Author: Carma Henry

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     Summertime in South Florida is in full swing, which means plenty of sunshine, longer daylight hours, camp, pool parties, backyard barbeques and outdoor activities. The hot summer months can also bring an increased risk of recreational accidents, heat overexposure, sunburns, bug bites and more. Broward Health’s family medicine specialists share tips on how we can protect ourselves during the summer season.

     Haiti is the first and only country of African people to fight for and gain their independence in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti is the only place where slaves took their freedom by force and led the only successful slave revolt in modern times.  That fact alone is worthy of acclaim and respect.  Haiti’s place in our history is without parallel.

Voting Rights and Wrongs

  Everything we do or don’t do is a lesson for our children. They learn by modeling our behaviors after observing them with their active and developing minds. As we focus on the way things need to be in order for our children to be the most successful, we will begin creating those opportunities where we will be able to benefit now and later, even if that requires sacrifice. When we recognize the part we play collectively in the observance of laws, and act based upon what we need for our benefit, we will be able to control our future.

Black AIDS Institute (BAI), the nation’s only Black-led organization focused on ending HIV in Black communities, has re-launched its renowned “African American HIV University” (AAHU) program. Aligned with BAI’s “We The People: A Black Strategy to End HIV,” which is rooted in Black empowerment, the reinvigorated and expanded AAHU program aims to build Black leadership and mobilization skills as an upstream, structural, and sustainable intervention to end the epidemic in Black America. Of its seven interconnected components designed to strengthen the HIV workforce, AAHU’s two flagship initiatives, Science and Treatment College and Community Mobilization College are accepting applications through August 15.

     Biz Markie, the rapper, producer, and actor whose hits included “Just a Friend” and “Nobody Beats the Biz,” has died at the age of 57.

Charlie Robinson, a veteran actor best known for his role as Mac the court clerk on the ’80s sitcom “Night Court,” has died. He was 75

BOYD Funeral services for the late Mrs. Jeanette Elizabeth Boyd – 72 were held July 17th at James C. Boyd’s Memorial Chapel. COX Funeral services for…

ANDREWS Funeral services for the Shelley Ira Andrews – 56. BAILEY Funeral services for the late Jason Johnson Bailey – 37 – were held July 17th…