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

Bank of America today announced that HANDY and Take Stock in Children of Broward County, Inc. (TSIC) have been named as the 2022 Bank of America Neighborhood Builders® awardees for their work in Broward County to remove economic barriers and advance economic opportunity. With a multi-year grant from the bank, the two organizations will expand programs and services that are addressing housing, education, employment, and basic needs for families and underserved youth.

 Dixon is an HBCU graduate herself, having earned a Bachelor of Science with distinction from Tennessee State University (TSU) in speech communications and theater. She has certificates in Corporate Community Involvement and Nonprofit Leadership from the Boston College Carroll School of Management.

     The Green Haven Project is a nonprofit with a focus on creating community gardens and sustainable ecosystems in areas that are predominantly known as food deserts. Food deserts are urban areas where residents generally reside in low-income housing with little to no access to fresh produce within a ten-mile radius.

Last week’s column covered the myriad successes achieved by the Dillard girl’s cross country team under the dynamic leadership of Coach Davidson Gill. In an effort to highlight, educate and create more interest in a sport surely deserving, I wanted to chronicle the successes of the women’s and men’s championship teams: North Carolina State University (women) and Northern Arizona University (men).

I also understand and see that this board most of them are exhibiting characteristics with that statement, that is recorded in the law from Brown versus the Board of Education Topeka, Kansas, “that with all deliberate speed” our educational system will be made equal. It is obvious that this board is extremely incompetent, malfeasant, and do not, I repeat do not want change.