Every year, the American Library Association and partner organizations observe Banned Books Week to highlight and push back against these threats. This year’s Banned Books Week runs from September 18-24 amidst a wave of book bans and other attempts to restrict what people can learn.
Author: Carma Henry
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
As banks grow larger through mergers and focus on growing online and mobile services, serious concerns emerge on how fair and how accessible banking will be to traditionally underserved Black and Latino communities. In most cases, consumers and small business’s alike view bank branch accessibility and convenience as key to serving their communities.
Not only has he celebrated a milestone birthday this year, but funding from the federal government and a community partnership may help to take the district’s Black-owned bank to the next level.
ANDREWS Funeral services for the late Bernard Andrews – 30 were held September 17th at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel. THOMAS Funeral services for the late Milton…
PENN Funeral services for the late Laydia Sheree Penn were held September 17th at Bethel Baptist Church with Pastor Annette L. Barr, officiating. SHEPHARD Funeral services…
Abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s resilient quest in the fight for Black liberation is being commemorated through the creation of monuments throughout the country. The latest statue honoring the trailblazer has risen in Maryland, WMAR-TV reported.
Dr. Jerutha Victoria Williams Ford was born on July 4, 1932, to the late Paul and late Elizabeth Williams in Fort Lauderdale, Florida where she attended Dillard Elementary, Junior and High School.
Acclaimed pianist Kris Nicholson will provide a free concert to honor the late Fort Lauderdale pioneer and esteemed lifelong educator, Ruth Taylor Giles, who passed on June 13. Nicholson will play at 4 p.m., on October 1, Giles’s 99th birthday.
The Shubert Organization, Inc. officially dedicated and revealed the newly renamed James Earl Jones Theatre (138 West 48th Street), formerly the Cort Theatre, in honor of the iconic multi-award-winning American actor. The dedication ceremony follows a $47 million restoration and expansion of the building.
The government had determined the predominate Black area as the best place for Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), a toxin that increases the rates of various cancers.