Author: Carma Henry

   Sixteen BCPS high schools have been ranked among the top 26% of schools in the nation in U.S. News & World Report’s 2026/27 Best High Schools rankings. Four — Millennium 6-12 Collegiate Academy, Pompano Beach High School, William T. McFatter Technical High School and Cypress Bay High School — landed within the top 5% nationally.

   For more than seven decades, the Zeta Chi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. has been woven into the history of Black Broward County. Its members have served as attorneys, judges, educators, ministers, businessmen, journalists, public officials, mentors, and community leaders.

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       Among the most significant revelations were records showing Metcalf and his twin brother previously spray-painted racist and antisemitic graffiti, including “KKK Kill All Black People,” “Heil Hitler,” the N-word and an upside-down cross. The brothers received 12 months of juvenile probation through Denton County, according to court records.

       For the most part, primary season is behind us, and we are headed toward the general election in November. Yet the reported voter turnout numbers are paltry. I cannot think of anything more asinine than Black people choosing not to vote. I cannot fathom anything more important than voting. It is the very lifeblood of having a voice in this country.

    This is a fragment of a poem (“Vigil”) I wrote 25 years ago, in response to the “vigil” some gun-rights advocates held in front of a school in Columbine, Colorado, while Bill and Hillary Clinton were in the gym meeting with students, in the wake of the terrible shooting at the local high school. The men held up bright yellow signs reading “Gun Control Kills Kids” and “We Will Never Give Up Our Guns.”

       For a split second, I felt sorry for Stephen A. Smith. But then the outspoken ESPN journalist and political commentator provided a lesson about allyship and representation that caused the solitary tear I could have shed to roll back up into my eye socket.

       As global crises descend around him, Donald Trump seems increasingly inca-pable of a rational response. He rants and rails, threatens and indulges in delusions—and then retreats to one or the other of his vanity projects. This is not a president in control of himself or his position. And it’s costly. Here are the latest examples.

    After the August 10 earthquake in Colombia, rescuers heard a man calling from beneath a collapsed building. He was alive, he said, and he was with a baby. The infant and her mother were eventually rescued.

    The major safeguard against mass starvation around the globe is the World Food Program (WFP), which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2020 for its vital humanitarian work. With hundreds of millions of people in jeopardy thanks to poverty, famines, violent conflict, and extreme weather, this UN agency distributes massive quantities of food aid―last year alone reaching more than 100 million people facing acute hunger―thereby saving millions of lives.