Chief Machinist’s Mate Gilbert Laguerre, from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, assigned to USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) engineering department, returns the salutes of Ford’s chiefs mess as he is piped ashore. Ford is currently undergoing its post-shakedown availability at Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport News Shipbuilding.
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Expanded hangar and training facility to accommodate 100 more students per semester By Cindy Schutt PEMBROKE PINES, FLA.–Broward College officials, VIPs and students last…
The Broward County Chapter of the NAACP will lead a march and rally to demand the termination and criminal prosecution of two Florida sheriff deputies who were caught on video punching a 15-year-old African American student and repeatedly slamming the child’s head against concrete pavement.
The honeymoon between Sheriff Greg Tony and Broward County leaders is officially over. Tony declared as much in a heated exchange at the Tamarac City Commission Meeting on April 24.
Tifanny Burks and Chanice Lee, activists with Black Lives Matter Alliance of Broward, led a community forum to address the viral police beating of Delucca Rolle, a 15-year-old Black boy in Tamarac.
Don’t be silence about police brutality This week there has been a lot of police brutality going on towards teens in the community and now the…
We celebrate you for your personal code of ethics, exceptional courage, unwavering conviction and extraordinary grace. It is truly an honor to induct you into our society of Women of Excellence. Congratulations on being named a 2019 Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine and Atlanta Daily World Women of Excellence honoree!
Mentoring Tomorrow’s Leaders (MTL), students from Plantation High School competed in the Florida Education Fund’s 34th Annual Brain Bowl Competition, winning both the regional and state-wide awards. The students competed on February 16, 2019 at the local and regional Atlantic Coast Conference Brain Bowl Competition held at the Urban League of Broward County.
Students can apply for the David E. and Mary J. Pollard Scholarship by logging into the University’s scholarship portal at famuscholarships.com. The portal opened for the 2019-2020 academic year on April 15, 2019 and will remain open until May 31, 2019.
Hiding in the Light is a young adult, action-adventure, coming of age story about the effects of bullying and the measures one rakes to be accepted. Set in the South in the late 1960’s, it’s the journey of Joseph Graham’s efforts to find himself and accept himself while facing the injustices of adversaries. They mock his differences: His looks, his speech, and his thoughts are different from the other boys. This brings unwanted attention from the neighborhood bullies.