The Hallandale Beach Community Civic and Cultural Association, Inc. (HBCCCA) proudly presents the Angelean C. Glass Scholarship Breakfast, themed “Bridging the Generational Gap with Diversity.” The event will take place on Saturday, February 22, 2025, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 Noon at the Hallandale Beach Cultural Center (410 SE 3rd Street, Hallandale Beach, FL). Tickets are available for $50.
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State Sen. Geraldine Thompson, a longtime Central Florida lawmaker, educator and civil rights champion, died at her Windermere home after complications from knee replacement surgery, her family announced late Thursday, Feb. 13.
Every year as fall approaches we are either intentionally or subconsciously reminded of the harvest. From being bombarded with pumpkin spice flavored coffees, cookies, and cakes to fall festivals and pumpkin patches or even jack-o-lantern decorations there is no argument that the pumpkin is hailed as the fruit of the season! And I know what you’re thinking… “FRUIT???” Yes, you read that right. Pumpkin is a FRUIT! Many people believe that it is a vegetable; however, all members of the squash family are fruit. Vegetables are the edible portion of plants such as leaves, stems, roots, bulbs, flowers, and tubers. Because pumpkins are a product of the seed-bearing structure of a flowering plant; they are classified by botanists as fruit. Considering the popularity of the pumpkin during this time it is hard to separate the thought of it from cornucopias, Pilgrims, Native Americans & “The First Harvest”. The pumpkin’s identity and connection to a particular person and time of year vehemently remind me of another fruit that hosts an identity that unfortunately boasts a much more negative connotation, the watermelon.
“Publix Charities is proud to support the YMCA of South Florida as it strives to build healthy, confident and secure children, families and communities,” Publix Super Markets Charities Executive Director Kelly Williams-Puccio said. “The L.A. Lee YMCA/Mizell Community Center is a shining example of Publix Charities’ and the Y’s commitment to our communities.”
Williams’ journey from Texarkana, Texas to Motown and global superstardom, is chronicled in his acclaimed autobiography, “Temptations,” written with The New York Times best-selling author Patricia Romanowski, as well as “The Temptations,” an Emmy Award-Winning television mini-series.
“The one being carried does not realize how far away the town is.”
Sheriff Israel became the first Sheriff in the 98 years of the Bro-ward Sheriff’s Office to choose a Black man to hold the office of Chaplain for the Sheriff’s Office and Pastor Knowles was the Black man chosen.
South Florida’s only historically Black university recently celebrated 134 years since its founding in 1879