Author: Carma Henry

     “In the summer of 1982, three nurses – Bernice Edwards, Susie Forehand, and Mercerdese Clark along with approximately 60 other nurses – met with the intent of organizing a Black Professional Nurses group as no such group existed in Orlando. Following two interest meetings, the group organized as Black Nurses Association with Mercerdese Clark serving as the chapter’s first president,” says Bernice Edwards.

     This past Friday September 23rd, The Lauderhill Performing Arts Center (LPAC) took on a whole new approach to Friday night date night. Welcoming a local Lauderhill event created by Tanisha “Tj” Hope of “Tj Hope Presents” and Hosted by hometown Comedian Chris Priester called Eargasm; as they celebrated 5 years of Erotic Poetry, Arts and Comedy, LPAC was in for a night unlike anything they’ve ever had at their performing arts facility. Comedian Chris Priester even brought in his 51st birthday celebration as part of the evening’s festivities. Bringing his very own curated lineup of comedians to light up the stage in between poetic performances.

     This past Monday September 26, The Miami Heat hosted Media Day at the FTX Arena where they invited over 20 local Media outlets to come out and speak with The Team Roster about their hopes for the upcoming season, give a chance for the players to connect with mass audiences across diverse platforms, as well as create content for both the league and athlete fans. The day was filled with non-stop action and one of our very own Gazette writers Press Room questions has even gone viral concerning Jimmy Butler new locs hair-do that has the internet in a frenzy. 

     More than a year after a Florida law began allowing college athletes to make endorsement money, some athletics officials say a key piece of the law needs a second look to preserve schools’ recruiting advantages.

      Lawyers representing around 30 immigrants recently flown to Martha’s Vineyard from Texas asked the Massachusetts attorney general and the federal government in letters Saturday to open criminal investigations into what they described as a “political stunt.”

The 17-year-old child trafficking victim, who murdered her rapist and tormentor, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury for stabbing to death Zachary Brooks, 37, who authorities admitted raped her multiple times in 2020 when she was 15.

     Puerto Rico was with-out power as nightfall approached Sunday amid catastrophic flooding, hurricane force winds and the destruction of at least one bridge, five years nearly to the day after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.

We’re still having issues with Covid. We’re still working hard on it,  but the pandemic has ended,” Biden said. Covid-19 is still classified as a Public Health Emergency by the US government, and the World Health Organization considers it a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

     It is reported that there are now two Dr. Cartwrights working in the Dirty South, perhaps trying to create a Ponderosa, one in Broward and another in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Sources are telling Detective Traceit that Deputy Superintendent of School Operations, Judy Marte, called in a few favors in her old stomping ground to get Dr. Carl Cartwright hired as a Director in the School Operations division in Miami-Dade County as a favor to her boss, Dr. Vickie Cartwright. Carl Cartwright is the husband of Super Cartwright.

     Seeing what the predominately Black city was going through, you would think leaders would be sympathetic. Not in the case of Gov. Tate Reeves. As NBC WLBT 3 notes, Reeves could not have been happier to be out of the capital while speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony in Hattiesburg.