Author: Carma Henry

HEARD Funeral services for the late Sharnae Keyera Akita Heard – 68 were held March 25th at House of God Church Keith Dominion State Complex. LEWIS…

ALEXANDER Funeral services for the late George B. Alexander, Sr. – 79 were held March 17th at James C. Boyd’s Memorial Chapel. …

HOLMES Funeral services for the late Mary Lou Holmes – 84 were held March 18th at McWhite’s Funeral Home Chapel. SLATER Funeral services for the late…

ALLEN Funeral services for the late David Cornelius Allen – 57 were held March 18 at First Bethel Baptist Church with Rev. Doctor GB Pope, Pastor/Teacher.…

     There are nuanced arguments made about what caused the Great Migration. It has made fertile suppositions for several books and lecture series. The idiom “Greener Pastures” is the Twitter version. After the sedition by the South was quelled, they refused to change the social dynamics between the races. This brutal inequality persisted across the South and the segregationist tool, “Jim Crow” would become the law of the land.

         Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated’s Premier Florida Chapter in Fort Lauderdale, Delta Eta Zeta, received approval from the City of Fort Lauderdale to participate in its Adopt-A-Street program.

     Florida A&M has hired former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson as an ambassador and consultant, the school announced Wednesday.

      Colorado, you can have Deion Sanders. I hope he enjoys Boulder which he claims has “no crime,” and I hope the university enjoys him until he moves on to a job with more money and prestige and says that he was instructed by God to do so. I also hope that Jackson State continues to thrive sans the man with the gold whistle who doesn’t allow earrings in meetings. Another HBCU — Howard University — is seeing a surge in athletic success. It has been pursued away from the spotlight, but recently the fruit of the programs labor has been plentiful.

A fungus that poses “an urgent antimicrobial resistance threat,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has already been detected in more than half of U.S. states.

 America’s justice system has historically proven to be extremely partial towards wealthy white people and  positively skewed for ordinary whites. It wasn’t by happenstance that a white privileged justice system and society were created. No, it’s chiseled  into the cornerstones as well as the  pillars of our democracy. The  Merriam Webster Dictionary defines white Privilege as:  “the set of social and economic advantages that white people have by virtue of their race.”