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     Please join us for the NAACP Eula Johnson 2018 Freedom Fund Luncheon, Saturday, July 28, 2018, at the Signature Grand. This is our annual fundraiser for the Fort Lauderdale/Broward Branch.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Florida and Southern Legal Counsel (SLC) have finalized a settlement in a lawsuit against the City of Fort Lauderdale on behalf of 10 individuals whose property was unlawfully seized and destroyed by city workers in a homeless encampment raid in a downtown park.

     Coach Robert Alton “Pompey” Green celebrated his 90th birthday with loving and devoted family and friend on Sunday, June 16, 2018 at the Lauderhill Performing Art Center.

Joe Trembly, who 30 years ago was a homeless gay man living on the streets of Fort Lauderdale, speaks to LGBTQ community leaders at the Community Foundation of Broward.  The Foundation recently announced the award of five grants totaling $300,000 as part of its Broward Pride program, including a grant to an innovative program championed by Trembly.

Terrius Bruce, who graduated from Tallahassee Community College in May and will attend Florida A&M University this fall as School of the Environment student, is one of about 30 students from across the country chosen to participate in the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) for U.S. Underrepresented Minority Students Summer Program in Costa Rica, which is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Program (LSAMP).

A 2015 Coral Glades High School graduate and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, native is serving in the U.S. Navy as part of the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise, Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC).

Broward Health has named Kim Braxl Cole, CPA, as chief financial officer of Broward Health North.  

CFO Patronis asked intrusive questions of an African-American clemency applicant’s regarding the number of children and number of different mothers to the children. 

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share with you and to those who may find it helpful my experience as a growing boy to young adult

A 2011 Boyd H. Anderson High School graduate and Fort Lauderdale, Florida native, Petty officer Mathew Allen is serving in the U.S. Navy as part of the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise, Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC).