Author: Carma Henry

     At 95-years old, she grew up in the same house as family members who’d survived slavery, including her great-grandmother, Rachel McGruder. Her great-grandfather, Charles McGruder, had also been enslaved.

 Sitting inside an office at PGA TOUR headquarters in Ponte Verde, Florida, and preparing to remember what would have been his father’s 100th birthday on June 2, Sifford recounted how much his dad loved golf.

Now in its third year, The HistoryMakers Faculty Innovations in Pedagogy  and Teaching Fellowship is designed  to foster classroom innovation and teaching, and to diversity curricula while furthering student learning and research skills during the upcoming academic year. Award recipients will receive a $7,500 award and the opportunity to demonstrate how faculty can creatively incorporate The HistoryMakers Digital Archive into a semester course and syllabus.

POWELL Funeral services for the late Willie Powell, Sr. – 65 were held May 28 at Harris Chapel United Methodist Church.

BRODIE Funeral services for the late Sharon Belinda Brodie – 55 were held May 28 at Roy Mizell & Kurtz Worship Center. GONGS Funeral services for…

“I knew you were coming for me”

     Hosted by Dallas businessman Willis Johnson of JBJ Management, Lightfoot, who is an attorney serving her first term as the 56th mayor of the third largest city (by rank and population) in the country, touted a record that she said proves she deserves another term.

 “The bipartisan infrastructure provides resources for our communities. There are matching grants and forgivable loans, which means more of our communities have an opportunity to compete for these grants,” said U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan. “We are also making $50 million available for technical assistance to help our communities to become more competitive. I’ve written a letter to every governor in the country outlining the criteria by which we believe those resources should be spent.”

     We should not tolerate the slightest encouragement for that kind of catastrophe from political leaders, including the former commander in chief. And we should not tolerate continued inaction on the violence that stalks our streets and schools.

     At the Dallas Police Department/Korean American Safety Town Hall Meeting on Monday night, you didn’t have to speak the language to know the feelings that were dominating the room. These citizens gathered in the wake of three racially motivated shootings at Korean-owned and operated businesses and they wanted answers.