Congratulations to Mack “Bear” Harper as the Grand Prize winner of the 2024 Honda CR-V LX. On Thursday, December 14th, Mack “Bear” Harper was presented his…
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The recently formed Florida Museum of Black History Task Force is now calling on the public to weigh in on what type of programming content should be part of the institution when it’s ultimately created in the coming years.
No one is revealing the name that Super Pete used to describe Black Board member, Torey Alston, but Pete understands that it is a word used during slavery that was swirled from massah’s mouth with the intent of dehumanizing a grown Black man in a similar way as the n-word. It’s a little word, only three letters, but it leaves a punch to the gut of Black men that is emasculating.
Former Georgia election workers filed another lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani, seeking a permanent injunction to prevent him from making false statements about them. Accusing Giuliani of defamation, they aim to halt his spread of misinformation regarding their involvement in the 2020 election.
After plummeting early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of inmates in Florida prisons is expected to continue steadily increasing in the coming years. A new report from the Legislature’s Office of Economic & Demographic Research estimated that the prison system will have 88,240 inmates on June 30, the end of the state’s 2023-2024 fiscal year. That number will increase annually and reach an estimated 94,059 inmates at the end of the 2028-2029 fiscal year.
Redemption Song
I hope this letter finds you well and filled with the same pride and joy that we have experienced throughout this incredible football season. On behalf of FAMU Athletics, I extend my heartfelt gratitude for your unwavering support that played a pivotal role in making this year truly historic for FAMU Football.
Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of Labor and other defendants Friday filed court documents disputing Florida’s arguments that federal officials were improperly threatening to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars for local transit programs in the state.
The legendary Huey Newton, Angela Davis, Stokeley Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seele, and H. Rap Brown are some of the names we remember from the Black Panther Party. Sadly it was the violent acts adjacent to the Panthers that we learned in school. The Panthers had many more layers of peaceful participation that were rarely exposed. In 1966 Bobby Seele and Huey Newton, at a small White college in Oakland, made the schematic for the Panthers.
The Florida A&M University Board of Trustees (BOT) approved the naming of the Julian “Cannonball” and Nat Adderley Music Institute in honor of the two alumni musical giants.