Author: Carma Henry

     Among her more memorable stage performances were 1968’s “Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights,” 1969’s “To Be Young, Gifted and Black,” and 1983’s “The Corn is Green.” “So many great stories about Cicely Tyson,” Tweeted Soledad O’Brien. “Whew, that lady was amazing. While shooting a doc on her in Spanish Harlem, people kept stopping their cars. In the street. To hop out and say hi. Old people. Teenagers. Middle-aged fans. “Ciss-el-lee” they’d chant as she’d walk by.”

     The underlining challenge of the pandemic is health care. A challenge which only heightens when one considers that Trump spent the last four years weakening and attempting to completely dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which protects health care for tens of millions of Americans.

      Vaccine distribution is not keeping up with the impact of COVID-19 on Black and other communities of color. Ongoing disparities in vaccine distribution show the need for targeted efforts to provide coverage to impacted groups. 

She once stated that the roles she played had to have substance. She was an Oscar Nominee and she has won several Emmys. An African American, Ms. Tyson is one who has paved the way for us Black girls

Florida Memorial University has been selected by Google, in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), to participate in the Grow with Google’s (GwG) HBCU Career Readiness Program. This new initiative will embed HBCU student jobseeker resources into a select number of Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) career services centers, with the goal of helping 100,000 Black students gain digital skills needed to find and land entry level jobs and internships and to be successful in the workplace. The funds will support activities with the Intentional Readiness for Occupational Acquisition and Retention (iROAR) Program, and the FMU Career Development Center.

Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center (CDTC) is sharing a Valentine’s experience reimagined for the pandemic in a new semi-virtual For the Love of Charity from 6 to 8 p.m. on Friday, February 12.

     In response to this latest Executive Order, Melanie L. Campbell, President of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) and Convener of the Black Women’s Roundtable (BWR), shares her thoughts: “This is a tremendous executive action that President Biden has taken in prioritizing the need for affordable health care in the Biden Administration’s First 100 Days.  This action to re-open the ACA insurance marketplace will be extremely helpful, especially for those finding themselves without healthcare during the worst pandemic in American history. 

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     The Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections website thoroughly presented the epic results of the November 2020 election for Palm Beach County. As one of the two candidates who ran for the Palm Beach Soil and Water Conservation District Seat 2, Ann Marie Sorrell won nearly 66% of the votes, totaling 398,354 votes out of the total 607,697 votes cast.

     “The vision of the position is to use objective information and analytics to create and support a culture of inclusion and belonging where individuals from all diversity dimensions, racial and ethnic identities, ages, nationalities, social and economic status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, religious, political and ideological perspectives, and physical and mental abilities, are able to thrive and be actively engaged,” her letter continued.