“The U.S. Army’s 369th Infantry Regiment, popularly known as the ‘Harlem Hellfighters,’ was the best known African American unit of World War I.” In an interview with N.P.R. Max Brooks, the author of The Harlem Hellfighters said, “The French called them the ‘Men of Bronze’ out of respect, and the Germans called them the ‘Harlem Hellfighters’ out of fear,…’”
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Mrs. Jewel Lewis, a community icon and pioneer in Broward County and most assuredly the Franklin Park Community, passed peacefully surrounded by her loving family.
After 45 years of preaching the gospel. Bishop Clarence Glover steps down from the pulpit.
Ella Baker, “The Mother of Civil Rights” earned her bonafides by the influence she had on shaping the Civil Rights Movement. Hers was not a charismatic flame like Dr. King’s, but nearly as instrumental! From teaching Rosa Parks how to protest, to being one of the female voices of the SCLC, she quietly had her fingerprints all over the Civil Rights Movement.
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…
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.