Author: Carma Henry

       Myrtis Louise Hall Mason was a dedicated and committed teacher who started her teaching career in Armstrong, Florida (also in St. Johns County). She then moved to Excelsior Elementary in St. Augustine to teach, along with her husband, Otis, in the same classroom where she was once a student. Ironically enough, she taught just down the hall from her then mother-in-law, who was still working. She loved teaching students in first and second grades, where she could see their progress from the first day of school to the last. To this day, many former students credit her with patiently guiding their hands while learning to write their names.

       In “Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People,” Tiya Miles—a professor of history at Harvard University and MacArthur Fellowship recipient—draws on a plethora of sources, such as newspaper accounts, dictated letters and the experiences of enslaved women in an elegant, evocative, and empathetic account of Harriet Tubman’s “faith journey.”

       He would have taken any job here that paid the bills. What Bakewell didn’t envision was that the one he got — a community organizing gig — would set him on a path to power, as a civil rights leader, a property developer, a business tycoon and publisher of the Los Angeles Sentinel, the city’s legendary Black newspaper.

        With a little over a month before the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics, the top American track and field athletes are looking to earn an opportunity to compete for gold.

        In a groundbreaking move, the Florida High School Athletic Association (FHSAA) recently approved Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rights for high school athletes, allowing them to profit from their brand.

        The reigning Celebration Bowl champion Florida A&M Rattlers enter the 2024 season with a completely different team roster from the previous year.

chromatic black™ has been appointed to “Stop Project 2025 Task Force,” a newly formed working group spearheaded by U.S. Congressional Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA-02) to stop the Maga Plan, also known as Project 2025, to roll back key policies and programs for American democracy.  As part of the new “Stop Project 2025 Task Force,” chromatic black™ will partner with Democratic Congressional leaders, civic leaders, and community activists to amplify efforts to educate and mobilize the public about Project 2025 and a conservative agenda to dismantle civil, women’s and LGBTQ+ rights, decades of progress pertaining to climate change, public education, and immigration reform

     The southeast of Louisiana, dubbed “Cancer Alley,” is historically known for the proximity of toxic factory plants to its majority Black community resulting in decades of serious health issues and cancer diagnoses. Well, a new study says the conditions are even worse than we thought.

 Winners included The Washington Informer, Texas Metro News, Houston Forward Times, Houston Defender, Insight News, Minneapolis Spokesman-Recorder, Los Angeles Sentinel, New York Amsterdam News, and Seattle Medium.

       The Miami Dolphins agreed to sign safety Marcus Maye on Monday, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told The Associated Press.