January 2024 - The Westside Gazette

Captivating African American Motivational Speaker/Author to kick off “The Key to Unlock Happiness” Nationwide tour In Fort Lauderdale, Florida

January 31, 2024 Carma Henry 0

Donald E. Archey, a luminary in the motivational speaking and authorship realms, is poised to illuminate the nation with his latest literary gem, ‘’The Key to Unlock Happiness’. The grand revelation is scheduled for Saturday February 17, 2024, and will start at 4-5 PM with a Meet and Greet the Author along with New Hope Baptist Church Youth will speak about Black History and the event will climax at 5:30 PM with a live recording and streaming nationwide at the historic New Hope Baptist Church 1321 NW 6th ST Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with food severed after the event. […]

Triumph Over Adversity: Journalism Scholars Receive Prestigious PGA TOUR/NNPA Scholarship

January 31, 2024 Carma Henry 0

In a celebration of resilience and determination, Victoria Gisel Montanet and Jasmine Hall, two outstanding journalism majors, were awarded the PGA TOUR/National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) $5,000 scholarship during the NNPA’s 2024 Midwinter Training Conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. […]

Exhausted From the Struggle: An Urgent Call for Safe Spaces for Black Women

January 31, 2024 Carma Henry 0

Based on a report by the National Women’s Law Center, Black women earn 65 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men. And research reveals that regardless of our education or experience, we still earn less than white men, resulting in a staggering loss of more than $840,000 over the course of a 40-year career. […]

President Biden is Fighting a Student Loan Crisis in America

January 31, 2024 Carma Henry 0

President Biden is on a mission of forgiveness for millions of Ameri-cans who cannot get ahead, be-cause of their student debt. Many will argue that if you take out a student loan, you have a responsibility to pay it back. But education is big business, and the interest continues to grow, and many times many Americans need help. […]

The Biden-Harris Administration’s LNG Decision is the Hope Young People Have Been Waiting For

January 31, 2024 Carma Henry 0

One of those oil and gas facilities is the Calcasieu Pass liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal, which has further devastated public health, local livelihoods, and marine wildlife. Last week the Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Energy (DOE) paused the permitting of new LNG projects. The decision stops the gas industry’s plans for the even larger CP2 LNG terminal right next store. […]

The Need for Understanding Never Stops

January 31, 2024 Carma Henry 0

The Need for Understanding Never Stops […]

An Unwinnable Situation led to a Racist Electoral College

January 31, 2024 Carma Henry 0

An Unwinnable Situation led to a Racist Electoral College […]

Ending the Israel-Hamas War–Where Things Stand

January 31, 2024 Carma Henry 0

Track 1 is a Hamas hostage release in exchange for a time-limited cease-fire and Israel’s release of Palestinian prisoners. Hamas is demanding a permanent cease-fire, not simply a pause. A deal that includes the release of some hostages and some prisoners seems most likely. Pres. Biden has sent the CIA director, William Burns, to the Middle East to move the negotiations along. […]

Manufacturing excuses for the inexcusable

January 31, 2024 Carma Henry 0

It shows just how much the world has been changed by the unfiltered immediacy of camera phones and social media that Israeli propaganda seems much clumsier and is clearly less influential than it’s been in the past. […]

Reviving the Concept of Trusteeship as a Stepping-Stone to Peace in the Middle East

January 31, 2024 Carma Henry 0

Like it or not, our world has become so interconnected and interdependent that events that have hitherto been regarded as regional in nature now threaten our well-being everywhere. […]