Author: Carma Henry

     New Mount Olive Baptist Church, 400 Northwest Ninth Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, will host the 47th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Service on Sunday, January 15, 2023, at 4:00 P.M.   The service will be sponsored by the Zeta Alpha Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

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     History was made on Wednesday (January 4) when Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla joined Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. as a nominee for House Speaker, marking the first time two Black lawmakers have been up for the chamber’s top position. ‘

     Virginia contractor Devon Henry was called from the office of former Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to join the effort in taking down statues honoring the Confederacy. According to The Washington Post, Team Henry Enterprises was nearly a last resort given the “overtly racist” refusals from other white-owned companies.

     In the 1920s, the beach resort was extremely popular with African American tourists. At that time, Black people were not permitted on white beaches.

The City of Tamarac, in collaboration with Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®, Chi Psi Omega Chapter, invites the community to a Unity March to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, commitment to service and dream of togetherness.

        A judge moved Lt. Caron Nazario’s million-dollar lawsuit forward against the two Virginia police officers who pepper-sprayed him during a traffic stop, per ABC News. Nazario says what the officers claimed to be a routine traffic stop resulted in an illegal car search and false imprisonment.

      Slave ownership is only tacitly presented in US schools. There are many aspects of slavery that have been left to the dim mists of history. This week we illuminate the price to own a human being. A repulsive topic, but you have a responsibility to know it. We have always been an oral society. The elders would pass on the history and rituals of our culture. The current political posture is to not educate our students on the full pain of the Black diaspora in America! 

“We are witnessing the transition to steady and stable growth that I have been predicting for months,” Biden said.