According to Philadelphia’s fire department, a fire at a public housing building in killed at least 12 people on Wednesday morning. The dead in the two-unit rowhouse in Philadelphia’s Fairmount district include eight children.
Author: Carma Henry
Carma Henry
Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861
WHAT WE BLACKS NEED TO DO
The message of President Abraham Lincoln’s November 19, 1863, Gettysburg Address is still relevant in 2022. The message is to courageously resist the evil forces which threaten America or the government of, by, and for the people will perish from the Earth.
Making New Year’s Resolutions Into Business Opportunities
Maxine McNair, who was the last living parent of the four African American girls murdered in a 1963 Alabama church bombing by the Ku Klux Klan, died on January 2, 2022 at 93.
Gainey’s inauguration and swearing-in were held virtually because of COVID-19 with limited in-person attendance in the council chambers. He took the oath of office just before 2 p.m., the judge getting emotional while speaking about the moment’s historical impact.
Florida A&M University professor Luther D. Wells and alumnus Reginald L. Wilson are taking “Sugar Ray,” a one-man show about legendary boxer Sugar Ray Robinson to an off-Broadway theater.
The sentences of the convicted three murderers of Ahmaud Arbery is not justice, because justice would be having him alive today. But it is accountability. It shows us that even in the deep south, with 11 white jurors and only 1 Black juror, that white men can now be sentenced to life in prison for killing a Black man, something unimaginable not long ago. Last February, when the parents of Ahmaud Arbery notified National Action Network about the case, we immediately went to work supporting the family and lawyers in the fight for accountability. Many never thought that in rural Georgia, with this jury, that we would be saying today that these men will spend the rest of their lives in prison, two of them without the possibility of parole.
Georgia Judge Timothy Walmsley sentenced three White killers of 25-year-old Black Ahmaud Abery to life in prison, two without possibility of parole. One, William “Roddy” Bryan, now 52 will have to serve a mandatory 30 years, before being eligible for parole. The defendants appealed their conviction and sentencing. The three are likely to die in Georgia prisons as Ahmaud Arbery’s family requested at the sentencing hearing.
The Miami Dolphins announced today that Head Coach Brian Flores has been relieved of his duties. Flores completed his third season as head coach with a 24-25 record.