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       For generations, education has been the single most powerful tool for community advancement and economic impact. Right here in Fort Lauderdale and across South Florida, our African American community understands that a high-quality education is the key that unlocks doors. At Broward College, we are committed to being an institution built on achievement, ensuring that every resident has an equitable pathway to success.

While they draw, let us erase

By Bobby R. Henry, Sr. As a former athlete, I learned that competition is not about asking the other team to leave its best player at home.…

   America’s constitutional system design attempted to prevent the concentration of power in any single branch of government. Yet critics argue that the nation is witnessing a troubling erosion of those safeguards.  Elected officials and institutions are increasingly placing partisan objectives above their constitutional responsibilities. The central question is, “why are elected officials  betraying their constitutional oath?

    Woody Guthrie proudly sang “This land is your land, this land is my land / From California to the New York island,” but, in fact, the conversion of vast public resources and wealth to private property is one of the defining dynamics of American history. The political economist Thorstein Veblen called this process “The American Plan:” the conversion of public resources into private hands as fast as possible.

     The kids in my neighborhood were surrounded by higher education. We just didn’t know the impact that it would have. We knew a lot about Black colleges at an early age. At that time, they weren’t called Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

    President Donald Trump hates to lose, but he is on a losing streak in the Middle East—not just in Iran, where his illegal, unprovoked war has been a strategic and diplomatic disaster, but also in Gaza, Lebanon, and the US Congress. Israel’s military is out of control in Gaza and Lebanon. Trump surely doesn’t mind that happening in Gaza, except that his prized Board of Peace is powerless to remake the strip into a showcase of peace and prosperity. In Lebanon, Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu don’t see eye to eye on strategy, obstructing Trump’s desperate hope for an agreement with Iran that will take the war out of the public eye. And in the US Congress, Trump has just watched as Republican defectors have given the anti-Iran war members an unprecedented victory, putting further pressure on Trump to find an exit.

    This is Britain’s new prime minister, Winston Churchill, speaking in 1940, just as World War II has opened its jaws. In that context, yes, his words make sense, but the paradox hiding in those words – the speech titled “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat” – is that with victory there may be no survival either. The Good War gave us, of course, the nuclear bomb. It gave us much of the military hell that’s happened in my lifetime. It also gave us, along with a multi-trillion-dollar annual global military budget, a sense of eternal necessity to be ready for the next evil monster who wants to get us.

     The history of America is not credible without examining the enduring influence of white supremacy as both an ideology and a political plot. At its core, ideology has historically pursued two objectives. First, it promoted the belief that white people occupied a superior position within society. Second, and perhaps more as a deceitful and  delusional strategy, it sought to convince poor and working-class white Americans that they shared a common destiny with wealthy white elites. Despite they often suffered the same economic hardships experienced by Black Americans and other marginalized groups.

       Can’t we establish a common cause organized body that shows no fraternal or sororetal affiliation but is guided by the principles of Black Unity? More specifically Voting Unity, Candidates selection unity,