Author: Carma Henry

The Westside Gazette’s environmental writer Audrey Peterman has been selected to receive the National Park Conservation Association’s Centennial Leadership Award 2022, for her “role as an important and influential park advocate.” The Award will be presented at the organization’s Annual Salute to the Parks at the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall in DC, on April 6, 2022.

This Fall, six students from four colleges lived at the HBCU National Center on Capitol Hill while completing internships for distinguished members of Congress.

      The Florida General Baptist Convention in conjunction with Florida Memorial University virtually celebrated the 65th Annual Donation Day on Tuesday, November 23, 2021 at Florida Memorial University, a private, coeducational, and Baptist-affiliated institution that has the distinction of being one of the oldest academic centers in the state, and the only Historically Black University in South Florida.

     MSL U.S., in partnership with The Influencer League, unveiled a first-of-its-kind re-search study, “Time to Face the Influencer Pay Gap,” un-covering a vast racial divide in influencer compensation. According to the research, the racial pay gap between White and Black, Indigenous & People of Color (BIPOC) stands at 29 percent.

      A civil rights icon who had been on probation since 1955 over her arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Alabama has finally had her arrest record expunged following decades of outcry.

Earlier this week Edward Waters University (EWU) received formal notification from its accrediting body, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), authorizing the university to offer a new Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree in Forensic Science. As such, the university plans to begin enrolling students in this exciting new academic degree program beginning in fall 2022. Traditionally, EWU has offered the B.A. degree program in Criminal Justice (with a concentration in Forensic Investigation) which has held strong interest amongst students and shown consistent enrollment and programmatic growth over the years

     In Florida, your typical pharmacy cannot dispense medical cannabis and CBD products, that’s the job of medical marijuana treatment centers, which under Florida law must be owned and operated by the same company that grows and cultivates medical marijuana.

      As 2021 comes to a close and we gather with family and friends during this Holiday Season, this is a good time to reflect on the challenges we confronted and give thanks for the opportunity we have to move our mission forward in service to our students and constituents.  We must pause to give thanks to our Board of Trustees, faculty, staff, alumni and countless others who gave their time, resources and hearts to allow us to now envision and even brighter future for Florida A&M University.    

     As men get older very few discuss problems and issues with their pro-state, until it is in later stages of the condition. At the early phase of any medical condition, it is better for the patient, and the doctor in terms of treatment and awareness to sit and have a conversation. Starting at fifty or late forties is when men need to go to an urologists, and begin to understand the mechanics of the urinary system in their body. Very few know what the prostate is and how it works with the urethra to urinate and what is BPH (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia).

      “I love you Cameron Tanner. Always have. Always will.” Most husbands adore their wives’ words of love. Cameron’s (Mahershala Ali, Moonlight) ambivalence stems from his secret, painful ordeal. He’s dying and his wife Poppy (Naomie Harris, Moonlight) doesn’t know it.