ENROLL YOUR CHILD TODAY! The Head Start and Early Head Start Programs are federally funded programs that offer free, comprehensive services to low-income children and their families. Head Start serves preschool children, while the Early Head Start serves pregnant women, infants and toddlers.  The mission is to promote school preparation by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children through e ...

BY JESSE JACKSON March 18, 2013  Morehouse College, one of the most distinguished historically black colleges — with graduates like Dr. Martin Luther King, former Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson, film director Spike Lee and others — literally shut down for spring break this week. As its 2,000 students took their break, every member of the faculty and staff was furloughed without pay as the college struggles t ...

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Bobby Smith (pictured), co-founder and, for the most part, the lead singer of the iconic R&B group, The Spinners, has passed away at age 76, reports Soul Tracks. Smith passed away from complications of influenza and pneumonia; it was also reported that he had been suffering from lung cancer. Smith was a Detroit native and helped to form the famed group in 1960 at Ferndale High School, just north of Detr ...

RULE WOMEN As I write, Chaka Khan’s empowering “I’m Every Woman” loops in my head – like a soundtrack. (By the way, have you seen her lately? All slim, trim and more fabulous than ever).  It’s Women’s History Month and the lyrics to that iconic anthem should be resonating with all women, and those who love us, as we celebrate ourselves and the countless contributions we make everyday – both large and small ...

Back by popular demand, I want to share with you that Centric TV will be airing UNCF An Evening of Stars this Sunday, March 17th at 8pmET in an Encore Performance!  Please spread the word . .. tell your communities, colleagues friends, and families to tune-in, watch and make a difference in a student's life.     The program is one of the best yet, combining music-industry headliners like Chaka Khan, Yo ...

Clean Up Project Saturday, April 6th, 2013 Promptly at 8:30AM   Wanted:Volunteers    Wanted:Volunteers    Wanted:Volunteers Please join the  Kiwanis Club of Lauderdale Lakes, the Parents, the Alumni and Friends, the Board of Directors and the Cradle Nursery Staff in a general school clean-up! Clean up includes pick up of trash around site; washing of outdoor and indoor toys, cleaning of playground area tabl ...

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By DAVID ROYSE THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, March 13, 2013…. Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll has resigned the post amid a gambling investigation into a non-profit for which she once did consulting work, an official with the governor's office said Wednesday. Carroll, the first African-American woman to hold the post of lieutenant governor, represented a suburban Jacksonville district in th ...

THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, March 12, 2013......The Internet Cafés that have popped up around the state, which some say are essentially strip mall gaming parlors, appear about to be finished as an industry in Florida. The president of the Senate and the speaker of the House both said Wednesday that the cafes should be shut down, and a bill doing that is likely to be heard on the House floor as soon as next we ...