Author: Carma Henry

Growing the Voices of Our Future The Westside Gazette Newspaper is honored to feature these editorial contributions made by local students. This summer I had the…

 In a distressing incident that has raised concerns about gun control and racial violence, a gunman in Jacksonville carried out a heinous attack driven by apparent racial motivations.

    The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is releasing a brand-new age progressed image of missing child, Shanythia Greene. The image was created by a forensic artist at NCMEC and shows what Shanythia may look like today at 47 years old.

     In a decision that could significantly impact the 2024 race for the White House, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, overseeing the election interference case against former President Donald Trump, has scheduled the trial to commence on March 4, 2024. The date falls during the Republican presidential primaries and just one day before Super Tuesday.

  The original March on Washington, a cornerstone of the civil rights movement, drew approximately 250,000 participants in 1963. Its influence paved the way for significant legislative milestones, including the passage of federal civil rights and voting rights laws in the 1960s

      COVID-19 could raise your risk of developing high blood pressure more than the flu, which is a similar respiratory virus, according to an analysis published in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension. The findings were described as “alarming” by the study’s lead author.

     Despite taking the same risk of death and costly sacrifice to their mental well-being, Black Veterans continue to suffer as mental health services are statistically less accessible for the demographic than their white counterparts.

     What kind of person goes to sleep and wakes up thinking he or she has to go out into an African American community to find unarmed Black people to gun down in broad daylight?

     The legal system is set up for politicians, conglomerations, and public officials to operate with immunity, and otherwise is not subject to formal legal sanctions when they break the law. Most officials are aware that many times they violate the constitution, but because they are rich and White the issue is wiped under the rug.

     In Maryland, the Prince George’s County Public Schools Board of Education believes in the biblical Proverb 22:6 which states, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old enough he will not depart from it.” That is why school officials were determined to implement a policy that trains a child to adopt and practice LGBTQIA+ behaviors at school, then helps the child hide their gender identity from parents.