Author: Carma Henry

*The Florida Department of Health has suspended daily case and vaccine reports. The department will instead post weekly updates. The numbers reported here reflect the number of new cases and deaths for the previous week, October 1 – October 7

Broward Health today donated $250,000 worth of PPE and medical supplies to support earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. About 60 pallets of supplies, including face masks, surgical gloves, ponchos, sanitizers, isolation gowns and other items that can be used for health care, COVID mitigation and preservation of health and wellness, were shared with Man Dodo and the Haitian American Nurses Association for distribution in Haiti.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, technology company IN2L provided the state of Florida with tablets to help connect socially-isolated seniors with their loved ones through Project VITAL (Virtual Inclusive Technology for All). Now, the company is building on that support by joining the Alzheimer’s Association as a 2021 Walk to End Alzheimer’s sponsor in Tampa, Greater Orlando and Broward County. 

“Murder Just Because”

    Movie goers were terrorized throughout the world by a fictitious character called Count Dracula. Dracula sucked the blood from his victims, turning them into a cult of Vampires. People today are facing a real and deadly virus called – COVID-19. But scientists developed multiple vaccines to inoculate people and to prevent it from spreading. Unfortunately, there are thousands of people, young and old, who strongly object to vaccines or any measures that can prevent the spread of the virus. Consequently, their loud anti-vaccine rhetoric and rowdy demonstrations have led to the evolution of groups resembling an anti-vaccine cult.

Money Green

     Across the nation as business owners are attempting to recover from the COVID-19 global pandemic, African America business leaders who are defying the odds with their financial success are often targeted by “mainstream media” and others who summarily and unfairly castigate Black business leaders’ economic achievements. Is this syndrome racially motivated? The simple answer is “Yes.”

     Thanks to the generous funding of the Rachel Carson Grant, Dreyfoos is hosting Solomon Dumas as a Guest Artist from October 4th through the 8th, teaching master classes and choreographing a guest piece influenced by a social justice cause. Not only do dancers get the opportunity to learn from a working professional company member in Ailey, but they also additionally participate in Horton technique classes (the primary modern technique taught in our department). They also experience a true “blind” audition by wearing numbers and being chosen by the guest choreographer for their piece.

Quartermaster 2nd Class Connor Baudoin, right, from Lafayette, Louisiana, and Quartermaster 2nd Class Miguel McKinnie, from Fort Lauderdale, FL perform preventative maintenance on the “big eyes” on the bridge wing of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76).

     Sometimes friends must hold friends accountable. That’s why I got arrested outside the White House on Oct. 5. I was there with other civil rights and religious leaders to call on President Joe Biden to do more to protect voting rights that are under attack.