Carma Henry, Author at The Westside Gazette

NCBCP’S Black Youth Vote to Motivate and Encourage Generation and Millennials to “OWN” their Power and be Counted in the 2020 Census with “#CountMeBlack Youth Census2020 Week”

April 23, 2020 Carma Henry 0

To actively encourage Black youth to focus on being counted in the 2020 Decennial Census, despite the Coronavirus (COVID 19) global pandemic, the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation’s (NCBCP) Black Youth Vote (BYV!) youth civic leadership and power-building program and its Unity Diaspora Coalition (UDC) 2020 Campaign’s national and state-based partner organizations will launch “#CountMeBlack Youth Census 2020 Week (Count Me Black Youth Week),” Monday, April 27 to Friday, May 1, 2020. […]

Wilson Announces $173,585,880 in Emergency Education Funding for Florida’s K-12 Schools

April 23, 2020 Carma Henry 0

Recently, Congresswoman Wilson announced that Florida will receive $173,585,880 million in emergency education funding as a result of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that Congress passed last month. The funding comes from the Governor’s Emergency Edu-cation Relief (GEER) Fund, which allocates nearly $3 billion for governors to use at their discretion to support their state’s K-12 and higher education needs related to COVID-19. […]

Group of Black Women Doctors Bring Free COVID-19 Test Kits to Underserved Neighborhoods

April 22, 2020 Carma Henry 0

PHILADEPHIA, PA — Dr. Ala Stanford and other African American doctors (mostly women) from Pennsylvania have launched the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to provide free mobile coronavirus testing to underserved communities in hopes to prevent further spread of the virus, especially among Black people. […]

Black Sheriff Overcomes Bigotry

April 22, 2020 Carma Henry 0

“They don’t like that I have come in here and excelled at this job,” stated Tony, who began his law enforcement career in 2005 with the Coral Springs Police Department, where he served on the SWAT team for five years and rose to the rank of sergeant. He also worked in narcotics investigation, burglary apprehension, street intelligence, and field force. […]

Pandemic victims are filling NYC’s Hart Island. It isn’t the first time.

April 22, 2020 Carma Henry 0

With record-breaking coronavirus-related deaths overwhelming morgues and mortuaries in New York City, the public cemetery on Hart Island is seeing an increase in burials—from 24 a week to 24 a day. By April 13, more than 10,000 people in the city had died from COVID-19, after daily deaths surpassed 700 for five days. […]

Five-year-old daughter of Detroit first responders dies of coronavirus

April 22, 2020 Carma Henry 0

The five-year-old daughter of two first responders has died in Michigan after a coronavirus infection left her likely brain-dead on a ventilator, her family says. […]

OP-ED: Remembering Dr. Dorothy Irene Height

April 22, 2020 Carma Henry 0

During the early Civil Rights Movement when women worked behind the scenes, her quiet power brought wisdom and a social worker’s perspective to deliberations and strategies of the “Big Six” civil rights leaders. With an understanding of the importance of power of location, she purchased a building in Washington, D.C. between the White House and the Capitol, the only African American-owned building along that corridor of power. […]

Dying to Work — Amazon, Other Frontline Workers Bear Brunt Of COVID-19

April 22, 2020 Carma Henry 0

masks, inefficient sanitizing of workspaces, and failure by some employers to honor the social distancing as re-commended by the CDC to protect themselves from contracting the coronavirus. […]

Health

Siemens Foundation Provides $1.5M Across 12 Community Health Centers to Support COVID-19 Response Efforts

April 22, 2020 Carma Henry 0

The Siemens Foundation today announced it is providing $1.5 million to community health centers across 12 U.S. cities to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. Community health centers are the nation’s largest primary care provider for the medically underserved and uninsured, reaching 29 million of those most in need. […]

Over 2000, Daily Deaths and Trump Ready To Open America

April 22, 2020 Carma Henry 0

Starting the week of 4-20-2020, President Trump has given authorization to begin to open the states in America, who were shut down as a result of the coronavirus – Covid-19. President Trump and his corona-virus task force have announced a plan, which will be formally named, “Opening Up America Again.” These new federal guidelines are extremely short on details and specifics and no coordinated national strategic plan would be implemented. […]