Author: Carma Henry

A call for proposals from “Grassroots Nonprofits” has been issued by Community Foundation of Broward.  Grassroots nonprofits operating in Broward County are eligible for grants of $5,000 to $25,000 as part of the Foundation’s new Small Grants Pilot Program.

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ANTHONY LEON FLAKES 67, Entrepreneur, Son of the late William Flakes and Celia Perry Flakes passed on February 27.

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Coronavirus cases continue to drop sharply across the US. The daily average number of new cases is 44,000; a 57% decrease over the last 2 weeks.

The first Jan. 6 defendant to take his case to trial was found guilty Tuesday of all charges related to his role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

  On Sunday March 6th, 2022, Federal, State, and local elected leaders joined with “Foot Soldiers” of the Civil Rights Movement at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to underscore a heightened commitment to restore and expand voting rights for people of color and marginalized communities in the United States.

On May 25, 2020, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd. Floyd’s killing was captured on video by a teenage bystander, Darnella Frazier. What resulted was worldwide attention on police brutality, the general treatment of Black people in the U.S. and a “racial reckoning” that endured conversation and financial pledges of support toward equal rights.

      The Senate on Monday unanimously passed legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime, in a historic first that comes after more than a century of failed efforts to pass such a measure.

     Ukrainian officials rejected the Kremlin’s unilateral proposal for evacuation corridors for civilians as an unacceptable non-starter. Most of the routes lead to Russia or its staunch ally Belarus and would require people to travel through active areas of fighting.