Author: Carma Henry

Florida Memorial University held its annual Honors and Awards Ceremony both in person and digitally. This year’s theme was Celebrating The Pursuit of Excellence.

      Meet Dominic Darby, an 11-year old student from St. Catherine, Jamaica, who has recently won the XPRIZE Connect Code Games competition after creating his own video game for the first time. He was one of the only 17 winners out of the 3,000 people who joined the global competition last year.

At just 12-years old, Alena Wicker is set to start college at Arizona State University, majoring in astronomical and planetary science and chemistry. She plans to be an engineer for NASA someday.

Sister scientists Drs. Myla Patterson-Smith, Shuntae Williams, Charletha Irvin Joseph, and Elethia Tillman have partnered to create the Black Scientist Cooperative (“BSC”) Podcast. These HBCU graduates were raised and educated by the Black community and are ready to leverage their expertise to make science and healthcare information clear and simple for their viewers.

     She holds the national records in the bench for reps, the strict curl, and Ironmaiden categories. Murphy was named the WNPF Lifter of the Year in 2014. And she now holds New York state records and national records across multiple WNPF age brackets.

     High sugar intake leads to high BMI, obesity, a decline in oral hygiene, and diabetes. However, what’s not often discussed is the significant impact of a high sugar diet on mental health.

A National Call for Moral Revival

Smile Generation®-trusted dental practice, West Sunrise Dentistry, provided donated dentistry to a man who was wrongfully incarcerated for more than 16 years. Over the course of multiple appointments in February 2021, Owner Dentist Dr. Joshua Golden, DDS, and his team at West Sunrise Dentistry provided comprehensive oral health care to Leonard Cure who spent over a decade behind bars for a crime he did not commit. The Smile Generation, a referral service that connects patients with trusted dentists to get the oral health care they need, has partnered with After Innocence to reach underserved patients in need of comprehensive oral health care. 

    Dr. Brent Chrite has been named the first-ever Black president of Bentley… Bentley University, that is, in Waltham, Massachusetts. Dr. Chrite is an experienced higher education leader who believes business can change lives for the better. He served most recently as the president of Bethune-Cookman University (2019-2021) and dean of the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver (2014-2019).

Authorities on Tuesday identified the suspect in the shooting deaths of 10 people at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder as Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, a 21-year-old with a history of violence whose brother said was deeply disturbed.