Author: Carma Henry

The cancellation of a Broward literary event raises urgent questions about open dialogue, community trust and constitutional freedom

   South Carolina State proved to be worthy road warriors after defeating a determined, stubborn Bethune-Cookman Wildcat squad in Daytona Beach. Head coach Sam Shade led Alabama A&M to a hard-fought victory over FAMU in Tallahassee, a formidable task. The winning coaches, Coach Berry of SCSU and Coach Shade, have both had a few years to establish their respective programs. Coach Quinn Gray is in his first year at Florida A&M, but I have no doubt that he will quickly right the Rattlers’ ship.

     The center opened on Wednesday, September 23. Jordan helped open the center by committing $1 million in 2021 to support Morehouse students studying journalism and sports-related fields. The donation went towards scholarships and athletic programs.

2026 Black Achievers Awards to honor five community leaders and a standout student

       What makes this machinery of erasure so dangerous is not only the harm it inflicts but the way it hides. Institutional indifference does not announce itself. It accumulates. It slumbers. It waits for the moment when its resurrection will be most convenient for those who profit from the lie. A dead lien can be made to breathe again if the affidavit that proves its death is folded into a box, pushed to a shelf, and left to gather dust. Years later, when a clerk needs a record to justify a removal, the box is opened, the convenient document is found, and the law—on paper—becomes a tool of dispossession in practice.

Broward Health Foundation celebrated the dedication of the Boyce Haller Family Cardiac Catheterization and Electrophysiology Suite at Broward Health Medical Center with a ribbon cutting and sign reveal attended by Broward Health leadership, North Broward Hospital District Commissioners, Broward Health Foundation Board members, hospital executives, cardiologists and members of the Haller family.

       “We’re beginning to accept the fact that cannabis is not without its complications,” says Dr. Barry Gordon, commenting on a growing body of research that points to a strong correlation between high-potency marijuana use and mental health disorders such as psychosis.

   Rev. Maurice Dawkins came to the NAACP in Fort Lauderdale to work with the churches back in 1999, as I remember, and we quickly got together because I had seen his photograph in a booklet given to me by Rev. Dr. Leon H. Sullivan, Founder of Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America, known as OIC. The reason that I remembered Rev. Dawkins was because he had organized the second OIC for Dr. Sullivan’s 1964 Philadelphia start up in California. It is historic how OIC quickly blossomed across America, including Indian Reservations, and later internationally.

       Trump has a way of speaking truth without knowing it and his renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America is a SHAME!

A Mississippi grand jury has declined to charge anyone in the death of Nolan Wells, the 18-year-old whose body was found near Horn Island two days after a Fourth of July boating trip. For his family, the decision leaves the central question unanswered: How did Nolan die?