Author: Carma Henry

       Major League Baseball outfielder Hank Aaron never hit more than 50 home runs in a season, a mark that some of the top sluggers in baseball history have often surpassed. But Aaron didn’t need to have an eye-popping number of single-season home runs to become the game’s all-time home run leader in 1974. 

       League Baseball outfielder Barry Bonds capped off a record-setting season by hitting his 70th home run. That long ball would tie him with former Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire for the most home runs in a season. Bonds finished that season with 73 home runs, a record that stands to this day.

   Florida State University’s Civil Rights Institute (CRI) — in partnership with the Department of English, the Frances Cushing Ervin Chair in American Literature, and the African American Studies Program — presents a two-day intergenerational dialogue about the future of Black artistic expression and activism.

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     The Biden administration is putting $1.5 billion toward four electric power projects, including a connection to the Southeast for Texas’s isolated grid, it announced Thursday.

– Recently  UNCF (United Negro College Fund), the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization, proudly unveiled its 2024 HBCU Economic Impact Report. The report, Transforming Futures: The Economic Engines of HBCUs, commissioned by UNCF’s Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute (FDPRI), is a comprehensive, data-driven analysis highlighting the substantial contributions the nation’s 101 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) make to their students, local communities and the nation at large.

     After significantly moving up last year, FAMU has made a huge leap once again as it jumped to No. 81 in the latest rankings – 10 spots from 91st place in 2023 when the university rose by 12 spots from No. 103 to meet a long-time goal of joining the Top 100.

The leader of a nonprofit representing the Haitian community invoked a private-citizen right to file charges Tuesday, Sept. 24 against former President Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, over the chaos and threats experienced by Springfield, Ohio, since Trump first spread false claims about legal immigrants there during a presidential debate.

       Chrissy is Jamaican, resides in Coral Springs, and is an educator.  She enjoys every aspect of beauty, fashion, family, teaching and engaging with her students, but most of all she is a woman of God.  Chrissy decided to try something new, with the encouragement of her designer Judith Barnes, decided to enter a pageant in Dubai. 

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