Month: September 2014

The Back to School with the HistoryMakers program invites Black American trailblazers from all professional fields and trades to share their stories at schools around the nation. The visits are intended to boost academic achievement by offering students, particularly Black students, real life examples of the possibilities education can afford.

The Florida Department of Health in Broward County (DOH-Broward) today issued a mosquito-borne illness advisory after confirming a locally acquired case of Chikungunya Fever, a disease spread by bites from infected mosquitoes. If a person is infected and bitten by a mosquito, that mosquito may later spread the infection by biting another person.