Reportedly, through various written and verbal communications, the Green County Commission had informed Sheriff Jonathan Benison that his additional employees, supported by bingo funds, would be laid-off unless the Sheriff provided the necessary payroll payments at the beginning of each quarter of 2020-2021, as well as reimburse the county the back pay due for the same employees.
Author: Carma Henry
Carma Henry
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Sergeant Harold Preston, a Houston police officer, was sadly shot and killed while responding to a domestic violence call at an apartment complex on the south side of the city. The 65-year old police officer was only two weeks away from his retirement.
Tracey Brown, a social studies teacher in Florida, is under investigation after being captured on video saying that she “has much right as anybody else to dislike Blacks” during an online class with her students.
On September 1, 2020, the City of Fort Lauderdale Commission, acting as the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Board of Commissioners approved a $640,000 Development Incentive Program Loan to Mount Hermon Housing, LTD. for the development of Mount Hermon Apartments. The CRA’s Development Incentive Program Loan is contingent upon the award of a 9% tax credit from the Florida Housing Finance Corporation.
“After refusing a Democratic nominee to the Supreme Court because an election was eight months away, they will confirm a Republican nominee before an election that is eight days away,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, who is a Democrat.
“There is a legacy of racism and inequality that lives still in our institutions, our laws, and in too many people’s hearts that makes it harder for Black people to succeed,” Biden wrote in the 1,047-word column published Oct. 19, 2020 on the NNPA Newswire Service. “These are facts in the United States of America in 2020, and we must all do more to move our nation closer to the ideals inlaid at our founding – that all women and men are created equal.”
At the age of 102, Vivian “Millie” Bailey, a World War II veteran from Maryland, has finally achieved her dream of skydiving, making her one of the oldest people in the world to do so.
*In 2001, he became the first Black American to be elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as the first African American to head D.C.’s archdiocese in May 2019.
Paul Lamar Hunter, author of No Love, No Charity: The Success of the 19th Child, is the 19th of 21 children. His book is an inspirational story about personal triumph and overcoming and beating all the odds. Since his birth, his life has been one obstacle after another. In fact, one person compared his trials to running a marathon on tedious terrain. Though adversity has changed the trajectory of his life, his touching story has been the source of inspiration for countless others all around the world.
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