Opinions

Gallows Toll For Whom

     Well, rather than deciding from gallows, the Washington, DC, jury on Tuesday, November 28, 2022, convicted Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs of seditious conspiracy for their involvement in the January 6, 2020, insurrection. Three others involved were hit with lesser charges. […]

Opinions

What Must Be Done with White Reconstruction

 Unlike one hundred years ago, we know what’s coming and what we can do to stop such actions. We know that from the increase in hate crimes and racism, much of it fueled by the actions of our former President, that racism on the part of conservative and right-wing whites is fear of the “browning” of America. […]

Local News

Black Exodur to California

    Black slaves were brought to California as chattell/property, like a horse or plow. The gold rush of the 1840s lured adventurous slave owners to California. A necessary tool is someone to dig up the gold. This migration began about 15 years before the Civil war. During this time Blacks could be found working in the gold fields and domestic spaces of California.  […]

Sports

The Girl’s Cross Country Team From Dillard High continues its rise to the top

The casual high school sports fan has probably never even given cross country a passing thought-  understandable but nevertheless disappointing. While hundreds of students and parents eagerly attend Dillard football games, the same attention and enthusiasm falls woefully short when speaking of cross country, a sport that demands courage, endurance, sacrifice and commitment sans the physicality, immediate excitement and anticipation inherent in football or other traditional sports . I continue to draw the comparison because both are fall sports held at similar times. However, on many high school and college campuses, the sport’s popularity has skyrocketed. For example, who knows or has ever heard of Katelin Tuohy or Charles Hicks? Allow me the privilege of sparing you the aggravation. Katelin led the Atlantic Coast Conference North Carolina State University Wolfpack to the 2022 NCAA Division I XC championship,  winning her first individual title in 19:27  while garnering the team’s second consecutive title. Stanford’s Charles Hicks won the men’s individual XC title, setting a course record at Oklahoma State University with a time of 28:43, one second ahead of pre-race favorite Nic Young of Northern Arizona, NCAA men’s XC ‘22 champs. […]

Local News

FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENTAL RESEARCH SCHOOL ESTABLISHES SPORTS HALL OF FAME TO HONOR PAST STUDENT-ATHLETES

In conjunction with the administration of Florida A&M University Developmental Research School (FAMU DRS), the FAMU DRS-High Sports Hall of Fame (HOF) is being established to honor and celebrate the past accomplishments of former student-athletes who graduated from FAMU DRS, also known as FAMU High School. The HOF Board of Directors has been hard at work creating this everlasting homage to those who have left an indelible mark on athletics at all levels, including while attending FAMU DRS-High, attending college and/or as a professional athlete. Additionally, the HOF will honor non-athletes who have been committed supporters of the athletic program at FAMU DRS-High in various way. […]