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

A new poll about sickle cell disease (SCD), presented by the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and Pfizer revealed that while the majority of respondents were familiar with the illness, less than 40 percent realized that it disproportionately affects people of African descent.

Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017, French tycoon Liliane Bettencourt, the world’s richest women, died. She had a personal fortune estimated by Forbes magazine in March 2017, at $39.5 billion. Ms. Bettencourt died adored, rich and satisfied, while thousands died despised, poor and hungry.