Author: Carma Henry

       He’s carrying a quartet of bills this year, each designed to better safeguard at-risk kids. Some are repeats of measures he’s filed in years past. All would make the Sunshine State safer for those young people.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Voting rights advocates say this would create enormous hurdles for poor people, rural residents, Black Americans, naturalized citizens, and the nearly 70 million women whose current legal names differ from those on their birth certificates due to marriage.

       Republicans love to talk during their political campaigns and public pronouncements about “saving the children,” yet, to their eternal shame, Florida and many of the other states in the union also have a hunger — specifically, a child hunger — problem.

In Fort Lauderdale, a city rich in both civil rights history and athletic tradition, a proposed historical marker honoring long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad has sparked a heated and deeply personal debate—one that underscores the tension between honoring individual achievement and preserving collective memory.

The YMCA of South Florida hosts the annual FREE Healthy Kids Day on Saturday, April 26 from 9 a.m. to noon at seven YMCA locations across Broward and Miami-Dade counties.

The Fort Lauderdale (FL) Chapter of The Links, Incorporated has deepened its commitment to education with an $11,000 contribution to its endowed scholarship fund at Florida Memorial University (FMU), a historically Black university in Miami Gardens, Florida. This latest contribution brings the total fund to over $25,000, further strengthening the chapter’s efforts to address the critical shortage of Black male educators by providing financial support to students pursuing degrees in education.

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        A new type of antibiotic for treatment of urinary tract infections in women could also work against gonorrhea infections, a new study finds. This could put the medication, called gepotidacin, on track to become the first new antibiotic for gonorrhea since the 1990s.

This is part four of a four-part series titled “Medically Unnecessary’’ that has examined how children with complex medical needs are faring after losing Medicaid coverage and being pushed onto state-run health insurance not designed for their needs.

       Both gallstones and kidney stones can be very painful. Gallstones are deposits of digestive fluid, while kidney stones are crystals formed from chemicals in the urine. Both types of stones may pass. Gallstones may require the removal of the gallbladder.