Author: Carma Henry

     This month marks the August 28, 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, where over a quarter million people gathered and heard my Uncle Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – fondly remembered as “Uncle M. L. – deliver his famous “I Have a Dream Speech.” “

The Mount Hermon African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church of Fort Lauderdale has a rich and glorious history as a proud member of the oldest predominantly Black denomination in the United States. Founded in 1906, Mount Hermon is the oldest A.M.E. church and the second oldest Black church in the Fort Lauderdale area.

Bible Trivia 1) It was white like a coriander seed, and it tasted like honey cakes” What? 2)Only one woman has the age when she died…

JONES Funeral services for the late Alex Jones will be held August 26 at Cathedral Church of God. PINNOCK Funeral services for the late Louise Pinnock…

DESOUZA Funeral services for the late David Antonio DeSouza – 81. HENZIE Funeral services for the late Eleanor Henzie -…

AZOR Funeral services for the late Pierre Azor – 18 years-old – were held August 19th at Mc-White’s Funeral Home Chapel. …

     Paramount Global has pulled out of a deal to sell BET Media Group to renowned filmmaker Tyler Perry.

     The National Hurricane Center on Friday morning was watching four weather systems in the Atlantic Ocean, with one expected to bring rain to South Florida this weekend. A storm listed as Disturbance 4 was just north of Hispaniola and is expected to sweep across Florida as it moves toward the western Gulf of Mexico next week.

Dr. McNair was an academic prodigy and began studying calculus math at 9-years-old. This precocious 4th grader should have been learning his introductory multiplication tables. In 1959 the police were called to remove a young menace to the backwater town library of Lake City, SC. It was a tiny snapshot of how craven the Jim Crow era was for our society. The White librarian proved to be a heinous recreant and told a little boy he could not read a book!

     “Men don’t want to seek any type of medical support, whether it be mental health or physical health. A lot of studies and surveys show that men are afraid; that there is some sort of belief that they are weak if they go to the doctor,” says Dr. Delvena Thomas, a board-certified psychiatrist and qualified medical marijuana physician based in Fort Lauderdale.