Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

     This past Saturday, September 24th, Supa Cindy launched he very first Supa Cindy Concert at City of North Miami Beach Senator Gwen Margolis Amphitheater. Her concert consisted of a large vendor pool with vendors ranging from a line of food-trucks lined up outside the park, to tents serving natural juice beverages; to vendors selling high-end jewelry, waist-beads and custom handbags. The event also consisted of multiple local independent artist performances, a Special Hip-Hop Dance Number by the Miami-Dade Hip-Hop Kids, and Headliner Performance by Miami Native Rapper BallGreezy.

     One glance at the photo above evokes an image of a compact, powerful and aggressive bowling ball of a runner who, at 5’ 11”, 205 pounds, doesn’t shy away from contact. According to his head coach, Travis Harden of the Stranahan Dragons, that is an apt description of Sincere “Han Boy“ Rodriguez, who two weeks ago ran for 110 yards and 2 rushing touchdowns on 15 carries in a difficult, hard fought loss to  the Plantation Colonels.

Dubbed “The Wealth Whisperer,” self-made millionaire and wealth building coach Alicia Holmes has built a successful career empowering women to reach their best selves through wealth bootcamps – designed to close the wealth gap and set women on the path to financial independence.

      Florida A&M University (FAMU) is among 19 institutions of higher education as “Fulbright Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Institutional Leaders” recognized by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) for their noteworthy engagement with the Fulbright Program during the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years.

     Among the 200 employers registered to recruit at the Fall 2022 Career and Internship Expo were global medical technology corporations such as Medtronic, retailers such as Target, cosmetic giant, Estee Lauder, financial institutions such as Credit Suisse, and federal, state, county and municipal government agencies seeking to hire students at a time when many vacancies are going unfilled. 

      Research has found that 70 million people in the United States have criminal records. Of that number, 63 percent are no longer in jail, on probation, or on parole, yet roughly 27 percent of these ex-offenders remain unemployed due to their criminal records. This disproportionate statistic to the overall unemployment rate confirms the realization that the challenge of finding work for the formally incarcerated can be a daunting task.