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Nicholas Emmanuel Young, now 19.

Abandoned baby left to die on fire ant mound now a sophomore at Florida A&M University

It was a warm August morning in 1989 and Robert Lee Hearn, a supervisor with a major construction company, had just wrapped up a meeting with locators from the local utility company. The utility workers were advising him of the location of buried cables so as to not interfere with the underground telephone lines his company planned to install near the rural community of Indiantown in western Martin County, Fla. ...Click here for the full article

Get out and vote

It’s one thing to register to vote, and another to essentially go out and vote for the candidate of your choice.

So many African Americans are registered to vote, but, according to Dr. Dorsey Miller, president of South Florida Operation Big Vote, Inc. (SFOBV), there are approximately 200,000 registered African American voters here in Broward County – but only 12 ... Click here for the full article

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NATIONAL NEWS HEALTH
Morial Black America ‘Gets Pneumonia’ in Cold Economic Climate
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - As the Black unemployment rate leaped another eight percentage points last month – from 10.6 percent to 11.4 percent, the ...Click here for the full article
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Polls Rocketing for Obama, But, Could Racism Undermine Nov. 4?
CBC Members' Debate Watch to Headline 2008 Annual Legislative Conference
‘State of the Black World’ Conference Aims to Set Post-Election Black Agenda
Florida’s WIC Program provides nutrition services for women, infants and children Florida’s WIC Program provides nutrition services for women, infants and children

TALLAHASSEE, FL -- The Florida Department of Health (DOH) recognizes the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and ...Click here for the full article

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The Florida Department of Health and Broward County Health Department recognizes October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month
BRING US YOUR TIRED, WEARY
Celebrate “Wear Pink Day” and Breast Cancer Awareness Month at the SunTrust Sunday Jazz Brunch this October
RELIGION LOCAL SPORTS
Leah Daughtry, chief of staff at the Democratic National Committee, is one of the dozen most effective people shaping the Democratic Party''''s approach to religion.  Pentecostals leading Democrats’ faith outreach

As the Democratic National Convention unfolds in Denver, the prominence of African American Pentecostals within the Democratic Party is gaining a ...Click here for the full article

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Now Here is a Thought
Cornerstone Laying Ceremony
God help our people!!!
Pictured l-r: James Freeman, Bernard Freeman, Richard Pringle, Rodney Kay, Thomas Jones, Jr., Alphonso Freeman. KEEPING UP A TRADITION

Despite the downpours, as the first day of Dove session opened in Florida, members of the ‘If da Fish ...Click here for the full article

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Bulls and Tornadoes renew football on national stage
Nike donates $5,000 in products to the optimist youth football
McKinley Financial Services, Inc., one of the sponsors of Vista Game of the Week

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