Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

     Jackie Robinson’s arrival in Brooklyn in 1947 may have changed the way Major League Baseball looked to outsiders, but it did not change the reality for many African American players in the game. Many remained ignored, marginalized and stuck in baseball’s backlands even as the world assumed the color line had become a relic of bygone days.

     While skeptics persist, for years former military personnel, airline pilots and ordinary citizens have argued they have witnessed objects in the sky they argue are “not of this world.” For decades, The Final Call newspaper has published research chronic-ling the existence of what are commonly called UFOs but what the Nation of Islam refers to as IFOs—Identified Flying Objects.

     “Watch the weather! Because God doesn’t fight with your cheap weapons! God fights with the forces of nature: rain, hail, snow, wind, drought. He uses the insects and the animals and turns nature against you. You can’t win in a war against God,” Minister Farrakhan has warned consistently.

Aviation Machinist’s Mate 1st  Class David Burke, from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., assigned to the air department aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55), washes an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to the “Grandmasters” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 46 after flight operations.

     Five hundred guests – sporting exceptionally enormous hair, over-the-top sequined attire, gregariously loud makeup and Elton John-like platforms – traveled back in time to the excesses of Studio 54 at The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino DĂ©jĂ  Vu gala.  DĂ©jĂ  Vu, headlined by 80s multi-platinum recording artist ExposĂ©, raised $292,830 in support of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Broward County.