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Fred Beneby proudly stands beside his special project at Seagrass Village in PORT ORANGE, FL

November 6, 2025

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Community Leaders Unite to Boost Voter Turnout in Broward

November 6, 2025

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Halfway to Chains: What’s Already Been Enforced Under Project 2025

November 5, 2025

Local News

Local News

The Shutdown Is Over: But So Is America’s Moral Compass

This wasn’t a compromise. It was capitulation. After forty long days, the longest shutdown in U.S. history, America’s working class, the elderly, the sick, and the poor watched as their future, and their literal lives were traded away by the very people who promised to protect them.

Fred Beneby proudly stands beside his special project at Seagrass Village in PORT ORANGE, FL

Community Leaders Unite to Boost Voter Turnout in Broward

BSO Partnership Strengthens Community Safety with $20,000 Grant Support

Broward Elks Lodge faces foreclosure due to attorney and Grand Lodge breach

National News

National News

Dr. Benjamin Chavis Celebrated as ‘Father of the Environmental Justice movement’

Dr. Benjamin Chavis, president/CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), was celebrated as the father of the environmental justice movement at the Mississippi Statewide Environmental Climate Justice Summit organized by Jesus People Against Pollution (JPAP) October 24-26, 2025, headquartered at Tougaloo College.

National News

The Government Shutdown Proves We Need Skilled Trades

By Carma HenryNovember 12, 2025

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Donate to the National Newspaper Publishers Association

By Carma HenryNovember 6, 2025

Politics

Africa’s Reckoning at the U N and the Silence That Can’t Be Bought

October 14, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s CDC Visit: An Insult Wrapped in Arrogance

August 25, 2025

Honoring the Life and Legacy of Malcolm Jamal Warner: A Renaissance Man of Our Time

July 23, 2025

Trump Taps Quack Influencer Casey Means for Surgeon General Part 1

May 15, 2025

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LIVE State Of The People Marathon

July 3, 2025

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Friends of AARLCC – Pillars of Giving Campaign

January 30, 2025

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We Ain’t Gonna be Erased!

October 12, 2023

Black History

Robert Smalls: From Enslavement to Heroism

September 26, 2023

National News

Families sue California, claiming state failed to educate poor and minority students amid pandemic

December 8, 2020

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President Obama Helps Floridians Make A Plan To Vote

October 13, 2020

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Two Minute Warning Series

September 17, 2020

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Just A Lil Bit • Full Episodes

September 17, 2020

Entertainment

Entertainment

Wesley Snipes gets released from prison

By Carma HenryApril 11, 2013

Snipes has been released from Federal Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania

Entertainment

UNIVERSAL PICTURES AND ILLUMINATION ENTERTAINMENT’S DESPICABLE ME 2 “DESPICABLIMP” TAKES FLIGHT ON MARCH 23

By DvonApril 10, 2013

On behalf of the Universal Pictures’ upcoming film DESPICABLE ME 2, opening on July…

Entertainment

Cannonball Jazz Series

By DvonApril 9, 2013

You are invited to attend: Cannonball Jazz Series Thursday, April 11, 2013 from 7:00…

Entertainment

You are invited to the ABOVE THE INFLUENCE (ATI) event to support Broward County Youth and what they are ABOVE!!!!

By DvonApril 9, 2013

“Above The Influence: Broward County” is a group of people, united to improve the statistics of…

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Understanding Type 2 Diabetes in Seniors: Why Awareness Matters

November 6, 2025

Prepare for open enrollment

October 30, 2025

Fewer Black Women Are Dying from Breast Cancer—Here’s Why

October 30, 2025

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Leja Williams interviewing Bonita Williams-McKenzie (Caregiver)

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Calling all Incoming and transfer students are you ready? Join the Rattlers in the big sendoff!!

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Golf Club that called the police on Black women for not ‘keeping the pace’ faces business backlash

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The westside gazette Presents exclusive interview The Mighty Dillard Panthers

Editorials

Editorials

From the Door of No Return to the Gate of Reflection: My First Steps Across Africa

October 30, 2025

Editorials

From Across the Waters

October 23, 2025

Editorials

When Our Campuses No Longer Feel Safe: A Cry for Common Sense and Sacred Space

October 16, 2025

Editorials

If the Tables Were Turned, What Would America Look Like?

October 9, 2025

Sports

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Target continues to challenge our spending power, so we must continue to take action • Full Target Boycott! ✊

April 28, 2025

1879 Florida Memorial University Founders’ Day Celebration

March 25, 2025

Spend your money where you’re respected

March 17, 2025

Clergy call for nationwide, 40-day boycott of Best Buy, Target, Walmart and other major retail chains

March 5, 2025

Religion

‘Test Your Bible Knowledge’

November 6, 2025

Remembering the Life and Legacy of former Miami-Dade Police Department First African American Police Director, Robert Parker

November 6, 2025

As SNAP Benefits Stall, Black Churches Step Up to Feed America

November 5, 2025

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We Stood in Awe of the Legendary Edward Villella

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2109 Mid Winter Conference

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2019 NNPA Morning Prayer Breakfast

International

Black Woman Dies From COVID-19 Two Weeks After a Man Coughed and Spit on Her

Ashes instead of soap: Inside Zimbabwe’s COVID-19 fight

Police target attacks against Zimbabwean women

Umpqua Bank rejects $2 million from Black owner seeking to pay off mortgage — but takes offer from white male buyer

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Brevo Theatre Presents: Black Nativity Dec 18 – 20

November 11, 2025

Judge Denies Emergency Motion in Florida Memorial University Leadership Dispute

September 11, 2025

Senator Back Revised Social Media Bill

February 21, 2024

Taste of Lauderdale Lakes – November 12th 2022 – 11AM – 6PM

October 27, 2022

Black History

Black History

Unyielding Conviction: John Brown’s Stand Against Slavery

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Enduring Power of a Musical Pioneer

Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Enduring Power of a Musical Pioneer

Unyielding Conviction: John Brown’s Stand Against Slavery

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Progressive National Baptist Convention leaders hail Harris, pan Trump, urge voting

Arts & Culture

Green Book offers a heartfelt look at racial inequality, tolerance and friendship.

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Politics

Africa’s Reckoning at the U N and the Silence That Can’t Be Bought

October 14, 2025

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s CDC Visit: An Insult Wrapped in Arrogance

August 25, 2025

Honoring the Life and Legacy of Malcolm Jamal Warner: A Renaissance Man of Our Time

July 23, 2025