Author: Carma Henry

     Jasmin D. Shirley was the former Sr. Vice President of Community Health Services of the North Broward Hospital District d/b/a Broward Health. For over 15 years, she had oversight of the day-to-day operations of Community Health Services division inclusive of primary care centers, home health and hospice agency, an infusion company, urgent care center, and physician practice. After more than 35 years of experience in health administration, she retired in February 2018. In 2021, the COVID-19 Pandemic ushered forth another opportunity to serve the community and Ms. Shirley was called out of retirement by the Broward Regional Health Planning Council (BRHPC) in December 2021. She accepted the challenge to develop and mobilize a workforce of community health workers and medical professionals engaged to provide education and outreach to non-vaccinated individuals and those experiencing vaccine hesitancy, with the end goal of getting them completely vaccinated and boosted. Shirley now serves as the Program Director of COVID-19 Vaccine Outreach with a team of local health/hospital systems and community-based organizations throughout Broward County.

Pervasive discussions about adolescent crime have revitalized calls for punitive approaches to youth justice that don’t work

     How did an individual so lacking in basic competence come to be the leader of our beloved county’s educational system? The words and attitude hurtle me back to the late 1990s when then-mayor of the City of Fort Lauderdale Robert Cox declared to school children, (paraphrasing) “Anybody can be mayor as long as you are free, white and 21.” The racist expression so roiled the community that Westside Gazette Publisher Levi Henry Jr. responded, (paraphrasing) “You will never hold office again in Broward County.” And he never did.

     Yes! The 2nd Amendment is the Republicans’ and their base’s “Holy Grail. It represents their ultimate desire to have unmitigated rights to own and bare weapons. Consequently, as gun owners, they don’t accept responsibility for guns used to commit mass murders of any kind to whomever. Yet, unbelievably, they’re staunch supporters of  pro-life

       If you really want to stop the “steal”, vote against political liars and seditionists.

Seditious Conspiracy is a Crime That Almost Destroyed Our Democracy

“ Test Your Bible Knowledge”

  At age 21 Kaysia Earley was about to walk across the stage and graduate from college. She was born to a Jamaican father and an American mother and was set to become the first member of her family to graduate from college. Instead, she found herself facing a jail sentence for a felony. She had been working at a popular shoe store and was charged with giving unauthorized discounts to her friends. She was found guilty of embezzlement and faced a possible three-year sentence. To make matters worse, Kaysia was pregnant with her first child. The judge allowed her to attend her graduation from Howard University in Washington, DC. Once the jail found she was pregnant they offered her solitary confinement to accommodate the pregnancy. In all that shame, embarrassment, and stress one thing stood out for Earley: her Public Defender did not utter a word in her defense.

     Captain Craig Calavetta, the Broward Sheriff’s Office official selected as BSO Parkland District Chief last August, was fired by the agency Monday.

The National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB) calls on Congress to enact a major down payment assistance program to help counter decades of housing discrimination in Florida, and nationwide, that prevents Blacks and other people of color from becoming homeowners and facilitating intergenerational wealth.