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Closing schools for what should be the real question-how low will one go

There are dozens upon dozens of schools from elementary, middle, and high that don’t have enough students, yet sources are telling Ol Pete that the schools making the short list for closure are all in Black neighborhoods. Schools out west like Silver Shores Elementary that is seriously under enrolled hasn’t made the closure list.  And to add insult to injury, there has been nothing, to Pete’s knowledge, to engage the affected Black community around these school closures. Black folk are sleeping through the revolution and Broward district is grateful for the ignorant slumber. […]

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The D.R.I.P. Way Foundation, Inc.

    The D.R.I.P. Way Foundation, Inc., is the dream and passion of John Franklin III, a Sickle Cell trait carrier,  current wide receiver with the Memphis Showboats of the USFL, and a Superbowl LV champion who played with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He is a native Floridian, who graduated from South Plantation High School and desires to serve the community by giving back, increasing awareness, providing knowledge resources, and support for Sickle Cell Anemia. […]

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Hurricane Center Eyes Atlantic Storms

     The National Hurricane Center on Friday morning was watching four weather systems in the Atlantic Ocean, with one expected to bring rain to South Florida this weekend. A storm listed as Disturbance 4 was just north of Hispaniola and is expected to sweep across Florida as it moves toward the western Gulf of Mexico next week. […]

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“Segregation Ain’t Gonna Stop Us”-Pt 1

Dr. McNair was an academic prodigy and began studying calculus math at 9-years-old. This precocious 4th grader should have been learning his introductory multiplication tables. In 1959 the police were called to remove a young menace to the backwater town library of Lake City, SC. It was a tiny snapshot of how craven the Jim Crow era was for our society. The White librarian proved to be a heinous recreant and told a little boy he could not read a book! […]

Feature

Homelessness Benefits Broward

     The subject of this story sounds as asinine and ridiculous as our misguided, punitive governor’s pernicious assertion that slavery benefited Black people. As I travel through out Broward County performing mundane tasks, homelessness is the existential crisis impossible to ignore. On practically every major intersection in Broward, panhandling persists and homelessness is pervasive. I routinely in the past transported a friend to the tri-rail station just south of Broward Blvd., then used the access road to I-95 to return home. Each time under the overpass the proliferation of homeless encampments became more apparent. […]