Year: 2021

Coronavirus Report: December 27, 2021

Through point-of-sale marketing, the tobacco industry manipulates retail environments to increase sales and tobacco use. The tobacco industry spends about $9.5 billion a year to market its products through-out the United States, and approximately $614.2 million of that budget is spent in Florida.1 Strategies that restrict advertising, limit the number of retailers in neighborhoods, and prohibit price discounting can help reduce tobacco use and its negative health outcomes.2

Time for A Truth Serum in America in 2022

     For Broward County, the Black cultural oasis is inarguably the Sistrunk Boulevard community. The Sistrunk Business Corridor (Sistrunk Blvd) is named after Broward County’s first Black physician, Dr. James Sistrunk, born in 1891. To his credit, he persevered through the Jim Crow era and garnered an M.D. degree. 

Everything has purpose. Everything has a place. Everything has a unique energy. Everything functions as it is designed to. Although all of these statements are true, and most people are familiar with the idea, we don’t always apply the concept to our lives and our interactions with people. It is obvious that we do not drink sea water when we are thirsty. Although it is water, we know that underneath it contains a makeup that is toxic to the body when ingested in large quantities.

     Right-wing outlets continue their war against critical race theory and “The 1619 Project” creator and New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones. After a recent appearance on MSNBC’s Meet the Press, outlets ran stories claiming Jones said she wasn’t an educator or that she didn’t think parents should have a say in their children’s education.  

The Little Rock-based institution was awarded a $2.5 million endowment, marking the largest individual gift the school has received in its 134-year history. The donation—which was given by an anonymous donor—will help fund Philander Smith College’s Generational Access and Affordability Pro-gram (GAAP). The initiative is designed to eradicate socio-economic barriers that impact access to higher education. The program aims to take a holistic approach to addressing the individual needs of students, so they don’t have to rely on student loans to advance their education. Research shows HBCU students are disproportionately affected by loan debt burdens.

 Americans have come a long way to secure a distinct place into the mainstream of American life. It is only fair to ask what effect, if any, the New Deal had during President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s era to secure rights for the Blacks during the hard ti9mes of the 1930s and beyond. Judges from the today’s standards, there is much we can criticize about the New Deal/Roosevelt era. It never ceased the tremendous injustices that African Americans had to suffer daily.   

The Dolphins’ weekly release for this week’s game at the Tennessee Titans is now available online in a bookmarked PDF format.

     These three voices – Dr. Traci Baxley, Palm Beach County Schools Superintendent Mike Burke, and Palm Beach County Community Remembrance Project Committee Founder and Vice Mayor Gregg Weiss — will share their work, through the lens of Dr. King’s vision, at the museum’s first signature event of 2022.