Author: Carma Henry

250429-N-EK538-1060 APRA HARBOR, Guam (April 29, 2025) Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Indra Beaufort, from Hollywood, Florida, temporarily assigned to the Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001), practices efficient tugboat maneuvering during tugboat familiarization training in the Apra Harbor, April 29, 2025.

Nunnie on the Sideline

    For the second consecutive year, the Dillard Panthers girls’ won the state championship in track & field. 

 How are we here again? How did we get here from where we were? How can stakehold-ers ever have confidence that it is actually fixed and not patched up for a year? How could this even happen again?
I was absolutely flabbergasted to hear that FAMU football received one of the lowest ever APR ratings from the NCAA, just a year after receiving one of the highest-ever ratings. We toiled through the infamous debacle of 2022 where the academic embarrassment of our university reached national proportions. We saw one of the best teams in the country on the field, put up some of the worst academic performances in school history. The national champions on the field failed to make the mark in the classroom.

     Charlie Ward’s first FAMU signings have been announced, and one of them is the son of a former Pro Bowl wide receiver in the NFL.

“As a military brat, a daughter of immigrants, and a military spouse, I’ve seen firsthand what the American Dream can be—and what it costs,” said Sutherland. “Florida is the home in my heart. This state, and the hardworking families who make it special, are worth fighting for.”

      It is with profound love and gratitude that we honor the life of Ida Elizabeth Storr Cash, a cherished daughter, devoted wife, loving mother, and beloved friend who passed away peacefully on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. Born on February 12, 1931, in Miami, Florida, Ida lived a life marked by grace, strength, and unwavering faith. Ida’s spiritual journey began early, nurtured by her family’s church, A.M. Cohen Temple Church of God in Christ, where she flourished under the leadership of the late Bishop A.M. Cohen.

       We are tired of being told to wait while injustice burns like a blowtorch to our souls. Tired of the cruelty using us like puppets with policy. Tired of watching the rich get richer while working families get broker. Enough is enough.

       Mississippi county officials have settled a lawsuit filed by Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, two Black men who were tortured and abused by sheriff’s deputies in 2023.

       Democrats argue the Republican strategy—cutting Medicaid and destabilizing Social Security—amounts to an all-out war on working-class Americans. The CBO report estimates that the GOP’s Medicaid policy shifts would reduce the federal deficit by as much as $710 billion over the next decade, but at a devastating cost: loss of care, rising out-of-pocket expenses, and widening inequities in health access. “Crafting health care policy is not an academic exercise; for tens of thousands of Americans, it’s a matter of life or death,” Ducas noted