BOSTIC Funeral services for the late Mother Mary Ann Bostic – 91 were held Jan. 31 at Mount Bethel Ministries with Bishop C.E. Glover officiating. Interment: Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens (Central).
Celebrate America’s Independence Day at the City of Fort Lauderdale’s 4th of July Spectacular! Fort Lauderdale was recently named in USA Today’s “10 Best: Fourth of July Fireworks Around the USA.” The Independence Day Celebration will […]
Awadagin Pratt ~ J.S. Bach – Prelude and Fugue in Ab Major BWV 886 In 1992, Awadagin Pratt became the first African-American classical instrumentalist to win first prize in the Naumburg International Piano Competition. This […]
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) _ A team of Bethune-Cookman University students was one of only 10 presenters recently during President’s Obama’s “National Week of Making” event at the White House. B-CU participated in the weeklong event […]
DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) _ Dickinson State University is publishing online a collection of images that includes letters from President Theodore Roosevelt to cartoonist John McCutcheon and from Edith Roosevelt to writer Octave Thanet. The letters […]
In honor of its 31st annual Business Diversity Conference, The Airport Minority Advisory Council (AMAC) landed in the Greater Fort Lauderdale area […]
Sunday’s 15th annual BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in downtown L.A. celebrated black — well, mostly black or “Black-ish” — stars from music, television, radio, film and sports. Tracee Ellis Ross and Anthony Anderson did a fine […]
Miami police will start enforcing a juvenile curfew Monday, making it illegal for minors to gather in public areas for several hours each night. The curfew will be in effect from 11 p.m. through 6 […]
They say if you want something done, get a (black) woman to do it. Just after dawn this morning, activist and North Carolina educator Bree Newsome climbed a 30-foot flag pole and snatched the Confederate flag […]
Ross was taken into custody Wednesday by a U.S. Marshals Service fugitive task force and sheriff’s deputies at the mansion in Fayette County, south of Atlanta. Ross, 39 — whose real name is William Roberts […]
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