Author: Carma Henry

Commissioner Chip LaMarca is vice chair of the Urban Caucus 2012 Policy Leadership Committee. Commissioner Barbara Sharief serves as chair of the Health and Human Services Policy Leadership Committee

The African-American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) is looking for people who participated in the historic “March on Washington” on Aug. 28, 1963 to join us in a dynamic panel discussion to be scheduled in February 2013 for Black History Month

The Board of Directors of The New Generation of Funeral Service Practitioners Association is pleased to announce that Kevin Mitchell of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. has been appointed as the new Executive Director of this association

Beating the odds and meeting the challenges…..The Dixie Court Story

The City of Fort Lauderdale, the Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitor’s Bureau (CVB), and Fort Lauderdale’s Midtown are gearing up for two great happenings in the City this summer

The payoff may be years away, but Florida stakeholders are already coordinating efforts to make sure the state gets its share of BP oil spill compensation in what could be the largest Gulf restoration effort in history.

Florida’s 28 state and community colleges say they have a plan to make the state the first in the country to reach the national goal of doubling graduation rates by the year 2020 – and they think Gov. Rick Scott will back their play.

An appeals court Tuesday ruled against Attorney General Pam Bondi in a long-running battle about the Legislature’s attempt last year to privatize prisons across southern Florida.

Some of us, and I don’t know why, seem to be under the impression that HIV/AIDS is not the problem it once was for our community.

Our boys are at-risk: For dropping out of school, for poverty, for delinquency, for unemployment, for imprisonment.