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

   FAMU Recruiting Director, Devin Rispress courtesy of Tallahassee Democrat Colorado has gained a major key HBCU Football official to its staff! Florida A&M‘s Athletic Recruiting Director, Devin Rispress announced his departure on Thursday evening. Rispress will join Head Coach Deion Sanders at the University of Colorado.

     When former world No. 1 Osaka and 2022 WTA Finals champion Garcia meet at Melbourne Park, it will be the second time that they are going up against each other. Their previous meeting also came at the Australian Open as the two met three years ago, when Osaka earned a straight-set win in the second round. 

     Florida A&M University (FAMU) School of Business and Industry (SBI) senior Jaeden Patterson is the winner of this year’s Bloomberg Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Trading Challenge, the company announced this week.

     “My conscience leaves me no other choice,” the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.  declared while condemning the Vietnam War on April 4, 1967. He insisted that it was morally imperative for the U. S. to take radical steps to end the war through nonviolent means.

     As a Jew who mourns the death of everyone killed on October 7, and all those killed in the three months since (as well as all the dead over the previous 75 years), I’ve prayed and protested for an end to the fighting. 

A proposal began moving forward Tuesday in the Florida Senate that would ask voters to ditch a program that has given more than $33 million in state matching money to gubernatorial and Cabinet candidates over four recent election cycles.

     As we begin to celebrate the hopes of a dream deferred, let us be mindful that we can not appreciate the fulfillment of the dream unless we rid the temple of RATS.

No figure is more closely identified with the mid-20th century struggle for civil rights than Martin Luther King, Jr. His adoption of nonviolent resistance to achieve equal rights for Black Americans earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. King is remembered for his masterful oratorical skills, most memorably in his “I Have a Dream” speech.

In the aftermath of tornadoes that swept through the Panama City Beach area, local officials reported significant damage. The tornadoes struck several parts of the region, leaving destruction in their wake. Homes, buildings, and infrastructure suffered varying degrees of damage, with some structures being severely impacted or destroyed entirely.