National News
Skate Park Dedicated to Tyre Nichols, Honoring a Life Cut Short
The park, once a cherished sanctuary for Nichols, will now bear its name as a testament to his passion for skateboarding and impact on the community. […]
Articles by Carma Henry
Local News
Drug Importation Decision Could Come in Fall
A judge has put on hold key parts of a lawsuit filed by Florida against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, after the federal agency said it expects to make a decision by Oct. 31 on the state’s plan to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada. […]
National News
Extreme Heat Is Killing Incarcerated Black Folks
This is not a scene from a dystopian novel. It’s a reality for people experiencing the suffocating confines of incarceration. […]
National News
Election Denial Movement Thrives in Statehouses, Threatening Democratic Processes, Reports Reveal
Their comprehensive report, titled “A Democracy Crisis in The Making: June 2023 Edition,” presents a harrowing analysis of the introduction of approximately 200 bills in 38 states this year, all aimed at granting state governments the power to undermine elections. […]
Business
Nation’s debt limit bill more a financial reprieve than resolution:
Instead of a final resolution on America’s borrowing ability, the enacted bill provides a two-year window for the Treasury Department to borrow – as needed – funds to pay the nation’s already more than $31 trillion of debt. When January 2025 arrives, a new session of Congress will face the deferred problem. Until then, according to the Congressional Budget Office, cutbacks on discretionary spending would result in a drop in projected budget deficits of about $4.8 trillion over the next decade, and a savings of $0.5 trillion in interest. […]
Local News
We The People (WTPMarch.org) Need You Now
Authoritarian law-makers and legislatures have introduced close to 1,000 pieces of hateful legislation across the country. While many Americans are disgusted and outraged, the voices we’re hearing loudest and clearest are those of a vocal minority determined to roll back 70 years of progress. They deliberately are attacking and attempting to dismantle our democracy, stripping whole groups of people of their basic civil rights. […]
Local News
Local Nonprofit is Utilizing Indigenous Art & Culture to Revitalize a Historical Broward County Community
On Sunday March 26, 2023, the sun shone brightly across clear blue skies as Dania Beach residents carried on with their typical midday routines. However, one Dania Beach resident had to pinch herself to make sure she wasn’t dreaming. […]
Entertainment
A True Renaissance Man Gordon Parks
Nubian artistic excellence is the calling card for Gordon Parks. In 1969 he became the first Black person to write and direct a major Hollywood studio feature film, “The Learning Tree,” based on his best selling novel. Two years later he continued breaking new cinematic directorial ground with the 1971 movie “Shaft.” That movie was not only a hit, but it had wide critical acclaim. That movie is recognized as the vanguard movie for “Blaxploitation” cinema of that era. Academic racism was why Mr. Parks’ work was never compared to his White peers, like Spielberg, Hitchcock and Scorsese. If academicians had compared them, they would find a resume that overshadowed those premiere directors. […]
Local News
Pompano Beach Arts Presents Fin, the Final Group Exhibition for BaCA’s Artists in Residence Vernissage Party Entertained South Florida Community Leaders
Pompano Beach Arts is honored to announce the new group exhibition, Fin, which celebrates the achievements of the 2022/2023 Artists in Residence (AiR) at Bailey Contemporary Arts (BaCA) will run through June 30, 2023. The exhibition features works created by the artists during their 9-month residency and opened with a glamorous vernissage party, which was attended by a who’s who of arts, community, and political leaders. Learn more about this exhibition at www.pompanobeacharts.org […]
Local News
Eta Nu’s Exhilarating 3 Days of Excellence
ON THURSDAY June 8, 2023, the Eta Nu Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. held its annual Talent Hunt Program, one of the fraternity’s mandated observances. Parents, community partners, friends, and chapter members converged at the E. Pat Larkins Complex to celebrate and observe the extraordinarily, talented contestants, many of whom attend Dillard High’s School of the Performing Arts: Va ‘Kiel Harris ( Piano Solo), Manasseh Etienne (Violin Solo), and Issac Delva (Piano Solo). A fourth contestant, Talia Mitchell, performed also. […]