Barrington Salmon Florida Phoeni Florida State University student activists in November 2023 demonstrated outside a university board of trustees meeting to demand divestment from Israel. (Christian Casale) Last year, a survey by the Pew Research Center conducted before the 60th anniversary of the landmark March on Washington showed that 81% of American adults believe that Read More…
This Friday, April 26, the state of Florida will celebrate Confederate Memorial Day, one of three official Confederate anniversaries that linger in state law, relics of Jim Crow. I am not opposed to memorializing people who died in war. Do that any day of the year. Or do it on the nation’s official Memorial Read More…
Historians, geneticists, and advocates of Afrocentrism have argued for years that the first inhabitants of China were Black Africans. According to Chang Hsing-Lang, who was a respected writer and professor in the early 1900s, there was in fact a Negro Empire that existed in the South of China at the dawn of the nation’s history. Read More…
The United States is in the midst of a transformative shift in its approach to cannabis.
Police oversight panels run by citizens, like the one pictured here in Miami-Dade County, will lose all investigative power July 1. On the same day that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill into law that would prohibit civilian oversight boards from investigating police misconduct (HB 601), the city of North Miami became the first to Read More…
Soon to be WNBA stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese (Sports Illustrated) Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese have both decided to forgo their final year of college eligibility and enter the WNBA Draft, though there aren’t multimillion dollar WNBA rookie contracts awaiting them. Clark, Iowa’s record-setting guard, is expected to be the No. 1 pick by the Indiana Read More…
No, you didn’t give her an eviction notice. Only a judge can order an eviction. You gave her a “Notice of Termination of At-Will Tenancy” (exact title varies by state). That was her official notice that her month-to-month tenancy has been terminated. Assuming you followed your state’s laws to-the-letter on serving her that notice (laws Read More…
I just had this happen to me less than a month ago. It was at a convenience store. I was driving in to park. The passenger at the pumps opened his door without looking, taking off my driver’s mirror and scraping the door. I was over 2 feet away from their car. He immediately started Read More…
More than 60 years after their historic championship victories, the Tennessee A&I Tigers, the first HBCU team to claim a national basketball title, were finally honored at the White House. Back in 1957, they made history as the first HBCU team to win a national championship and went on to win two more titles in Read More…
Nationwide — Alicen M. Felder, a 16-year-old author from Detroit, has released her latest book Don’t Count Me Out, to teach young people to always believe in themselves regardless of what others may say. She says that it is perfect for when others’ opinions of you often overrule your beliefs about yourself. Don’t Count Me Read More…
