    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 massahâs mouth with the intent of dehumanizing a grown Black man in a similar way as the n-word. Itâs a little word, only three letters, but it leaves a punch to the gut of Black men that is emasculating.
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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 Legislatureâs Office of Economic & Demographic Research estimated that the prison system will have 88,240 inmates on June 30, the end of the stateâs 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 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.