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The Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Iota Pi Lambda Chapter, provided eight high school graduates from the South Dade community with scholarships as part of the organization’s “Go to High School, Go to College” national initiative. Close to $8,000 in scholarships were awarded through the Iota Pi Lambda Education Foundation.
In the wake of the NAACP Florida Travel Advisory for the Black, LGBTQIA+ and undocumented communities, the South Dade Branch of the NAACP is saddened and angered to learn of the senseless death of Ajike ‘AJ’ Owens.
But the Florida Supreme Court issued two opinions last week that refused to halt the execution. One of the opinions upheld a ruling by a Bradford County circuit judge who concluded that Owen was “feigning or malingering psychopathology to avoid the death penalty.”
These books have been banned in several public schools and libraries across the U.S. amid a wave of book censorship and restrictions.
U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle’s ruling will affect a group of transgender children and parents who filed a lawsuit challenging rules adopted by state medical boards banning health-care providers from using gender-affirming care to treat youths.
In a passionate and emotional eulogy delivered at the funeral service of AJ Owens, Rev. Al Sharpton called for justice and accountability, demanding that the tragic incident that led to Owens’ death should not be buried or forgotten.
The study revealed significant disparities in the victims of homicides and the media attention they receive based on their race and gender.
A judge has put on hold key parts of a lawsuit filed by Florida against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, after the federal agency said it expects to make a decision by Oct. 31 on the state’s plan to import cheaper prescription drugs from Canada.
Authoritarian law-makers and legislatures have introduced close to 1,000 pieces of hateful legislation across the country. While many Americans are disgusted and outraged, the voices we’re hearing loudest and clearest are those of a vocal minority determined to roll back 70 years of progress. They deliberately are attacking and attempting to dismantle our democracy, stripping whole groups of people of their basic civil rights.