Local News
Plantation native supports the next generation of U.S. Naval Aviation Warfighters
A Plantation, Florida, native is serving in the U.S. Navy supporting the training of naval aviation personnel and air operations. […]
Articles by Carma Henry
National News
Louisiana native and author Ernest Gaines to appear on U.S. stamp
Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation inspired stories of Black struggles that grew into universal tales of grace and beauty, will be depicted on a U.S. postage stamp to be issued in January. […]
National News
Affirmative Action Activists Descend on U.S. Supreme Court
The Leadership Conference Education Fund, in collaboration with the African American Policy Forum, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and other civil rights groups, are rallying outside the U.S. Supreme Court in support of affirmative action. […]
National News
LA City Council Members Refuse Calls to Resign Over Racist Audio Leak
Despite demonstrations and calls to resign from officials as high up as President Joe Biden, LA council members Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo are refusing to leave their seats over their involvement in racist remarks made during a 2021 conversation that leaked earlier this month, per HuffPost. […]
Local News
Debate-Demings pounds Rubio as weak and ineffective
US Senator Marco Rubio took a drubbing from his Democratic opponent Congresswoman Val Demings during their only debate. Demings chastised the two-term senator for supporting abortions without exceptions and his refusal to support efforts to curb gun violence. “How long will you watch people being gunned down in first grade, fourth grade, high school, college, church, synagogue, grocery store, movie theater, a mall and a nightclub and do nothing?” Demings said. Rubio appeared startled and befuddled at the scolding. […]
Opinions
Joe Biden’s Great Recovery
One definition of recovery is, “a return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.” Another is, “the action or process of regaining possession or control of something stolen or lost.” I can’t think of any more appropriate descriptions of the first 20 months of President Joe Biden’s Administration. History records President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the creator of the New Deal, President Harry S. Truman as the initiator of the Fair Deal, and President Lyndon Johnson as the mastermind of the Great Society. I believe historians will one day recognize President Joseph R. Biden as the engineer of the Great Recovery. […]
Local News
Don’t sit this one out: The alarms are ringing all around us
Americans are quick to say, “I don’t get involved in politics,” or “I hate politics.” They are the faithful who recite the doctrine as though it were biblical verse. What they fail to realize is that our love-hate relationship with politics is a consequence of day-to-day life in the greatest democracy in the world. […]
Local News
THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY ANNOUNCES A $1 MILLION MULTI-YEAR GRANT FOR DISNEY STORYTELLERS FUND AT FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY
The Walt Disney Company announced a $1 million grant to Florida A&M University’s (FAMU) School of Journalism & Graphic Communication (SJGC), over the next five years, for the establishment of the Disney Storytellers Fund at FAMU. […]
Religion
Rev. Calvin O. Butt III, pastor of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, dies at 73
Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, pastor of New York’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, and former president of the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, died Friday (Oct. 28). He was 73. The cause of death was not immediately known. […]
National News
At Least 10 Million New Black Voters Likely Headed To Polls Nov. 8
If pollsters believe African Americans are too overwhelmed, distracted or disinterested to vote in the mid-term and 2024 national elections Nov. 8, they have neither heard nor seen the Arc of Justice 22 city votercade that started in Minneapolis on October 8 and recently finished in a celebration village in Jacksonville, Fla. with the goal of Arc registering 10 million more Black voters. […]