Author: Carma Henry

     Hundreds of Coral Springs residents and surrounding community members “traveled the world” without leaving town at the Coral Springs Worldfest Celebration that was held on Sunday, March 6 on the City Hall Lawn.

Shatangela has been presented with a great opportunity on becoming the new dance director of Florida Memorial University.

AHF continues pressure on Disney to speak out against “Don’t Say Gay” Bill

     At one time during my long media career, I was hired as the news and public affairs director of a radio station in Florida’s capitol city and subsequently hired as the Executive Producer of “Vibrations”, a highly rated television news and talk show that ran for 15 years in Tallahassee.

    The winds of change are blowing in Florida, Georgia and the nation. People of Color and progressives must consciously engage with servant leaders who vie for public office.  We must commit our hearts and heads through a consensus process that sets goals and objectives for our representation.

Women’s History Month began as a single day in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia in March, and in October in Canada. March 8 is International Women’s Day, which has been honored in some form or another since 1911. Women’s History Week was first observed in the 1970s by local organizations and towns.

In honor of National Reading Month, here are five books you and your kids and teens should be reading this month, and these books just so happen to be written by Black authors too! 

     The message she wants to leave with anyone who learns of her story is, “Focus on what you believe in and follow your dreams.  You don’t need a man to make you successful. Dream big, don’t look back. As long as you are independent you can be successful regardless of color.”

     Autherine Lucy Foster, who earned a bachelor’s degree in English from historically Black Miles College in 1952, and whose legal battle with the University of Alabama concluded two years after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, has died at 92.

Professional Apprenticeship Career Tract (PACT) Seaman Justin Estupinan, from Pompano Beach, Fla., serves as a signalman aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG 57) during a replenishment-at-sea with the Supply-class fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE-6), Feb. 26, 2022.