Author: Carma Henry

Black students not sharing the glory

     A Miami-Dade police officer faces a battery charge after video showed him throwing a Black woman to the ground during an arrest after she called 911 to report a man threatening her and a friend with a gun.

    A Chase employee called the police on Wednesday, April 25, after Mayor Thomas was invited into a conference room and after Mayor Thomas had introduced the two people with him, including the police detective.

The weekend of April 20 the Funk Fest made its way to Orlando with a line-up many won’t be able to forget.

     This year graduates and their loved ones heard from renowned congressman and civil rights icon, Representative John R. Lewis.

Chief Machinist’s Mate Gilbert Laguerre, from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) engineering department, returns the salutes of Ford’s chiefs mess as he is piped ashore. Ford is currently undergoing its post-shakedown availability at Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding.

Expanded hangar and training facility to accommodate 100 more students per semester  By Cindy Schutt       PEMBROKE PINES, FLA.–Broward College officials, VIPs and students last…

     “I always say that if you’re in a boardroom or a meeting and you’re the only girl at the table, celebrate that moment; but then realize that you have a responsibility to make sure that never happens again,” Jackson told The New Tri-State Defender during an interview before the luncheon.

     With a vision to drive more Black females into the fields of STEM, Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, the newly-elected president and CEO of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), recently lead a major National Town Hall with a special focus on Black millennial women and career development at the NCNW headquarters, located in Washington, D.C.

“Our true mission is art for a better way of life,” said Cox. “When we see the character of women come alive as they are creating the dolls, and we see the effect our work has on the lives of homeless people and women, we know that they are given a little ray of hope. We need some help. Catch the vision. Believe in what we see and what we do.”