Author: Carma Henry

     Instead of a final resolution on America’s borrowing ability, the enacted bill provides a two-year window for the Treasury Department to borrow – as needed – funds to pay the nation’s already more than $31 trillion of debt. When January 2025 arrives, a new session of Congress will face the deferred problem. Until then, according to the Congressional Budget Office, cutbacks on discretionary spending would result in a drop in projected budget deficits of about $4.8 trillion over the next decade, and a savings of $0.5 trillion in interest.

     Authoritarian law-makers and legislatures have introduced close to 1,000 pieces of hateful legislation across the country. While many Americans are disgusted and outraged, the voices we’re hearing loudest and clearest are those of a vocal minority determined to roll back 70 years of progress. They deliberately are attacking and attempting to dismantle our democracy, stripping whole groups of people of their basic civil rights.

     On Sunday March 26, 2023, the sun shone brightly across clear blue skies as Dania Beach residents carried on with their typical midday routines. However, one Dania Beach resident had to pinch herself to make sure she wasn’t dreaming.

Nubian artistic excellence is the calling card for Gordon Parks. In 1969 he became the first Black person to write and direct a major Hollywood studio feature film, “The Learning Tree,” based on his best selling novel. Two years later he continued breaking new cinematic directorial ground with the 1971 movie “Shaft.” That movie was not only a hit, but it had wide critical acclaim. That movie is recognized as the vanguard movie for “Blaxploitation” cinema of that era. Academic racism was why Mr. Parks’ work was never compared to his White peers, like Spielberg, Hitchcock and Scorsese. If academicians had compared them, they would find a resume that overshadowed those premiere directors.

      Pompano Beach Arts is honored to announce the new group exhibition, Fin, which celebrates the achievements of the 2022/2023 Artists in Residence (AiR) at Bailey Contemporary Arts (BaCA) will run through June 30, 2023. The exhibition features works created by the artists during their 9-month residency and opened with a glamorous vernissage party, which was attended by a who’s who of arts, community, and political leaders. Learn more about this exhibition at www.pompanobeacharts.org

ON THURSDAY June 8, 2023, the Eta Nu Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. held its annual Talent Hunt Program, one of the fraternity’s mandated observances. Parents, community partners, friends, and chapter members converged at the E. Pat Larkins Complex to celebrate and observe the extraordinarily, talented contestants, many of whom attend Dillard High’s School of the Performing Arts: Va ‘Kiel Harris ( Piano Solo),  Manasseh Etienne (Violin Solo), and Issac Delva (Piano Solo).  A fourth contestant, Talia Mitchell, performed also.

Ben Crump wants ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Abolished after Florida Mom Fatally Shot Through Closed Door

     The shooting of 11-year-old Aderrien Murry by a Mississippi police officer is a reminder of a rather common trend in America’s policing: Black children often get treated as or mistaken for crime suspects.

The FAMU Sports Hall of Fame will hold its 47th Enshrinement Weekend from Friday, September 22 through Saturday, September 23 on the University campus. Venue and Ticketing details will be released shortly.

      Florida A&M University’s football field at Bragg Memorial Stadium could soon have a new name in honor of NFL Hall of Famer Ken Riley — and the same goes for FAMU’s softball field that is expected to be named after former head softball coach Veronica Wiggins.