On Sunday March 6th, 2022, Federal, State, and local elected leaders joined with “Foot Soldiers” of the Civil Rights Movement at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama to underscore a heightened commitment to restore and expand voting rights for people of color and marginalized communities in the United States. […]
On May 25, 2020, former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd. Floyd’s killing was captured on video by a teenage bystander, Darnella Frazier. What resulted was worldwide attention on police brutality, the general treatment of Black people in the U.S. and a “racial reckoning” that endured conversation and financial pledges of support toward equal rights. […]
The Senate on Monday unanimously passed legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime, in a historic first that comes after more than a century of failed efforts to pass such a measure. […]
Ukrainian officials rejected the Kremlin’s unilateral proposal for evacuation corridors for civilians as an unacceptable non-starter. Most of the routes lead to Russia or its staunch ally Belarus and would require people to travel through active areas of fighting. […]
“Mr. Cosby’s constitutional rights were a reprehensible bait by Kevin Steele, Judge Steven T. O’Neill, and their cohorts. This is truly a victory for Mr. Cosby. […]
Former Hialeah police office Jesus Menocal Jr. agreed to a plea deal that will send him to prison for up to three years on misdemeanor charges for pressuring three victims into sex acts while he was on duty. BY COURTESY: CBS4 […]
The League of Women Voters of Broward County will celebrate Women’s History Month with two library exhibits about the suffragists who worked for the passage of the 19th Amendment. […]
Disney Theatrical Productions, under the direction of Thomas Schumacher, and the Broward Center for the Performing Arts are pleased to announce casting for the Fort Lauderdale engagement of Disney’s Frozen. From the producer of The Lion King and Aladdin, Frozen, the Tony®-nominated Best Musical, will play an exclusive 2-week premiere engagement at The Au-Rene theater beginning Wednesday, March 9, 2022, with performances playing through Sunday, March 20, 2022. Opening night is set for Thursday, March 10, 2022 at 8 p.m. […]
SKYWARN Storm Spotters training class, normally conducted at the Broward Emergency Operations Center, will be held virtually again this year. The class is intended for those with an interest in public safety and communications, and who want to help during extreme weather events. […]
My venture into drugs started with one little compromise. My first exposure to drugs was in my freshman year of high school. I saw it destroys some of my closest friends at a very young age – they two were just freshman‘s. “In my junior year, I made a compromise to try marijuana and it led to a whole new life. King David didn’t know that on that day he would have an adult street affair that would lead to a child and later murder… And so many coverups, just like me when we compromise the truth that God has revealed to us, it takes on a whole new life. […]
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