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     Wasserman Schultz announced her candidacy last week, seeking to represent the heavily Democratic Broward-and-Palm Beach-based district after major changes to Florida’s congressional map reshaped her current seat. Her entry immediately transformed the race into a high-profile contest featuring longtime political figures, community activists, and former elected officials. 

During a Special School Board Meeting, members of the Broward County School Board presented a proclamation honoring the life, vision, and enduring legacy of Levi Henry Jr. to the Henry family and staff of the Westside Gazette, recognizing his lifelong commitment to community service, leadership, and advocacy throughout Broward County and beyond.

       Republican lawmakers in Tennessee approved a controversial new congressional map that removes the state’s only majority-Black U.S. House district, centered around the city of Memphis. The decision has sparked protests, lawsuits, and national debate over voting rights and representation.  

       At 46 years old, I’ve lived long enough to know that silence is rarely accidental. It’s often a choice, one shaped by comfort, fear, exhaustion, or the belief that what’s happening doesn’t quite touch our front door yet. I’ve also learned this: silence has a sound. You may not hear it immediately, but over time it echoes, carrying consequences far beyond the moment we chose not to speak.

       Too many Black people heard truth come from Malcolm’s mouth yet discounted truth because it could not be right, it came from “a non-believer;” from someone not baptised in the faith, in Eurocentric Christianity. Beset by classical conditioning, beaten through the body into maimed minds, the African that left many doors of no return, survived horrible slave ships in crossing the Atlantic Ocean to centuries of chattel slavery, years of Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, legal discrimination, drugs and mass incarceration, heard truth and found a way to run from it, to hide somewhere in no man’s land, to so-called freedom!

 Free celebration of liberty with special guests, performers and activities

Florida Emancipation Day Block Party, Saturday, May 23, 2026 from 4:30 to 9:00 p.m., at Ali Cultural Arts Center, 353 NW 1st Street, Pompano Beach, FL 33060. Free and open to the public

   This begins a series of articles that provide actionable tools to integrate conversations about legacy, estate planning, and asset protection into your everyday life with your family, across the generations, in a way that makes it easy. You’ll do so with confidence. And your family will thank you. They’ll feel heard, included, and empowered. No longer will legacy be a shunned, unspoken, abandoned topic until a crisis. Your family won’t be one that falls prey to the turmoil that comes from avoidance.

On April 26, 2026, it was all that jazz at the Great Gatsby 1920s themed 57th annual Debutante Cotillion of the Frances J. Bright Woman’s Club. Held at the Woodfield Country Club in Boca Raton, Florida, 12th grade debutantes were presented to society at the black-tie ball where FPL was a Gold sponsor. The students were uplifted by words of encouragement from the evening’s guest speaker State Attorney Alexcia Cox.

       On April 25, 2026, friends and family gathered in celebration of the 60th wedding anniversary of Floyd and Jewell Johnson who were joined in matrimony, April 18, 1966. The Johnsons were high school sweethearts in Richmond, Virginia and made their way to Florida after Mr. Johnson’s military service and education in California.