Author: Carma Henry

  This week, volunteers from Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and Broward Education Foundation joined Mayors Ashira Mohammed (Pembroke Park) and Felicia Brunson (West Park) at Watkins Elementary School for a landscaping beautification project and reading story time for 3rd-5th grade students.

       Celebrate the art, culture and history of the Harlem Renaissance at the second annual 2025 Africana Arts & Humanities Festival, scheduled for March 13-15 at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC), 2650 Sistrunk Blvd., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311. 

Standing at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge where hundreds of Foot Soldiers were attacked 60 years ago while demonstrating for the right to vote, Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell and several political leaders  part of the 2025 Faith and Politics Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage spoke forcefully about a continued fight for voters to have a say at the ballot box.

       The Selma Voting Rights Campaign had been going on for more than nine weeks at that point.  Day after day, Black citizens, tried to enter the Dallas County Courthouse to register to vote. Day after day, Sheriff Jim Clark and his deputies blocked their path. Hundreds were arrested, and many were beaten. But the campaign had, so far, failed to attract the widespread sympathy of the nation.

       WE, UNITED TO END RACISM, are here to honor those who walked the Pettus Bridge 60 years ago and to signal our intention to carry on the work those soldiers so courageously and honorably engaged.

       Being led by the Holy Spirit, Brothers Willie King and Eddie Wallace consulted with Rev. Archie McCoy to be their spiritual advisor while restructuring the Prayer Band into a church. Attorney Paul Dickey blessed the Prayer Band with a parcel of land and lumber where they were able to build the first Mount Nebo Baptist Church at 1125 Northwest Sixth Street. Mount Nebo arrived at its church name because ancient civilizations consider the mountains to be a holy place.

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Robert Bell  Funeral service was held March 8th at  South Chapel.   Jhordyn Brown  Funeral Service was held March 8th at The Purple Church.   Jimmy…

George Bell Funeral services was held March 15th at First Zion Baptist Church. Darryl Davis Funeral service was held March 15th at Revival Faith Center.…

Minnie Louise Borum – 93.     _Not Pictured – Michael Edwin Cullen – 77. Carmen Rena Newton – 54    Funeral service was held March…