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

      “I was raised by grandma in Delray Beach, Florida. We would go in the summertime, but it wouldn’t be for pleasure. We had to go to work. What kind of work was it? Picking beans. You loaded on the truck to go to the bean farm. One day I was on my knees with the hamper used to put beans in. When I moved the hamper, I saw this huge Coach Whip snake so I took off running. So when competing today, I think about running from that snake.”  — Jo Ann Sampson

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The Trump administration is dismantling the very programs created to correct generations of systemic racism and economic exclusion—programs that helped level the playing field for Black, Latino, Indigenous, and women entrepreneurs.

 BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — In a moving display of remembrance and restoration, Dillard University, the City of New Orleans, and University Medical Center held a traditional jazz funeral and memorial service to honor the 13 men, four women, and two unidentified individuals whose remains were stolen in the 1870s by a local physician and sent overseas.