Author: Carma Henry

      Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed into law a bill that will essentially change the way Black children are portrayed and described in Florida law.

      South Florida Motorsports (SFM), Miami Dolphins, and the City of Miami Gardens gifted 50 students with tickets to the Formula 1® Miami Grand Prix happening next month. The students were surprised by Miami Gardens’ Mayor, Rodney Harris.

After federal health regulators declared that a bigger number of patients will be able to receive fourth doses of the two messenger RNA Covid-19 vaccines developed by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, more people will be able to have second Covid-19 booster shots. Adults 50 and older who have had three previous mRNA doses are eligible for a second booster if it has been at least four months since the first. Four months after their previous booster, anyone who had two doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccination can receive an extra mRNA dose.

         Based on Disney’s epic animated musical adventure and Edgar Rice Burrough’s Tarzan of the Apes, Tarzan features heart-pumping music by rock legend, Phil Collins, and a book by Tony Award-winning playwright, David Henry Hwang. High-flying excitement and hits, like the Academy Award winning “You’ll Be in My Heart,” as well as “Son of Man” and “Two Worlds,” make Tarzan an unforgettable theatrical experience.

   File this one under “Duh.” Of the more than 1,500 books being banned in public schools across the United States, 467 — or 41 percent — contained main or secondary characters of color; 247, or 22 percent, addressed racism; and 379, or 33 percent, of the books contained LGBTQ+ themes.

  Aviation Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Othniel Terveus, from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) aircraft intermediate maintenance department, inventories supply, April 10, 2022. Ford is underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting carrier qualifications and strike group integration as part of the ship’s tailored basic phase prior to operational deployment.

Due to the presence of the new Omicron subvariant, BA.2, new coronavirus cases are again increasing in half of all states across the US, particularly in the Northeast. The average number of new cases is 31,000, a 2% increase over the last two weeks.

     Congress continues to relentlessly push immigration policies that’ll make Black Americans poorer.

     Hopeful Black folk must realize Judge Brown-Jackson’s rise to the nation’s highest court is not the rising tide that will lift all Black boats. She is just the newest member of the exclusive ‘first Black’ fraternity which exists to promote the illusion of Black progress, power, and racial equality.

Lahteefah “Lah” Parramore, CPA, is a strong force in the entertainment and corporate world, a professional with more than 20 years of experience.  She currently is serving as a Partner in the entertainment industry service line with one of the top business management firms globally.  In the past, working with fortune 500 firms as a bright CPA, she has moved on to manage multi-award-winning music industry artists to win several accolades and awards.