Author: Carma Henry

     Florida A&M University President Larry Robinson, Ph.D., has announced Allyson L. Watson, Ph.D., as provost/vice president for Academic Affairs. Watson, who came to FAMU in 2019 as dean of the College of Education, has served as interim provost/vice president for Academic Affairs since December 2022.

     Last year, FTC returned more than $392 million to more than 1.9 million consumers who registered complaints, according to the agency’s annual report. Auto sales and financing, payday lending, credit repair and debt relief were targets of other successful enforcement in 2022 that benefited consumers in every state.

On Friday, June 16, the Justice Department Released a Comprehensive Report Revealing Systemic Abuses and Discriminatory Actions Within the Department.

     Believe it or not, deed fraud and land theft is very frequent in Harris County, and it happens more often than you think.  As a matter of fact, it recently happened to someone very close to the Forward Times newspaper—its very own owner, Karen Carter Richards.

      Months ahead of the 2024 primaries, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris received a significant endorsement from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the nation’s largest federal employee union, representing 750,000 federal and DC government employees.

      Homer Jones, a Texas Southern alum who played seven seasons in the NFL and is credited with inventing the most widely used touchdown celebration in pro football, died Wednesday at 82-years-old after a battle with lung cancer.

     Last October, Perkins made history as the first openly active gay HBCU football player. He made the announcement in a social media post that went viral.

An administrative law judge Tuesday said a teacher should keep his job after the St. Lucie County School Board moved to fire him for leaving an AK-47 rifle on the center console of his truck in a school parking lot.

     “Few people in South Florida care more about our troubled waters than Thurlow-Lippisch, and her presence on the board — her constant questioning and requests for district officials to put complex topics into language the layman can understand — has been hugely beneficial,” the group, formerly known as Bullsugar, said in a news release Tuesday that described the situation as “a case study of how politics pollutes Florida’s waters.”

People on the Move, June 20, 2023