Author: Carma Henry

Tyler Perry is reportedly hiring at his studios in Atlanta

A call for help ends in death

As proposed by School Board Vice Chair Dr. Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall, the Miami-Dade School Board honored exemplary community organizations: International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) Local #1416 and Nu Chapter of Chi Eta Phi Nursing Sorority, Inc.

A 95-year-old “Rosie the Riveter” who helped to build ships in World War II and tells her original story at that California park today; a former director of the National Park Service; the current Superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s National Parks Youth leader; a national award winning young underwater explorer and a professor of geography focused on African Americans’ relationship to the public lands system.

In the span of 30 days, federal judges have scuttled voter suppression laws in North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin, Kansas and North Dakota, giving voting rights advocates a few, much-needed victories for the blood and sweat wrought in their court battles and protests since the controversial United States Supreme Court decision in Shelby v. Holder.

GADSON Funeral services for the late Lois Gadson – 77 were held Sept. 10 at Roy Mizell and Kurtz Worship Center with Dr. James B. Darling,…

FULLER Funeral services for the Roy A. Fuller – 57. JAMES Funeral services for the late Pencie Cola James – 102 were Sept. 10…

CHERFILS Funeral services for the late Lance Cherfils, Sr. – 29 were held Sept. 10 at James C. Boyd’s Memorial Chapel with Elder Michael Ad-dison officiating.…

JONES Funeral services for the late Frank Dallas Jones – 69 were held Aug. 28 at St. Mark Missionary Baptist Church, Dillion, S.C. with Rev. Sylvester…

Curator and Researcher Mary Elliott shares insight into new Black History Museum