Author: Carma Henry

The YMCA of South Florida recently hosted the 14th Annual “Bridge the Gap,” a friendly basketball game with teen campers and local law enforcement officers from the City of Fort Lauderdale and Broward Sheriff’s Office at the L.A. Lee YMCA/Mizell Community Center’s gym in Fort Lauderdale. Congresswoman Dr. Rosalind Osgood and Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Zay Flowers, who played in “Bridge the Gap” games in his youth, spoke at the game.

Investment will help South Florida’s only HBCU secure independent real estate expehise as it works to grow enrollment and turn its land development as a lasting source of institutional strength.

       A U.S. Secret Service agent and two other South Florida men have been charged in connection with an alleged fraternity hazing ritual that left a University of Miami law student critically injured and another participant requiring skin grafts, authorities said.

      Uniformed officers from the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, Broward Sheriff’s Office and other local law enforcement agencies were paired with 150 youth, ages 13 to 18, served by Handy (Helping Advance and Nurture the Development of Youth) for a unique shopping experience designed to foster positive relationships while helping students prepare for the new school year. They shopped at TJ Maxx and Marshalls in Coral Ridge Mall with a $100 TJ Maxx gift card from Handy to purchase back-to-school essentials and also received a backpack filled with school supplies to help them start the school year with confidence.

  The second annual Unity Classic is less than a month away, as the Edward Waters University Tigers prepare to face the Florida Memorial University Lions at Nathaniel Glover Community Field and Stadium in Jacksonville.

 LOUIS AMERICAN — Medicaid reimbursements for routine care at Planned Parenthood and similar clinics are once again permitted, allowing low-income patients to receive services in states that allow the payments. The one-year federal ban, which prevented Medicaid funding for non-abortion services like cancer screenings and birth control, expired because Congress did not renew it.

       The official autopsy in the death of Nolan Wells has been completed, marking another major development in the investigation into the 18-year-old’s death.

  America’s greatest threat may not be a foreign adversary waiting beyond its borders. Critics argue that the nation’s most dangerous enemy has lived within its own political culture for generations, quietly weakening the democratic principles that once defined the Republic. They contend that the continuing influence of white supremacy ideology has eroded America’s democratic institutions from within.

     In 1853 he asked Harriet Beecher Stowe to help him build a school where Black boys could learn a trade. There were fathers, he said, “whose minds are tossed by day and by night with the anxious enquiry, ‘what shall I do with my boys?”’

     “Even though we have an administration that doesn’t even believe that climate change is real, we’re smart and we know that it is real,” says Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, president of the African American Mayors Association (AAMA), in an interview with the Trice Edney News Wire. “People can see these storms that are causing flooding in areas that have never been flooded. People know it’s hotter. They can see that. What we’re doing now is just allowing ourselves to be prepared for the world that we know that we want.”