Recap and analysis of the week in state government and politics By Ryan Dailey The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Measures signed this week by Gov. Ron DeSantis will shutter Florida’s business-recruitment agency, […]
The Critics’ Awards Program, or Cappies for short, celebrated the best of high school theater and theater criticism at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, where the program was launched more than two decades ago. […]
Carrying out a new law, a joint panel of the Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine is slated next week to discuss rules about treatments for transgender minors and adults. The Joint Rules and Legislative Committee of the medical boards will meet Thursday in Tampa. The Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov. Ron DeSantis this month approved a law (SB 254) that bars doctors from providing treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy to transgender minors. […]
A high school graduate from Oklahoma is suing the district where she previously attended school because she claims administrators there forbade her from wearing a holy eagle plume on her graduation hat. The case, which was filed last week in Tulsa County by attorneys for the student, Lena’ Black, against Broken Arrow Public Schools and two district workers, centers on an encounter that happened last year just before graduation. […]
Our Story: AIDS in the Black Community is a theatrical production composed of vignettes featuring cast of characters all keeping a secret; the fact that they are living with HIV. Audiences learn the back-story of the characters and the impact; not only on their lives, but those they love. To Millions of people all over the world live this story every day, and have been impacted by HIV in some way since the AIDS outbreak in 1981. Thirty years, it remains one of the most challenging and polarizing topics, specifically in the African American community. Our Story serves to address the topic of AIDS to begin the healing of Black communities and come together sharing information and understanding. […]
Elmore “Buddy” Bolling, at the young age of 39, was killed with a barrage of shotgun blasts and pistol shots from White assailants. The Montgomery Advertiser described how brazen it was. “The shooters didn’t even cover their faces; they didn’t need to. Everyone knew who had done it and why. ‘He was too successful to be a Negro,’ someone who knew Bolling told a newspaper at the time.” […]
My first year at The Illustrious Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University(FAMU) was everything I could’ve ever imagined and more! I met so many wonderful people and built so many important relationships that I’m so very grateful for. […]
My wife Sonia and I were aware that our neighborhood restaurant, Betty’s Soul Food, after a complete and thorough renovation, had reopened for business, but until this past today, we hadn’t patronized. I suppose that, like us, many persons were just beginning to feel comfortable enough to return to some degree of normalcy after the Covid pandemic to venture in the public arena. […]
When they show you who they are the first time believe them […]
Founded in 2012, the South Florida Book Festival (SFBF) has made steady strides and is now one of the fastest-growing events of its kind across the southeast region. Each year it presents celebrity authors and respected thought-leaders. Professor Eddie Glaude Jr, comedian Rickey Smiley, director Eric Dean Seaton, and writer/producer of Boondocks Rodney Barnes were some of the featured authors of past festivals. […]
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