Author: Carma Henry

       The NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Tournament field has officially been announced and the MEAC champion has a real upset chance.

        Former Seattle SuperSonics legend Donald Earl “Slick” Watts has died at age 73. Watts, who earned his nickname for his shaved head, was a Sonics fan favorite who was known for his off-kilter headbands and his role as a proponent of Seattle basketball.

Conservatives and Liberals Have a Common Enemy

      David Bohm was a brilliant physicist. In the latter part of World War II, when he was just a graduate student, his PhD supervisor, J. Robert Oppenheimer hired him to help build America’s first atomic (nuclear) bomb. Bohm was so brilliant and his contributions to the bomb project so valuable that his work was immediately classified.

     For over three years, the Russian government has conducted a brutal military invasion, occupation, and annexation of Ukraine―the largest and most devastating military operation in Europe since World War II. Defying Russia’s international obligations―including a peace treaty it signed with Ukraine, a ruling by the International Court of Justice demanding Russia halt its military operations in Ukraine, the UN Charter, and repeated UN General Assembly condemnations of Russian behavior by an overwhelming majority of the world’s nations―the Putin regime has stubbornly persisted with Russia’s imperialist aggression against its smaller, weaker neighbor.

Broward Education Foundation, the sole nonprofit benefitting Broward County Public Schools, joined forces with Florida Power & Light Company during its Power to Care volunteer week, where volunteers read a book to students and helped beautify the front entrance area at Watkins Elementary School in Pembroke Park. The event empowered young readers and sparked their curiosity for learning.

     The Wildcats will open the 2025 slate Aug. 30 at Pitbull Stadium against Florida International. The last match-up between the Wildcats and the Panthers occurred in 2014, when B-CU claimed a 14-12 win over the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) opponent – the second of its kind in as many years against the Panthers.

  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.