Month: August 2020

Local News

Wilson, Hastings Lead Letter Calling on DeSantis to Stop Pressuring Health Directors to Not Advise School Districts

August 26, 2020 Carma Henry 0

       “We strongly fear that preventing health directors from making informed recommendations endangers children, teachers and staff, and high-risk members of our community by limiting the ability of public officials to make fact-based decisions. We understand that numerous health officials have said they were pressured by your administration to not give a formal recommendation about whether to reopen schools,” the letter reads. “Consequently, without guidance, some district officials have said they felt compelled to return to in-person learning despite concerns about the potentially harmful impact on public health.” […]

National News

African American women’s suffrage movement

August 26, 2020 Carma Henry 0

     After the Civil War, women’s rights activists disagreed about whether to support ratification of the 15th Amendment, which provided voting rights regardless of race, but which did not explicitly enfranchise women. The resulting split in the women’s movement marginalized African American women, who nonetheless continued their suffrage activism. By the 1890s, the women’s suffrage movement had become increasingly racist and exclusionary, and African-American women organized separately through local women’s clubs and the National Association of Colored Women. Women won the vote in dozens of states in the 1910s, and African American women became a powerful voting bloc. […]

Local News

MARCH FOR OUR LIVES: THE MARCH FOR CHANGE

August 26, 2020 Carma Henry 0

     The student group March for Our Lives was founded by David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, Jaclyn Corin as well as several other students of the 2018 Stoneman Douglas tragedy. Since its conception, the group has rallied hundreds of thousands around the country with the utmost goal to fight for tighter gun laws. Their efforts included a nationality televised march in Washington, D.C, that landed on the cover of Time Magazine and received the international Children’s Peace Prize from Archbishop Desmond Tutu. […]

Local News

Political commentator and writer Clarence McKee aim to dispel the myth that Obama helped Black America

August 26, 2020 Carma Henry 0

     It is no secret that author Clarence McKee believes President Trump’s policies are far more advantageous  for Black Americans than President Obama’s efforts ever were. “There has been little, if any, criticism of Obama’s shortcomings in terms of the Black community,” he says. He adds that most Black Americans took pride in the fact that a “Black man had been elected president of the United States and that many of “their concerns and issues would be addressed.” He   states that their “high hopes for Obama were unfilled and calls the failure to address those concerns the “dirty little secret not, or rarely discussed.” Despite that record, McKee writes that Obama remains the “darling of the Black political and civil rights establishments and the mainstream media.” […]

Local News

Caribbean Museum Set to Open at the Westfield Broward Mall

August 26, 2020 Carma Henry 0

South Florida and the Caribbean diaspora are gearing up for the opening of the Island SPACE Caribbean Museum, the new site of archives, events, resources, and information that tells the comprehensive story of Caribbean and Caribbean-American societies.  The venue is centrally located in the heart of Broward County at the Westfield Broward Mall, and is set to open during the fourth quarter of 2020. Visitors, partners, and students will enjoy interactive exhibits, informative tours, research facilities, and cultural events in the 1500 square foot museum of history, and the 800 square foot art gallery and event space. […]