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In a lifetime, there are so many achievements to make and opportunities to seize. Not too many people have been given the opportunities as Jayda Washington-Boothe, a twelve-year old girl who has been blessed to make amazing strides so early in life.

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Zeta Rho Omega Chapter, has not missed a beat since the inception and devastation by the COVID 19 Virus. The chapter has continued to operate virtually in this new age that we are in with regards to our International Programs and Sisterly Relations activities.

     It might be true that the more things change, the more they remain the same. But it is also true that to be forewarned is to be forewarned.  I am hoping that with the virus having laid bare the systemic inequality affecting Black lives, those who are interested in equality and social justice know this background, and this time things might be different.

     I get that and understand the symbolism of packed heat. A gun says: We mean business. But that symbolism stops as soon as the trigger is pulled. What the armed protesters could wind up with is a bitter present-day civil war and the blood-stained illusion of change.

     Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued an emergency order Monday requiring all schools to open in the fall and laying out the requirements that districts must meet to offer any sort of nontraditional remote instruction in addition to their in-person option.