Month: August 2026

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the police shooting of Jacob Blake: Another horrendous shooting by police. Another Black man wounded. Another police department under national scrutiny. With the shooting of Jacob Blake Sunday night, Kenosha […]

N’dea Yancey-BraggAntonia Jaramillo – NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps is slated to make history next year when she becomes the first Black woman to live on the International Space Station for months at a time. If everything […]

Christine Sexton -August 26, 2020 – TALLAHASSEE — Members of the state pharmacy board agreed Wednesday to remove heart failure from a list of chronic conditions that pharmacists would be authorized to treat in collaboration […]

Jim Turner –  TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis backed allowing more customers at major theme parks in Orlando as he and park officials gave high marks Wednesday to coronavirus safety measures. The expansion push came […]

By Jim Turner August 26, 2020 – TALLAHASSEE — State general revenues came in just above a forecast amount in July, but the coronavirus pandemic continued to hammer sales-tax collections. Numbers released Wednesday by the Legislature’s […]

by Cedric ‘BIG CED’ Thornton – Republicans invited a number of controversial speakers at this year’s Republican National Convention. One such speaker is pro-life advocate Abby Johnson, who spoke on Tuesday at the virtual event. In […]

By Cassidy Sparks | August 27, 2020-Tennis star Naomi Osaka is the latest athlete refuse to play in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake, an unarmed Black man, who was shot multiple times by a White police […]

NNPA NEWSWIRE — By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent “In 2020, more Black Americans will die of COVID-19 than will succumb to diabetes, strokes, accidents, or pneumonia. In fact, COVID-19 is currently […]

August 24, 2020 – Not even a global pandemic could diminish the powerful spirit of praise, worship and celebration during the historic virtual broadcast of the Stellar Gospel Music Awards Sunday night on BET and BET […]