Author: Carma Henry

     We have just been inundated with a record setting amount of rain. As with unexpected calamities, there is an abundant amount of destruction and heartaches. As I roamed through the streets of Broward County, especially in the city of Fort Lauderdale, I’ve seen damage, intense emotional stress, with a sense of hopelessness.

The State of Black America, which also drew from information from the Brennan Center, noted that the FBI reported that white supremacists posed a “persistent threat of lethal violence” that has produced more fatalities than any other category of domestic terrorists since 2000.

     A White 84-year-old homeowner who allegedly shot and wounded Ralph Yarl, a Black teen, after the 16-year-old went to the wrong home to pick up his siblings will face two felony charges, Clay County attorney Zachary Thompson announced early Monday evening.

      A teenage boy who was killed in a mass shooting that erupted at his sister’s 16th party in Alabama over the weekend died as he pushed the birthday girl to safety, his sister said.

Erica and Aaron Parker first had their Loveland, Ohio, home appraised in 2020. It was a competitive selling market, they had made several renovations to the home, and houses in the neighborhood were generally selling above the asking price.

Instead of dragging the sands, Ol’ Pete has been treading water. More than 25 inches of water settled in parts of Broward County which resulted in schools shutting down for two days last week. But, a little rain didn’t stop Tuesday’s Board meeting. The Superintendent and Board Members came back together to finalize their decision on two fellow Board members accused of inappropriate touching. Zeman slapped one of the Executive level employees on the buttocks in the Board room back in December.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee called on Chief Justice John Roberts to investigate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s extravagant travel arrangements, which were funded by a Republican donor and that they believed to be in violation of the moral standards expected of “any person in a position of public trust.” Chairman Richard Durbin and the other 10 Democratic members of the committee wrote to Roberts announcing that the committee would hold a hearing on the subject in the upcoming days.

– School started in 1997 by Dr. Rosa Lawson with 23 students. Central Charter School was one of the first charter schools in Broward County. We currently have almost 1200 students.

Our Voices: Festival of Words, is a free family friendly community festival that will celebrate the diversity and joy of literature through a full day of activities, including performances, author readings, children’s activities, meditation garden, food trucks, music and much more. The festival is hosted by Art Prevails Project, a Browardbased cultural arts social impact organization working to strengthen communities through creative and performing arts, in partnership with the local community.

In 2021, the Sentencing Project reported that the imprisonment rate for Black women – at 62 per 100,000 – was 1.6 times the rate of imprisonment for white women – 38 per 100,000.