Author: Carma Henry

Pompano Beach Arts is proud to announce the headlining acts for Jazz Fest Pompano Beach 2024. Grammy® Award-winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis, one of the most iconic jazz musicians of our time, leads a stellar lineup of internationally renowned artists including Ms. Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton, David Sanchez, and Najee.

     Now completed, The Souls at Sea Quilt will be donated during the on-land portion of the ceremony at 1 p.m., Saturday, August 19, 2023, at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, MD. USC members and their guests will then take to their sailboats and the waters to conduct the second portion, an on-water ancestral libation and remembrance ceremony.

Dorian Smith, MSW, MBA, and Michael Watson, MBA, have joined the leadership team of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Broward County as Vice President of Development and Vice President of Programs, respectively. These new positions reflect the growth and impact of the nonprofit’s mission to ignite the power and promise of youth by establishing professionally supported mentoring relationships.

   The FBI is searching for a member of the Proud Boys who was scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Washington on Friday but is now missing, according to court records and the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

     Two years later, she opened her law office in the Jefferson Bank Building and immediately began her long participation in the Civil Rights Movement. In the NAACP’s Brewton v. the Board of Education of St. Louis in 1949, Freeman, Sidney Redmond, Robert Witherspoon, and Henry Espy were the attorneys who argued that case to victory. In 1954, the same year of Brown v. the Board of Education, she was the lead attorney for the landmark NAACP case, Davis et al v. the St. Louis Housing Authority, ending racial discrimination in housing. 

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia The district attorney’s office in Tennessee has dismissed between 30% and 40% of cases linked to the…

 For more than a year, Erica Wilson-Price has been trying to navigate life without her son, who was killed with his best friend in a drive-by shooting outside a popular Miramar seafood restaurant.

Florida A&M University (FAMU) has announced the appointment of Mary Simmons, Ph.D., RRT, as the new dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences (SOAHS), effective immediately.

     Nwagwu found the school that checked all those boxes, as the McCalla, Alabama native has committed to Alabama State.

   With the 2023 HBCU football season approaching, the Black College Football Hall of Fame has announced its annual Black College Football Player of the Year watch list.