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MoBBallet Inspires More ‘Dark Stars of Ballet’

     Enter Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet (MoBBallet), an organization seeking to end racism in ballet companies and curriculums and celebrate the vast contributions made to the art form by Black and brown artists. Its 2022 MoBBallet Symposium M.I.A. (Motivation, Innovation, Activation) recently brought students and renowned Black dancers from around the globe together to create a safe space where they not only learned about dance and dance history – they learned about their own history. […]

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Sports

Quarter Phi Back Awards, aka “QFB”

     The MENT.O.R.S. Foundation established an organization and awards event to honor the legacies of past and future Black quarterbacks who played at the interscholastic, collegiate, and professional levels. The organization will be designated with the name Quarter Phi Back, aka QPhiB, Awards. It will take on a presence like that of a fraternal organization. […]

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Quarterback Phi Back Awards Releases Inaugural High School Quarterbacks Watch List

     The Quarter Phi Back Awards created by The MENT.O.R.S. Foundation, Inc. (Jacksonville, FL) released its inaugural “watch list” of quarterbacks for the 2022 season. The organization will monitor and track the performances of quarterbacks in four different levels to determine which player will be nominated for the Annual BIP Memorial Trophy. Originally set to recognize the most outstanding quarterback from a HBCU, it will now include the top Black quarterback in high school to receive the award at the interscholastic levels throughout the United States. […]

Editorials

Freedom  ain’t free and neither is Safety in BCPS

   Reorganizing a company as large as BCPS can have its challenges, but Super Cartwright just makes it look so grossly unfair. I was disappointed, but not at all surprised to learn that a correction had to be made to the Spanish version of the Referendum. Ballots have been printed and early voting has begun, yet someone at Broward Schools (of course, not Cartwright as she has a history of pointing the finger of blame to someone else) failed to ensure the language was correct on the ballot; therefore, a correction has been created. But, how will voters be informed? […]