Author: Carma Henry

     In 1982, teenager Tomika McNeal is arrested for committing Murder at Uncle Candyman’s Grocery after a witness identifies her, but she doesn’t know why this is happening.

Still reeling from the sudden death of her 10-year-old daughter, a South Carolina mom said she complained about her child being bullied multiple times before she died after a fight with a classmate at school.

Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era, yet no one-time slave society in the Americas has paid reparations to former slaves or their descendants, notes historian, author and history professor Dr. Ana Lucia Araujo, who authored the groundbreaking 2017 book, “Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Transnational and Comparative History.”

     Finances should never be a barrier to graduation, nor should the financial impact of earning a college degree be a barrier for buying a home, saving money, starting a family, and having a good credit score. TMCF prides itself on building pipelines into good paying jobs but we also have to work to ensure that those students are able to truly reap the financial benefits of their achievements without having to pay off years of student loan debt.

-Youth and vitality may be coming to the dais in the City of Miami Gardens, in 2020. Arbie Nickerson, Jr., a 21-yea- old, lifelong resident of the city, officially launched his campaign on for City of Miami Gardens Council, District 5 on Tuesday evening, April 2, at Starbucks, 19401 NW 27 Avenue, in Miami Gardens.

the leading chamber in Miami-Dade County’s minority community, MDCC leveraged its position to bring together several formidable thought leaders to discuss “Employment: Today & Tomorrow”. Title sponsor CareerSource South Florida was uniquely positioned to lend deep insight on this topic. Executive Director, Rick Beasley, led an intuitive fireside chat with none other the President & CEO of Enterprise Florida, Jamal Sowell.

     As President Trump continues to tell Americans that he is being audited, the House Ways & Means committee made a request to the IRS. “Democrats are seeking Trump’s tax returns to investigate allegations of corruption against the president and his businesses, and the president’s legal team is promising a vigorous fight to keep them private,” says David Knowles of the Yahoo News.

Barr is just another word for obstruction

A “Twitter-stamp” by Secretary of State Pompeo made it  official. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is now designated as a foreign terrorist organization. “We must help the people of Iran get back their freedom is a diplomatic tweet of an alternative reality, ISIS, Boko Harman, and Iran, all in one place.

     Kenneth A. Gibson, who became the first African American mayor of a major American city, died this past week at the age of 86. After decades of Italian political rule, Gibson fashioned a coalition of blacks and other groups to ascend to the mayor’s office in Newark, New Jersey in 1970. He served four historical terms, leaving office in 1986.