Author: Carma Henry

     It really bothers me that time and again, we’ve witnessed our history ignored, sugar-coated, or erased. Enter Gov. Ron DeSantis, who picked up the sad old racist playbook to further divide us with his latest move to interfere with the public-school curriculum.

The Children’s Services Council of Broward County (CSC) announces a Request for Proposals (RFP) to invite qualified vendors to submit proposals to provide a Financial Management System (FMS)

     This gathering of Delta Authors will promote literacy, writing and publishing. Additionally, it gives added exposure while promoting book sales in our community. These amazing Authors will provide insight on their work, book give aways, and a Question & Answer session. This two hour event will take place virtually from 12 to 2 p.m. Our hosts for the event will be the outstanding radio talent, Tamara G. along w/ special entertainment.

     On Thursday, the Department of Education reported that debtors who were defrauded by their schools but who only got an incomplete consolation from their student-loan debt under the Betsy DeVosera Department of Education will have their loans fully cancelled. This is a move that will lead to an approximated $1 billion in debt relief.

      Florida A&M University (FAMU) journalism graduate Yewande O. Addie is making issues of racial equity and justice in academia a key element of her research.

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Human Rights Defense Center is appealing to the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami, arguing that by working in prison on a state contract, Armor must comply with Florida public records laws. “Any lawyer who represents people in prison can tell you that it’s incredibly difficult to get information on what is going on behind bars,” said Kelly Knapp, senior supervising attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center.

April is National Sexual Assault Awareness and Child Abuse Prevention Month, a time to speak out and support survivors of sexual assault and child abuse. According to Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, every 73 seconds a person experiences sexual assault in the United States. One in five women and one in 71 men will be raped at some point in their lives. Here in Broward, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reported 688 rapes in 2019. According to the National Children’s Alliance, nearly 700,000 children are abused in the United States annually.

     Dasia Taylor has juiced about three dozen beets in the last 18 months. The root vegetables, she has found, provide the perfect dye for her invention: suture thread that changes color, from bright red to dark purple, when a surgical wound becomes infected.

  Executive Producer and Alpha Kappa Alpha member Kimberly Esmond Adams believes anytime is the right time to tell this type of American story. “This story talks about the role that a group of college women, who were still finding their way in the world, yet were intelligent enough to understand that the world was bigger than them and they could do something concrete to make it better for everyone.”

     The child population in America is the most diverse in history, but children remain the poorest age group in the country with youth of color suffering the highest poverty rates.