Local News

Price For A $lave

      Slave ownership is only tacitly presented in US schools. There are many aspects of slavery that have been left to the dim mists of history. This week we illuminate the price to own a human being. A repulsive topic, but you have a responsibility to know it. We have always been an oral society. The elders would pass on the history and rituals of our culture. The current political posture is to not educate our students on the full pain of the Black diaspora in America!  […]

Local News

Pompano Beach Cultural Center Presents Pandemic: The Unmasking of America

      Pompano Beach Cultural Center is proud to present a solo exhibition entitled Pandemic: The Unmasking of America by Craig Gordon. This exhibition is a photo-documentary featuring images with narratives that bears witness to the coronavirus pandemic as it blanketed New York during the spring of 2020. The opening reception takes place on January 13, 2023, at 6 pm and the exhibition runs through April 6, 2023.  For more information, www.pompanobeacharts.org. […]

Sports

Pull Up Basketball: Intentionally A Cut Above

   A chance meeting at a Starbucks in which a conversation was overheard  about the defunct pro basketball team, the ABA’s South Florida Gold, led to a partnership between two strangers – Coach Issac Colvin, who was there with his son Chris discussing the merits of team, and Jonathan “ JDOGG” Lederman, a frequent Starbucks visitor who often met clients there as a business consultant/promoter.    As someone who had done PA work with team, the purposeful intrusion was naturally based out of curiosity. That conversation led to Coach Colvin’s involvement in Pull Up Basketball, something Jonathan found intriguing. Thus began the partnership, though interrupted by Covid, which established the foundation for a girl’s travel basketball team AKA Pull Up Basketball. […]

Feature

Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick commits to delivering for District 20 & Florida families

    Representative Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL ) was sworn in Saturday for her first full term in the United States House of Representative from Florida’s 20th Congressional District. The 20th Congressional District consists of several cities in Broward and Palm Beach counties, to include Belle Glade, Lauderdale Lakes, Tamarac, Lauderhill, North Lauderdale parts of Pompano, Plantation, Sunrise, West Palm, and Fort Lauderdale. […]