Author: Carma Henry

On March 15, 2025, Lilly Pulitzer’s Downtown Delray Beach shop hosted a fundraiser that benefitted the Frances J. Bright Woman’s Club.  Proceeds from purchases will be donated to the woman’s club for their debutante program and scholarships. Sweet treats from Palermo’s Bakery were served at the shopping party.   Delray Beach native Lori J. Durante served as one of the volunteer co-hosts of the fundraiser that benefitted the historically Black woman’s club that raises scholarship monies for aspiring high school girls. In 2010, Durante had the honor of curating an exhibition about the history of the Lilly Pulitzer brand, the iconic prints and met the company’s namesake founder.

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — The emergency application follows a March 13 ruling by U.S. District Judge William Alsup, who ordered the Trump administration to reverse the mass terminations at the Departments of Veterans Affairs

     Hilary Creary has made history as the second Jamaican American to serve as a Magistrate in Florida’s 17th Judicial Circuit.

      The 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize has been awarded. On the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s 1861 inauguration, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced that Edda L. Fields-Black, author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War” (Oxford University Press), is the recipient of the 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize.   

     In 2003, Bill doubled down on his longstanding appreciation of that work by establishing the Eyejammie Fine Arts Gallery devoted to hip-hop photography. In 2015, after the gallery’s closing, The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture acquired 400 Eyejammie photo prints by 59 different photographers.

A new bill, SB 676, is making waves in the Florida Legislature as it proposes allowing certain workers to be paid less than the state’s minimum wage. This legislation has ignited a heated debate among lawmakers, business owners, and workers alike. The bill is aimed at younger workers and those in the tourism industry.

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        The daughter of former Atlanta Mayor and Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young has died, the family confirmed on Saturday.

   Life, liberty, and free will are sacred gifts to humankind, while morality and freedom are humanity’s greatest contributions. Yet, regardless of wealth or status, all must face life’s equalizers: liberty, tribulations, and death.