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FAMU Rebounds – Academic Achievements, Patents and Fundraising Soars

December 16, 2014 Staff 0

Tallahassee—The Florida A&M University Board of Trustees welcomed the good news. President Elmira Mangum revealed a dramatic change in academic growth, recruitment and fundraising. “FAMU must be “best in class” and that requires outside financial […]

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Health Department Ivestigating TB at Raines High School

December 16, 2014 Staff 0

The Florida Department of Health (DOH-Duval) is currently involved in the contact investigation related to a case of Tuberculosis (TB). The investigation involves an active case at William M. Raines High School; school officials, as […]

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Breathing Life Into a Movement

December 16, 2014 Staff 0

By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist “I can’t breathe,” gasped Eric Garner, again and again and again.  “I can’t breathe,” he said, as several police officers were on top of him, choking him, pushing his head […]

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Janay Should be Celebrated for Staying with Ray Rice

December 16, 2014 Staff 0

By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist Feminists claim that women should take more control of their lives, arguing that women are capable of making decisions about their lives and what is in their best interest without […]

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Police Shooting Victims Lives ‘Worth’ Less than a Ham Sandwich

December 16, 2014 Staff 0

By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist In Tom Wolfe’s best-selling The Bonfire of the Vanities, New York State Chief Judge Sol Wachtler famously said “a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich, if that’s what […]

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No Indictments in Brown and Garner Murders Cause Mass Protests Around the Country

December 16, 2014 Staff 0

What is the value of a black man’s life in America? That’s the question being asked all over social media after a grand jury in Ferguson, MO. decided not to charge the police officer that […]

Sports

Rice wins appeal, ‘suspension vacated’

November 28, 2014 Staff 0

by Barry Wilner NEW YORK (AP) – Ray Rice has won the appeal of his indefinite suspension by the NFL, the players’ union said Friday. NFL Players Association spokesman George Atallah told The Associated Press […]

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Alpha Phi Alpha Crowns Miss Black & Gold

November 26, 2014 Staff 0

Taylor Baines, a junior at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, was crowned Miss Black and Gold 2014 during the pageant sponsored by the Jacksonville Graduate Chapter, Upsilon Lambda, of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.. […]

Entertainment

Broadway’s Smokey Joe’s Cafe is Coming to Town

November 26, 2014 Staff 0

Smokey Joe’s Café – directed by Tony award nominee Chet Walker – is coming to Jacksonville as part of the 20th Anniversary national tour of ‘Broadway’s longest running musical revue!’ The show, billed as ‘the […]

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Marissa Alexander Agrees to Plea Deal

November 25, 2014 Staff 0

Florida mother will serve 65 more days in jail and will also be subject to two years of house arrest. by Patrick Peck The controversial criminal case against Marissa Alexander, the Black woman in Florida […]

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