Author: Carma Henry

     Alumni representing chapters from across the state networked, strategized, raised resources, and got updates on the great things happening every day at FAMU.

BHG Financial has partnered with YMCA of South Florida pledging $100,000 in support of the Y’s mission, as well as BHG’s new feature space in the gymnasium in the new $20 million, four-story, 65,000-sq.-ft. L.A. Lee YMCA/Mizell Community Center on Sistrunk Boulevard. It’s the latest initiative to further strengthen BHG Financial’s philanthropic presence in Florida.

Drawing a national spotlight as he prepares for a potential White House bid, Gov. Ron DeSantis opened the annual legislative session Tuesday by touting the state’s accomplishments and vowing to “swing for the fences so that we can ensure Florida remains number one.”

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson came home to South Florida on Monday to celebrate the renaming of a street in her honor in the community where she grew up.

Few Floridians are aware that the establishment of Americans’ Miranda Rights was set in motion by a 1933 Pompano Beach case where violently coerced confessions almost led to the execution of four Black boys.

The DOJ said Trump’s incitement of the deadly insurrection fell outside the scope of his presidential powers and therefore disqualifies any immunity argument.

     The Transformative Justice Coalition (TJC) announced that the group plans to come to Florida and join the resistance to Governor DeSantis and Republican Party “anti-woke” policies. Those policies aim  to finish stripping away  freedoms like the 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act. 

President Biden awarded the Medal of Honor to Paris Davis, a retired U.S. Army colonel and one of the first Black officers in the Green Berets, for heroism during the Vietnam War nearly 60 years ago, honoring his service at a White House ceremony on Friday.

Antoinette Paris-Hudson, a 28-year-old African American pilot, made history as the third Black female to become a Captain for PSA Airline. Most recently, she received a job offer from American Airlines, the largest airline in the world.

  Dr Hadiyah-Nicole Green is the first doctor to cure cancer using nanoparticles The Modems Home About Tech Lifestyle Fashion Beauty Interviews Image courtesy The Scientist Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green is the physicist who has been the first person to successfully cure cancer in mice using laser nanoparticles.