Albert was a standout in football. He was an outstanding wide-receiver for the Mays Rams. He led his team to numerous titles including Big 9 Conference champs and the Class 2A State Champions, the only state football title in school history. A member of the undefeated 1966 State Championship team, Albert was an end who was named First Team All-State and also received All City and County 1966 football conference honors.
Author: Carma Henry
Carma Henry
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In early 1945 as the Battle of the Bulge concluded Army officials reported that a lack mail was hurting morale. Warehouses were filled with millions of pieces of mail destined for the seven million Americans serving in the European theatre. The task of getting that mail to its intended recipients fell on the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion.
The group received the award for Best Paper that featured a path for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) student success. The conference is a strategic initiative taken by the Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange (CSRDE) at the University of Oklahoma.
The legislation would clear $57 billion of that amount and save the agency another $50 billion over the next decade.
The Black Star Network, the only Black owned broadcast network with a daily digital show in the world, is announcing several new shows that will all be up and running in February.
Young Yvonne attended Lucas Elementary School, Prentiss Normal & Industrial High School and graduated from Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama with a major in Commercial Dietetics. She played a piano for four different churches while in high school. She was also a talented seamstress in high school and college of which she designed and customized most of her clothes.
The Town of Lake Park has been awarded a grant of more than $11 million through the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity’s Rebuild Florida Mitigation General Infrastructure Program. The $11,067,635 will be used to retrofit the Town’s aging drainage system using low-impact green infrastructure.
-The Mosaic Company announced a $100,000 donation to the Florida A&M University (FAMU) School of Business and Industry (SBI) Tuesday in Tallahassee.
On that day, which has become known nationally and worldwide as the Orangeburg Massacre, members of the South Carolina National Guard and South Carolina Highway patrolmen opened fire on student advocates. The group had gathered on the campus in protest after three nights of escalating racial tension over efforts to desegregate All Star Bowling Lanes, which was located in downtown Orangeburg. Students Samuel Hammond Jr., Delano Middleton, and Henry Smith were murdered while 28 others were wounded.
I was privileged as a family member to attend the spectacular retirement sendoff for Mrs. Bertha Watson Henry, whose highly successful tenure as Broward County Administrator began in 2008 and comes to a glorious conclusion later this month, February, which obviously is Black History month, so apropos because she has assuredly left an indelible imprint on Broward County and its citizenry.