Author: Carma Henry

   The City of Pembroke Pines invites you to participate in the 20th Annual Art Competition. Artists 18 years or older residing in the tri-county area (Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach counties) are eligible to participate. Accepted artworks will be on display at Studio 18 Art Complex from May 16 to August 4, 2025.

This is part two of a four-part series examining how children with complex medical needs are faring after losing Medicaid coverage and being pushed on-needs. to state-run health insurance not designed for them. Breana Dion is angry.

       Leaders at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ordered staff this week not to release their experts’ assessment that found the risk of catching measles is high in areas near outbreaks where vaccination rates are lagging, according to internal records reviewed by ProPublica.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — separating at least 1300 workers from their jobs, will also likely reduce the amount of educational data that is available

       I started wandering through my childhood and adolescence, trying to figure out how I wound up creating the guy now sitting in front of his computer screen, and I quickly started digging through some of the old journal notebooks I have saved, dating back to tenth grade. In my English class that year, one of the books we were assigned to read was The Diary of Anne Frank. To say it had an impact on me is putting it mildly.            

     In the Trump era, economic policy often comes with more bluster than strategy. His latest round of tariffs is no exception. Slapped on a broad swath of imported goods without rhyme, reason, or regard for the people who will bear the brunt of the cost – American families and workers – these tariffs are a political stunt masquerading as industrial policy.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Numerator found that Black and Hispanic households are reducing their visits to Target at the highest rates.

     Pound Cake and Puzzles of Color are among the small businesses whose owners are rethinking their plans as major U.S. companies weaken their diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The initiatives mostly date from the end President Donald Trump’s first term and entered a new era with the dawn of his second one.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — If there are big cuts to SNAP, “over 285,000 jobs would be at risk” Rep. Bishop pointed out. “Real people are going to be hurt if the $230 billion in SNAP cuts are forced upon the American people,”

       Before the Civil War in 1789, famed Quaker Moses Brown initiated reparations, as documented in Brown University’s  Slavery and Justice report. Callie House, known as the “Matriarch for Reparations,” spearheaded Black demands for restitution. Callie was born in 1861, and basically  grew up free. She raised five kids as a widowed washerwoman living in Nashville. An 1891 pamphlet, Freedmen’s Pension Bill: A Plea for American Freedmen, sparked Callie’s lifelong reparations advocacy.