carma Henry 0

The company was launched in 2017 – and was a huge leap of faith for Archie and Taj. Both founders (who graduated from HBCUs and pledge Alpha Phi Alpha) hit quite a few roadblocks when trying to find their true paths in life. […]

Famed Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump Endorses Sam Ings or Mayor of Orlando

July 24, 2019 Carma Henry 0

Civil Rights Attorney Benjamin Crump boldly announced that he stands with Commissioner Samuel B. Ings for the next Mayor of Orlando. Attorney Crump, who is best known for fighting high-profile cases involving police shootings of African Americans, spoke at the 2019 summer conference of National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials (NBC-LEO) held last week in Jackson, Mississippi. […]

Fort Liquordale? City ranks among the booziest travel destinations in the world, according to social media

July 23, 2019 Carma Henry 0

City ranks among the booziest travel destinations in the world, according to social media […]

How About We All Go Back To Voting?

July 18, 2019 Carma Henry 0

How About We All Go Back To Voting? […]

First Black Florida Trooper

July 18, 2019 Carma Henry 0

Alphonso Lofton joined the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) in 1970 after witnessing an FHP trooper investigating a hit-and-run accident, becoming the Patrol’s first African American trooper. After graduation from the FHP academy, he was assigned to Field Operations in Miami’s Troop E. In 1973, he was promoted to Traffic Homicide Investigator, and he was assigned as a recruiter in 1981. He was appointed to FHP’s Equal Employment Opportunity Committee to recruit more African Americans into the Florida Highway Patrol. […]