Author: Carma Henry

Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861

       War is not just a headline on a screen. War represents real people, real families, and real lives being changed forever. While leaders make decisions in offices far away, it is everyday people who feel the impact. It is soldiers who leave their loved ones, families who lose someone they care about, and communities that struggle to rebuild after conflict.

       On Thursday evening, at the historic Mt. Hermon AME Church in Fort Lauderdale, under the spiritual leadership of Rev. Henry E. Green III, the church, in collaboration with the Fort Lauderdale Branch of the NAACP, hosted a District 20 Congressional Political Forum. NAACP President Marsha Ellison also served as the evening’s moderator.

     When Veneita Dempster began experiencing weeks of shortness of breath and a persistent cough, her family knew something wasn’t right. They brought the 102-year-old Tamarac resident to Broward Health Coral Springs, where caregivers discovered she had outlived her pacemaker.