Author: 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

     America’s federal and state governments have maintained a linear path throughout  history of passing laws to establish white supremacy ideology. They’ve also  worked to propagate a stealth systemic  air of white privileges. DeSantis, acting as a misologist, one who hates or dislikes reasoning or arguments, has declared that the AP African American Studies Course is “Inexplicably Contrary to State Law.” 

 History tells us that white slavers sold Black kids conceived with Black slave women, they ordered dogs to attack slaves that ran away or didn’t obey orders, whites brutalized, tortured and killed Black children like Emmit Till with the blessings of lawmen and assassinated Black leaders with the cooperation of federal agents and negro informants.

     For example, on January 3, I generated a series of about one hundred images using the word beautiful in conjunction with the words “kids,” “baby,” and “girl” on the Dall-E. This tool generates images using AI based on written descriptions.

     It’s sad to imagine that Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park will join a list with Uvalde and Buffalo and Orlando and Charleston and Sandy Hook and Columbine, reference points for a national epidemic we haven’t mustered the will to end despite decades of tragedies. But they likely will unless we can confront both the symptom that is gun violence and the underlying disease that causes it.

Frankly Speaking, instead of Speaker of The House he should be called CPA ( Constant Pain in the Azz)

Pompano Beach Cultural Center is proud to present the one-woman show On Purpose, created and performed by renowned poet Ebony Payne-English. Onstage, she paints a vivid picture of femininity at the peak of its strength and in the pit of its vulnerability in the face of an HIV diagnosis. Told from the diverse perspectives of seven women, she weaves poems, monologue, song, rhyme, and colorful vernacular into an exceptional coming of age story