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 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 Floridaâs 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 âCannonballâ and Nat Adderley Music Institute in honor of the two alumni musical giants.
Besides the Divine Gift and the opportunity to celebrate with loved ones, this Christmas I bring you the greatest gift we can give ourselves now – peace. I found it in our National Park System and it has stayed with me for almost 30 years. Today Iâm placing our âCrown Jewelsâ under your tree so you can unwrap them at your leisure and a world of experience you never dreamed possible.
Georgia and Alabama have reached a settlement aimed at ending a long-running water war, but environmental groups plan to continue a legal fight because of concerns about Northwest Floridaâs Apalachicola River.
A $7 billion program to advance a series of transportation projects hit a funding gap as it enters its second year and will require more money than initially planned from the stateâs general-revenue fund.
    The Florida presidential primary started out a half-century ago partly as a publicity gimmick, when Democrats decided putting up a slate of underdogs was better than nothing.
The Broward College Foundation appointed BrightStar Credit Union President and CEO Biana Murnane; Gold Coast Angel Investors (GCAI) Managing Partner Bo Megginson; The Boeing Company Senior Manager Sasha Lightbourne; and Truist Bank Senior Vice President and International Wealth Advisor Yolanda Perez to its Board of Directors, in addition to reappointments and a new slate of executive Board Members.