The National Urban League says years of progress for Black Americans are being reversed, citing changes to diversity initiatives, employment, voting rights and civil rights enforcement in its newly released 2026 State of Black America report.
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Saturday, August 1st, 2026, the Sistrunk Scholarship Committee hosted “Stepping into your Future”, an event that honored outstanding students for their academic achievement, leadership, and commitment to excellence. The program awarded scholarships to several deserving recipients to help them continue their education and achieve their goals.
Investment will help South Florida’s only HBCU secure independent real estate expehise as it works to grow enrollment and turn its land development as a lasting source of institutional strength.
A U.S. Secret Service agent and two other South Florida men have been charged in connection with an alleged fraternity hazing ritual that left a University of Miami law student critically injured and another participant requiring skin grafts, authorities said.
In May 2025, Broward Circuit Court Judge David A. Haimes entered a final judgement officially quieting title back to the local lodge, successfully concluding a grueling multi-year legal battle against rogue lodge members, and private lender HIF IV who illegally recorded a fraudulent warranty deed in 2018. Local Elks members make no secret about how the national Grand Lodge remained silent regarding involvement in filing the March 2018 lawsuit against rouge lodge members and Eutsey’s Sator Investments, LLC. These displaced lodge members and golf friends of Kevin Eutsey illegally cut a deal for Eutsey’s entity to pay off the lodge’s unmanageable debt, with Eutsey getting the deed for the Elks property on an alleged joint venture agreement. Eutsey would turn property into a “state of the art” club with an area for Elks activities.
This week, the Queen City of Cincinnati once again becomes the gathering place for one of the world’s most influential African American organizations as thousands of members of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. convene for the 85th Grand Conclave, July 30th through August 3rd.
We never imagined that a dispute over insurance—not missed mortgage payments—would place our church on the brink of foreclosure.
U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost, state Sen. LaVon Bracy Davis and state Rep. Anna Eskamani say they are supporting Nixon as she faces off against former Army Lt. Col. Alex Vindman in the Aug. 18 Primary. The winner meets Republican U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody in her first test before voters after she was appointed last year.
Jolly makes clear that he sees the brutality of the relentless culture wars targeting Black Floridians. And he talks about it to all audiences. “The hatred has broken us. It’s more demoralizing than ever before, And I will end it,” Jolly says. Aquasia Johnson of Orlando is one of those voters who has noticed. “He’s different. He’s very different, and I appreciate his passion. I feel he’s very solid on the issues that matter to us.”
As one of the founding members of the Trailblazers of Broward County, Gloria Robinson helped build an organization dedicated to uncovering, preserving, and sharing the stories that shaped one of South Florida’s most historic African American communities. Founded in 2007 by the late Beauregard Cummings and the late Mary Black Rizor, Trailblazers has become one of Broward County’s most respected history-seeking, culture-keeping organizations, bringing to life the people, places, and events that helped define the northwest quadrant of Fort Lauderdale.