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The Black Press has sustained itself, keeping the mission alive even when faced with a variety of weapons formed against it. Early Black media professionals faced intimidation, sabotage and even death for the words and images they printed. The AFRO, for example, was founded August 13,1892 just months after The Free Speech and Headlight, a publication co-owned by teacher and activist Ida B. Wells, was burned to the ground on May 27, 1892.

Elijah Winslett, a trumpeter from Huntsville, Alabama, won the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Seventh District Talent Hunt competition, grabbing a First-Place trophy and a $1,800 scholarship award. The event was part of the 89th Annual Seventh District Meeting held on March 27 in Cobb County.

     A proposal sponsored by Tom Leek, a Republican from Ormond Beach, has now passed the Senate in back-to-back legislative sessions. But the House version, filed by Kiyan Michael, a Jacksonville Republican, did not receive final approval in either year, effectively stalling the effort.

NNPA NEWSWIRE — Frederick Douglass understood something fundamental: identity is not granted by paperwork. It is asserted through presence, voice and participation. He claimed authorship over his own life in a nation structured to deny it. Today, we are debating whether documentation should determine access to democracy.

       Research shows that Black students are more likely to academically succeed when they work with a Black school counselor. But, there is a severe shortage of these professionals due to educators feeling racially isolated and unsupported.

       In March of 1827, two courageous Black men—Samuel Cornish and John B. Russwurm—published the first edition of Freedom’s Journal in New York City. With that bold act, they established what we now know as the Black Press of America.

By Liv Caputo (Source  Florida Phoenix) Schools tied to designated terrorist organizations must lose their state-sponsored tuition vouchers and college students supporting these groups must be…

       Bryant, who had urged churches and supporters to participate in what was called the “Target Fast,” recently admitted that announcing the end of that phase of the protest created confusion and frustration among many supporters who believed the broader boycott itself had been called off.

       “I kind of felt violated,” she recalls, describing how two male correctional officers searched her and unzipped her hoodie despite her objections. Angry and intoxicated, she flooded a toilet in her pod after being denied a phone call. “It was like an out of body situation,” she says. “I was so mad they wouldn’t let me make a phone call. I could’ve bonded out that night.”

       “Has the Third World War already begun, or is the world still not entering it, are we balancing?” Medvedev said. “Formally, no, but if Trump continues his insane course of criminal regime change, it will undoubtedly begin. And any event could trigger it. Any event. This is a war by the US and its allies to maintain global dominance. The pigs don’t want to give up their trough.”