Broward County Public Schools Superintendent Robert W. Runcie has invited Floridaâs 66 other school districts to virtually join Broward County Public Schools in the one-year commemoration of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School tragedy. At 10:17 a.m. on February 14, 2019, schools across Florida will join all Broward County Public Schools in observing a moment of silence to honor the 17 students and staff whose lives were lost, and recognize the 17 others injured one year ago. The tribute is scheduled in the morning, when most students will be in class, at 17 minutes after the hour.
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âAs I entered my 30s, still navigating what achieving the dream would mean, I wondered what other Black millennials were feeling. I wanted to figure out what my generation of Black Americans thought about the promise of the American dream and how we can attain it,â Allen said.
2019 marks one hundred years since one of Americaâs deadliest massacres that claimed over two hundred lives of Black men, women, and children. In 1919, over a hundred sharecroppers and local farmers met with the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America at a local church in a small rural community to discuss how to obtain fairer settlements from landowners. The Black farmers were tired of being cheated out of their crops – this made the white landowners upset, the birth to the bloody slaughter began.
 After patiently waiting in the wings as President Donald Trump used 90 minutes to deliver what was supposed to be a 45-minute State of the Union Address, Abrams provided a scathing Democratic rebuttal to the presidentâs highly-scripted speech to Congress on Tuesday, Feb. 5.
From serving as an autism coach and teaching biology and global perspectives â to teaching the Japanese language and culture, five outstanding teachers are finalists for the Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) Teacher of the Year.
A report released Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that the economy took an $11 billion hit, including $3 billion thatâs gone forever, in the 35 days that parts of the federal government went unfunded.
    âEvery child should be able to have fun in a public pool without having to worry about facing prejudice.â
Former Tallahassee Mayor and Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Andrew Gillum didnât break the kind of news that many publishers, editors and journalists may have wanted at the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) annual Midwinter Training Conference in Orlando, but the HBCU graduate did provide the Black Press of America some newsworthy tidbits about what heâs doing now and what the future might hold.
      âThe future of our country depends on you and millions of others lifting our voices to fight for our American values,â said Harris, the first African-American woman, and the third woman overall, to announce her candidacy for the 2020 election.