Month: January 2013

The community is facing a crisis. Too many young men, especially African American and other minority young men, face odds toward success often stacked against them

Broward County governmental offices will be closed on Monday, Jan. 21, in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr., national holiday. There are a few exceptions:

Thirty-seventh annual celebration service to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Submitted by Michael Robinson      New Mount Olive Baptist Church, 400 N.W. Ninth Ave, Fort…

Florida Memorial University’s accreditation has been reaffirmed—with no recommendations—was the perfect way to end 2012 and to begin the New Year

One thing is sure and that is while we don’t know how the tenure of new Sheriff Scott Israel will continue, the beginning was both auspicious and promising

Congress went down to the wire before crafting and passing legislation that prevented the American economy from another potential disaster in going over the so-called fiscal cliff.

Does our recession today mark the milestone of our great depression for unemployment in our past as for African America?

Death penalty and its execution do not seem to worry too much to the political leaders censored by this practice

“When pigs fly” is a figure of speech often used to describe something that seems impossible to achieve. Justice and Witness Ministries claimed this phrase for years as a way to encourage and challenge all of us to work for justice even if it seems impossible to realize at the moment.

Now we are experiencing somewhat of a threat to the choice of the people.