Author: Carma Henry

        Legacy Ball founder Audrey Warren, still on cloud nine after detailing the overwhelming support from the West Park/Carver Ranches community, symbolically passed the mic to Cynthia Strachan-Saunders, but only after Stephanie Bevel extolled Cynthia’s special talent as a historian, which led to her publishing, Promises from the Palmetto Bush, a detailed account of Carver Ranches’ genesis as a community.

NNPA NEWSWIRE — we acknowledge the transformative contemporary benefit to the amplification of the strategic importance of the Black Press that will be rendered by the courage and professional effectiveness of April Ryan.

Today, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and United Way Miami proudly welcomed the first class of students to the pilot Pre-Apprenticeship Program, which will prepare them with technical skills and knowledge required for a potential career as lineworkers.

“No matter who’s in the White House, they’re not daddy,” Chavis remarked with a decisive rebuke of the congressman.

President Donald Trump’s flurry of first-day executive actions included a slew of orders related to health, energy, international relations and the federal workforce.

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Biden’s broad act of clemency also included others like Don Scott, the current Speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates, who transformed a past drug conviction into a catalyst for advocacy in criminal justice reform. Ravi Ragbir, an immigrant rights activist; Kemba Smith Pradia, a former drug offense convict turned prison reform advocate; and Darryl Chambers, a Delawarean who now studies and writes about gun violence prevention, were also granted clemency.

NNPA NEWSWIRE — The preemptive pardons, described by Biden, aim to prevent the “baseless and politically motivated investigations” that could harm the reputations and finances of those targeted. He emphasized, “Even when individuals have done nothing wrong—and in fact have done the right thing—the mere fact of being investigated or prosecuted can irreparably damage reputations and finances.”

   After serving as a pillar of business advocacy and development for over half a century, the Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce has reached a defining moment: securing its first permanent headquarters in Liberty City.

       “It helped me to relax. It helped me to focus. I wasn’t thinking about my parents and sometimes I did. Sometimes I cried on those puzzle pieces. I always said if these puzzle pieces could talk, the things that they would say…I would have my hot tea and sometimes I would listen to music while I was puzzling. And sometimes it would be quiet. It just made me feel calm, peaceful.”

        Cases of norovirus have been surging around the United States in recent weeks. Norovirus is a very contagious pathogen that is the primary cause of diarrhea and vomiting in the US, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 2.2 million outpatient medical visits and 465,000 emergency department visits are due to this virus every year.