National News

Keeping It Real: Corey Jackson Makes History

     It has been 44 years since Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man elected to public office in California. Milk was sworn in as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on January 6, 1978. With his victory, Milk became a forerunner in the push to elect and ensure more members of the LGBTQ+ community take positions of power at all levels of leadership. […]

Sports

Rattlers Return to Roots!

      Florida A&M and Bethune Cookman are two teams headed in opposite directions, even their records are exact opposite. FAMU sporting an 8-2 record and BCU sitting at 2-8. While BCU seemed to have the Rattlers number in recent years, the Rattlers have returned to their roots and seem to have turned the tables on the Wildcats winning the game last year 46-21 after the Wildcats reeled off nine consecutive wins. […]

Sports

NCAA Selection Committee Punishes FAMU for undisclosed Reason in Snub

     Selection Sunday turned into a solemn Sunday on the campus of Florida A&M.  Less than 24 hours after the Rattlers defeated the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats 41-20 in the 2022 Florida Blue Florida Classic, there was a late hit…and it came from the NCAA FCS Selection Committee.  Florida A&M, by most accounts, was expected to make the 24-team field of the FCS playoffs for the second consecutive year, but instead it was snubbed from the field leaving a cloud of wonder, confusion, and disappointment. […]

Sports

Carter Bonas, Spectrum Golf

     Carter Bonas, who is autistic, named his apparel Spectrum Golf, www.CartersSpectrumGolf.com because he ranks high on the Autism Spectrum Scale. He decided to showcase his apparel at the PGA Show 2022, which is one of the largest golf merchandising shows in the nation. That set off a tsunami of media coverage. His first interview was LIVE with the GOLF CHANNEL. That led to interviews with the PGA, PGA Magazine, Golf Digest, Golflife.TV and many more. https://www.cartersspectrumgolf.com/book-carter—press.html#/ […]

Health

Six Recent Changes to Health Insurance

     More than 14.5 million people in the United States get their health insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace (sometimes called Obamacare), and more than 2.7 million of them live here in Florida. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) that created the Marketplace was passed more than 10 years ago, but there have been several recent changes that may surprise you. […]