Author: Carma Henry

     If you love food and wine, here is a treat you won’t want to miss. In a matter of weeks some of the area’s best chefs will have an opportunity to cater to your tastebuds. For 21 years the South Beach Wine & Food Festival (SOBEWFF) has been held in South Florida. It has been named by BizBash as the number one food and restaurant industry event in the United States and Canada for eight years in a row. Over the years, this event has featured celebrity chefs with a star-studded line up of personalities and dishes. It has also raised $31.8 million for the Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at FIU which graduates more undergraduate Black, Hispanic and international students than any other hospitality school in the country.

If confirmed, Cook would become the first African American woman to serve in that role.

     A new Gallup poll released on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day revealed that Americans’ political party preferences dramatically shifted by the end of 2021 from a nine-point Democratic advantage to a five-point Republican edge.

   Single mothers hold an extremely respected role in society. They work hard to provide for their child or children and show their strength every day. Several icons, celebrities, and role models come from single-parent homes. But even with the amount of respect and gratitude single mothers receive, no parent can escape criticism. Certain parental issues specifically affect the children of single parents and a large number of problems within these households go unnoticed and un-talked about.

     Anything that gets conservatives’ tighty-righty-whities in a bunch they want banned from the classroom, the libraries and, apparently, the right-wing social media platforms that pretend they’re all about protecting free speech.

A Hollywood, Florida, native is serving aboard USS Essex, a U.S. Navy Wasp class amphibious assault ship.

When the administration began, the pandemic had taken its toll on much of the country and the globe. Since taking office, Vice President Harris said more than 200 million Americans had received Covid vaccines, and 75 million have gotten booster shots. She noted the economic bounce back in the 6 million jobs the administration has created and the near-record-low 3.9 percent unemployment.

     Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis took a stance that even registered Democrats have been awaiting for some time now.  He stood up to former President Donald Trump last week, not mincing his words or speaking in code.  

   Republicans have the audacity to engage in pimping democracy as though it’s a prostitute. Without shame or any semblance of integrity, they lie openly before Congress as well as the American public about Biden isn’t president, stolen election, vaccines don’t work, CDC officials are profiteers,  etc.  These same lies used to lure members of their base to their websites are meant to fleece them of their money.

When leadership reflects people of color, America is in a better place for opportunity and progressive ideas for Black people. Whether you’re looking forward to them, or dreading them, the midterm elections will take place in November 2022. There will be more Blacks and people of color running for office than ever before in the history of America, and there will be more millions in circulation, than ever before.