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Old Town Untapped Springs Forward Brothers of Others Rock the Stage and Extraordinary Quilting Art Exhibition Opens

    Join us at Old Town Untapped, our monthly street festival. April features the rocking Miami-based band Brothers of Others. Enjoy the opening reception for Modern Quilt, a vibrantly curated exhibition of non-traditional quilt making. On the first Friday of every month, “Old Town” becomes the epicenter for art, food, and music! Each event features live bands, a DJ, craft beer, food trucks, arts & crafts vendors, and gallery tours at Bailey Contemporary Arts Center (BaCA). Old Town Untapped is free and open to the public.  April 1, 2022, from 6-10 pm, with headlining musical act Brothers of Others. Learn more at www.pompanobeacharts.org […]

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TCU Women’s Basketball Honors FW Legend Opal Lee

     Each day Lee would travel two and a half miles each day in recognition of the two and a half years that Black Texans waited between when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, on Jan. 1, 1863, abolishing slavery, and the day that message arrived in Galveston, where Black people were still enslaved, on June 19, 1865. […]

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Val Demings for U.S. Senate meets with the Sistrunk Area Community

      At The Circuit in The Midtown Commerce Center on the morning of March 10, Sheryl Dickey hosted a warm and casual introduction of Senate Candidate Val Demings(D-FL). “This is one of many events that U.S. Congresswoman Val Demings will have throughout her campaign to get to know all of the Senatorial area she will represent,” said host Sheryl Dickey, President & CEO of Dickey Consulting. […]

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195 Years of the Black Press

     Since the first issue rolled off the press in 1971, the Westside Gazette newspaper has maintained the professional, insightful and reader sensitive reporting that has gained the trust and respect of South Florida’s African American community. […]

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Magnolia B. Jackson: BCU’s Oldest Living Alumnus Celebrates 104th Birthday

      In a nation plagued by rising gas prices, war, global warming, coronavirus, racism and inhumanity, more than 50 people in Gainesville, Florida, celebrated the life of an outstanding educator and principal Magnolia Bradley Jackson. At 104, Principal Jackson is the oldest living alumnus of Bethune Cookman University founded for Black students by Mary McCleod Bethune. Born the youngest of 11 siblings March 14, 1918 in rural Rochelle, Florida, Magnolia’s intellectual acumen sailed her through Old Lincoln High to Bethune Cookman where she earned a degree in elementary education.  […]

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Her Story: Rubin Stacy’s Messenger

     Because of this message, Stacy’s family members have a very different perspective on why Rubin Stacy was lynched. The message tells of Rubin’s frightful nights in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in Broward County. It tells of the events leading up to the three-day horror Rubin Stacy endured before he was lynched by an organized vigilante mob. Note that there is evidence that the mob was spearheaded by the county Deputy Bob Clark, brother of Sheriff Walter Clark. […]

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Eta Nu Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., along with several other male volunteers from various organizations, participated in Real Men Read!,

The event, which occurred on Friday, March 11, 2022, included Dr. Martin Luther King, Larkdale, North Side, Thurgood  Marshall, Park Ridge, and Village Elementaries. I specifically chose Park Ridge because of my niece Geneva Henry, a special education teacher and her daughter Neva’eh, a second grader there. Their heartfelt invitation initiated this unforgettable experience. […]

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History Fort Lauderdale Presents a FREE Community Screening of the New Documentary “She Had a Dream: Eula Johnson’s Fight to Desegregate Broward County” at African-American Research Library and Cultural Center on March 30 at 5:30 p.m.

    History Fort Lauderdale, celebrating 60 years as a proud steward of our community’s past by making our heritage accessible and engaging to residents and visitors, will present a community screening of the new documentary film, “She Had a Dream: Eula Johnson’s Fight to Desegregate Broward County.” The film was locally directed and edited by Janay Joseph, NSU intern and Tara Chadwick, History Fort Lauderdale’s curator of exhibitions. […]