This past week Black State Legislators from around the nation converged on Nashville Tennessee for the 47th annual Legislative Conference of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators.
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Airman Samuel Munroe, a native of Plantation, Florida, serves at Aviation Rescue Swimmer School. Munroe graduated from South Plantation High School in 2016.
United Way of Broward County’s MISSION UNITED distributed nearly 500 Thanksgiving meals to Broward County Veterans, Active Military, National Guard and Reservists on Monday, November 20, 2023, at United Way of Broward County’s Colker Center in Fort Lauderdale.
D’Monterrio Gibson, the former FedEx delivery driver who said two white men chased him down in a racist attack, filed his second lawsuit following the incident. Why the second one, you ask?
Republican lawmakers in Georgia intentionally diluted Black voting power, a federal judge ruled.
One of the ways Glades Lives Matter advocates is by educating. The students in the Ambassadorship Program experienced the Raising Cane Tour recently.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement fired a deputy chief of staff days after she sought whistleblower protection and complained about alleged retaliation against an attorney who tangled with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ aides over releasing public records.
Nunnie on the Sideline
November was a difficult month for so many as we lamented the passing of Kenneth “SeaDog” Ivory, who was loved and revered by an amazing family, close friends and myriad fraternity brothers of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
On September 3, 1967, Dawn Mercedes Smith was born in Tallahassee, Florida, to the late Sylvia Morris Johnson and the late Percy Johnson. Sylvia named her only daughter Dawn as that was the favorite part of her day. Dawn was later adopted by Harold Smith upon his marriage to Sylvia.