Author: Carma Henry

Several hours after Hurricane Idalia hit, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday went to rural Taylor County, where debris, downed trees and some power lines littered the roads.

A federal judge on Friday refused to block a new Florida law making it more difficult for transgender adults to access hormone therapy and surgeries.

     The Bethune-Cookman Wildcats’ volleyball team looks to be a much-improved team and ready to make noise in 2023.

         The 2023 Pepsi “National Battle of the Bands” (NBOTB) lived up to the hype once again, as eight of the nation’s top Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) marching bands captivated the crowd of more than 40,000 attendees at Houston’s NRG Stadium on Saturday, August 26th, with their electrifying performances.

     In the final game of the NFL preseason, the Houston Texans squared off against the New Orleans Saints. Inside Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, the Saints and Texans slugged it out through a gritty game that showcased both defenses. Though there were some offensive fireworks, two of the most memorable plays were on the defensive side.

     Bethune-Cookman University begins a new era under first-year Head Coach Raymond Woodie, Jr. This is also the 100th season of football for the program.

Legendary Jamaican-Canadian boxing Heavyweight Champion Donovan “Razor” Ruddock returns to his birthplace of Jamaica for an inaugural match against the International Boxing Hall of Fame Inductee and Champion James “Lights Out” Toney at the mega “Rumble In The Sun” event on Saturday, November 11, 2023, inside Kingston’s iconic Sabina Park.

     At the recent 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Richardson won the Women’s 100 meters in record time – 10.65 seconds, the fastest time in the event’s history. It was her personal best and is .16 seconds behind the 1988 world record set by beloved sprinter Florence ‘Flo-Jo’ Griffith-Joyner. Joyner’s record of 10.49 still stands.

Winning this year’s race makes this Williams’ second World Athletics Championship victory and her third time standing on the podium. She first claimed a world victory in Beijing in 2015 and had previously earned the bronze medal in the 2019 Doha games.

      After the Japanese surrender in 1945, Oppenheimer saw immediately that any nation with adequate resources would be eventually able to build a weapon, and that something as gargantuan as an H-bomb had no possible military function. It could only be a mechanism for genocide.