Fast forward fifteen years. Commissioner Beasley-Pittman was sworn in on December 6th., 2022 as the first ever elected Black female commissioner for the city of Fort Lauderdale (District 3). (Commissioner Magdalene Lewis was appointed in 2008.) […]
By the end of the four-day event, publishers, partners, sponsors, members, guests, and anyone else who visited the San Juan Marriott Beach Resort and Stellaris Casino gained a better appreciation of the power of the Black Press of America. […]
But, in the opinion of Lawrence Davis, a master mechanic who was diagnosed with prostate cancer nine years ago, an HBCU actually provided for him a service that was equal to or even greater than any one of these benefits. Davis credits Hampton University for literally saving his life after the Veteran’s Administration declined to pay forchosen cancer treatment – Proton Beam at Hampton University. […]
Digital workshops, collaborations and discussions about new ways to do business were all part the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s (NNPA) Mid-Winter Conference in San Juan, PR, last week. […]
The actions of Demetrius Haley, Tadarrius Bean, Emmitt Martin III, Desmond Mills, Jr., and Justin Smith have left many convinced that policing in America cannot be reformed. […]
Now, several federal agencies announced they would collaborate to compile data on discriminatory housing practices. […]
At the beginning of Black History Month, with the controversy being stoked by Governor DeSantis who is purportedly striving to “ban Black history,” I feel privileged to take you and the governor on a tour through the National Park System where the evidence of Black contributions to the development, sustenance and defense of the United States is enshrined on the land. There is no possibility of Black history being erased in Florida or anywhere else in America. […]
Cartwright OUSTED In a 9 to 0 vote the Broward County School Board agreed that Vickie Cartwright’s tenure as a superintendent of Broward County Schools has come to an end.
The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of Black people and the destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six Black people and two white people were killed, but eyewitness accounts suggested a higher death toll of 27 to 150. The town of Rosewood was destroyed in what contemporary news reports characterized as a race riot. Florida had an especially high number of lynchings of Black men in the years before the massacre,[2] including a well-publicized incident in December 1922.[citation needed] […]
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