Author: Carma Henry

U.S. Navy Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman Joseph Lyons, from Palm Beach, Fla., left, and Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Cing Dim, from Columbus, Ohio, man the Aviation Data Management and Control System aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz Strike Group is underway preparing for an upcoming deployment

     Local Broward County businesses have been paid over $11 million on Broward County’s MAP Broward (Mobility Advancement Program) funded projects. MAP Broward funding was approved in November 2018 by Broward County voters as a 1% surtax for 30 years. Tasked with improving transportation in Broward County, MAP Broward is estimated to generate $355 million annually for 27 more years with a projected $53 million annually in project opportunities for local certified Broward County businesses. 

     An HBCU president has accused deputies of targeting a bus holding university students after they searched the vehicle during a traffic stop.

     A Texas police officer will walk free after being found not guilty in the 2019 shooting death of a Black woman.

     Regardless of the medical benefit to an employee, an employee may be at risk of loss of employment. For example, although the use of medical marijuana for chronic pain improves an employee’s ability to do their job, an employer with a strict drug-free workplace rule may have no choice but to terminate that worker for violating company policy.

      FMU is proud to be a participating school in Venture Miami’s STEM Scholarship Program, a partnership announced on Wednesday, October 12, by Miami Mayor Francis X. Suarez. Venture Miami is an office within the City of Miami focused on improving the City’s standard of living through the creation of jobs, support for innovation, increase in wealth, and an overall improvement in the quality of life.

       While not getting involved emotionally to the FAMU search for a new athletic director, I watched from the sideline.  I was not a member of the committee, not a decision-maker, so trying to interject into the process was fruitless.  For the most part, it was better for me as I knew several of the candidates and it was better for me to wait for an outcome.

     According to Saudi Arabia, legal code women have virtually no rights whatsoever and can be executed by stoning for committing adultery. While in Iranian women can run for any political office.

FOREMAN Funeral services for the JR Forman – 80 were held October 8 at James C. Boyd’s Memorial Chapel with Rev. Williams Ramsey officiating. HENRY- Not…

GREENLEAF Funeral services for the late Dr. Janie G. Greenleaaf – 78 were held October 9th at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel. HEARN Funeral services for the…