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   Commissioner Melissa P. Dunn and the Lauderhill Health & Prosperity Partnership hosted Breaking Bread at West Ken Lark Park—an inspiring event centered on intergenerational workforce development and mentorship.

   The City of Pembroke Pines invites you to participate in the 20th Annual Art Competition. Artists 18 years or older residing in the tri-county area (Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach counties) are eligible to participate. Accepted artworks will be on display at Studio 18 Art Complex from May 16 to August 4, 2025.

       Before the Civil War in 1789, famed Quaker Moses Brown initiated reparations, as documented in Brown University’s  Slavery and Justice report. Callie House, known as the “Matriarch for Reparations,” spearheaded Black demands for restitution. Callie was born in 1861, and basically  grew up free. She raised five kids as a widowed washerwoman living in Nashville. An 1891 pamphlet, Freedmen’s Pension Bill: A Plea for American Freedmen, sparked Callie’s lifelong reparations advocacy. 

     Nearly every Tesla dealership in the United States and the world had 100 to 500 peaceful protestors out front Saturday March 29.  Elon Musk’s electric car company earned rebuke, 6-week sales slumped continued, stock values dropped by half, and large stockholders sold out.  Telsa’s destruction is Elon Musk’s payback for his role in firing hundreds of thousands of federal workers and crippling and destroying federal programs illegally without Congress approval.