Carma Henry, Author at The Westside Gazette

Wear Your Armor

June 10, 2020 Carma Henry 0

How do we put on spiritual armor? We do so by daily absorbing scripture as truth, living in obedience to God, sharing the gospel and trusting Christ. That’s how to put armor on, study the Word, live according to biblical principles, and believe that we live in a place infused with Jesus’ protection. That knowledge will protect us as we come under spiritual attack. It doesn’t protect us from spiritual attack. But it does it makes us less vulnerable, less susceptible to the ‘devil’s schemes’ i.e. better able to handle what comes at us. […]

The stuff of Dreams — MLK goes right on marching

June 10, 2020 Carma Henry 0

It is shocking that in 2020, mothers in African American and minority communities still have to worry about the safety of their sons and daughters when simply going off to the store, going out for a jog and or being stopped at a traffic light. This must end. […]

Meet the only Black Woman in the U.S. who owns her own bank

June 10, 2020 Carma Henry 0

Meet Kiko Davis, the majority owner and stockholder of Detroit-based First Independence Bank, one of the top 10 largest Black-owned banks in the United States. This makes her the only Black woman in the country who owns a bank. […]

OneUnited Bank, America’s Largest Black Owned Bank Supports Blackout Day 2020

June 10, 2020 Carma Henry 0

OneUnited Bank, the largest Black owned bank in the country, is proud to support #BlackOutDay2020, a national financial movement happening on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. The movement recognizes the need for economic solidarity and requests that not one Black person in America spend a dollar outside of Black owned businesses on July 7. […]

Temptations’ Otis Williams Talks Music, History, and the Temps’ 60th Anniversary

June 10, 2020 Carma Henry 0

Williams’ journey from Texarkana, Texas to Motown and global superstardom, is chronicled in his acclaimed autobiography, “Temptations,” written with The New York Times best-selling author Patricia Romanowski, as well as “The Temptations,” an Emmy Award-Winning television mini-series. […]

Dr. Fauci says we will have 100 million Vaccines by the end of this year

June 10, 2020 Carma Henry 0

“We’re going to start manufacturing doses of the vaccines way before we even know that the vaccine works, so that by the end of the year the prediction of the statistical analysis and the projection of cases indicate that we may know whether its effective, efficacious or not by maybe November, December, which means that by that time we hopefully would have close to a 100 million doses,” Fauci said in early June during a live video interview with the Journal of the American Medical Association. […]

Kareem Abdul Jabbar ‘It’s Important for Athletes to Speak Out’ in Wake of George Floyd Protests

June 10, 2020 Carma Henry 0

“Across America, people of all descriptions got an understanding of what it means to be a Black American, to be singled out and discriminated against,” Jabbar said during the interview, co-hosted by Brandon Brooks, Managing Editor of the Los Angeles Sentinel. […]

Protests, staying healthy, and protecting yourself against COVID-19

June 10, 2020 Carma Henry 0

Lorna M. Johnson, the founder of the Lorna M. Johnson Global Institute and a Los Angeles-based nurse-midwife, nurse practitioner and healthcare executive, is speaking out to the brave citizens protesting for justice, asking them to protect their health as well as the U.S. Healthcare workers who are serving them. […]

When we don’t know

June 4, 2020 Carma Henry 0

That being, the spiritual connective void has created a gateway totally separating us from the thought and presence of the Holy Spirit. […]

SOUTH FLORIDA JOINS THE NATION IN OUTCRY FOR JUSTICE

June 4, 2020 Carma Henry 0

Snapshot from ‘Justice for George Floyd’ protests. (Top left) Sheriff Tony Gregory kneels with local protestors in honor of slained Minnesota man, George Floyd […]