What better way to celebrate Childhood Cancer Awareness Month than ringing the bell at an end-of-chemo-party? The pediatric oncology team at Broward Health Medical Center cheered on Melynanie (Melanie) while she rang the bell to celebrate the end of her cancer treatment. The 13-year-old Fort Lauderdale resident was diagnosed with high-risk leukemia and developed diabetes
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Pompano Beach Arts is pleased to present a visual art exhibition at Bailey Contemporary Arts Center featuring original works by Kandy G Lopez entitled (in) visible: pair-a-dice. This project goes beyond the typical notion of the Caribbean as a paradise and explores colorism, economic disparity, and political trauma. This new body of work features stained glass portraits of people of
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Don’t sleep on voting. Our ancestors, the NAACP, and a few other progressive groups are encouraging Black people to vote in their fifteen-city “Stay Woke” tour this month. The tour started in Jacksonville on June 19, and runs north to Tallahassee, west to Tampa, south to Miami and back along the state’s east coast, ending
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You deserve a break. The hustle and the grind has put us in a state of perpetual stress. I know my girl Rihanna said it, “Just get ready fi work, work, work, work.” Collectively ya’ll, we need to learn how to chill! Even God rested one day. Aren’t you tired? Hustle culture is sucking the
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By Kristen Hernandez Villij News was on the scene of a shooting that occurred around 10:30 a.m. Thursday in an apartment building located at 300 SE 11th Avenue in Pompano Beach. Earlier that morning at around 7:30 a.m. neighbors heard an escalating argument between a man and woman that live on the third floor, which
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