A little known fact is that Atlanta’s first Black millionaire, Alonzo Heandon, was born a slave in 1858. He lived as a slave child of his master, Frank Herndon, for seven years before Emancipation.
Author: Carma Henry
Carma Henry
Carma Lynn Henry Westside Gazette Newspaper 545 N.W. 7th Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33311 Office: (954) 525-1489 Fax: (954) 525-1861
Maintaining a healthy weight is important to healthy aging. It can reduce the risk of cancer, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, breathing problems and high blood pressure, according to The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
Wake up Broward County! The next Tiger Woods may be prowling on a course near you. Recently my Omega fraternity brother, Adrian Link, approached me about possibly doing a feature story on golf phenom Patrick Pinckney, noteworthy of late for having defeated Tiger Woods’ son Charlie in a recent match.
The 2023 Final Four is poised to be the land of the unknown. UConn is the only team still standing with a national championship to its name. Neither Creighton nor San Diego State has ever been to a Final Four. Prior to last Friday, Florida Atlantic had never even won an NCAA tournament game as a program.
Throughout the University of Miami basketball’s dream season, Jordan Miller was always kind of an afterthought.
A heavily armed former student shot through a locked school door before killing three children and three staff members at a private Christian campus in Nashville on Monday, authorities said.
The War on Gun Violence Has Failed. And Black Men Are Paying the Price.
On a cool star-studded evening at the Arden Theater Company, one of Philadelphia’s premier theaters, hosted the Blues Babe 16th Foundation Anniversary. The Blues Babe Foundations (BBF) is the brainchild of soulful sultry (sensuous) singer / poet, Jill Scott. The life she has lived has inspired her to help young children make dreams happen through education and the arts.
Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson, two high school students from New Orleans, Louisiana have reportedly solved an “impossible” math problem and presented it at a recent conference where they were the only high schoolers.
Former President Donald Trump has ramped up the rhetoric and the threats as potential criminal charges loom in New York, Georgia, and Washington.