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TCU Women’s Basketball Honors FW Legend Opal Lee

     Each day Lee would travel two and a half miles each day in recognition of the two and a half years that Black Texans waited between when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, on Jan. 1, 1863, abolishing slavery, and the day that message arrived in Galveston, where Black people were still enslaved, on June 19, 1865. […]

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Val Demings for U.S. Senate meets with the Sistrunk Area Community

      At The Circuit in The Midtown Commerce Center on the morning of March 10, Sheryl Dickey hosted a warm and casual introduction of Senate Candidate Val Demings(D-FL). “This is one of many events that U.S. Congresswoman Val Demings will have throughout her campaign to get to know all of the Senatorial area she will represent,” said host Sheryl Dickey, President & CEO of Dickey Consulting. […]

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195 Years of the Black Press

     Since the first issue rolled off the press in 1971, the Westside Gazette newspaper has maintained the professional, insightful and reader sensitive reporting that has gained the trust and respect of South Florida’s African American community. […]

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Magnolia B. Jackson: BCU’s Oldest Living Alumnus Celebrates 104th Birthday

      In a nation plagued by rising gas prices, war, global warming, coronavirus, racism and inhumanity, more than 50 people in Gainesville, Florida, celebrated the life of an outstanding educator and principal Magnolia Bradley Jackson. At 104, Principal Jackson is the oldest living alumnus of Bethune Cookman University founded for Black students by Mary McCleod Bethune. Born the youngest of 11 siblings March 14, 1918 in rural Rochelle, Florida, Magnolia’s intellectual acumen sailed her through Old Lincoln High to Bethune Cookman where she earned a degree in elementary education.  […]