Friends of Marion County Black History Museum https://www.facebook.com/people/Friends-of-Marion-County-Black-History-Museum/61582691195796/ ARTICLE BELOW WAS PRINTED BY OCALA BANNER IN NOVEMBER 18, 2021 ‘The people’s museum’: Black History Museum of Marion County is open again in west Ocala Andy Fillmore The Black History Museum of Marion County at Howard Academy Community Center has reopened after a year-long closure due to the Read More…
FAYE ANNETTE GARY of Ocala, Florida, was elected MISS FAMU for the 1961-62 school year. Attached are just a few clippings of this Amazing SUPER Women! FAYE GARY | Distinguished University Professor https://case.edu/universityprofessor/past-recipients/faye-gary MISS FAMU Source: The Jacksonville Times-Union, Sun, Oct 08, 1961 p 2 QUEEN of the Orange Blossom Classic Source: The Miami Herald, Sat Dec 09, 1961 Read More…
Carmen Manor Motel, Ocala, Florida The Carmen Manor Motel, 1044 [South] West Broadway [Street], Ocala, FL 34471 [approximate location; no current 1000 block] was listed in the 1956 Green Book. Dr. Ernest Emerson Lamb owned and operated the Club Bali and the Carmen Manor Motel. The businesses were located next door to each other. Ernest Read More…
He was the son of Israel McDuffy and his wife Rebecca English. Little is known of his early life or how he got to Florida at some point before 1896. He then rented a farm in Marion County, and after a time purchased one there, comprising about Eight hundred acres, on which he had made Read More…
First African American Physician in Ocala, Florida Dr. Thomas Playfair Lloyd was the first African American doctor in Ocala. Suwannee County native Thomas P. Lloyd practiced medicine in Ocala from 1889 until his death in 1896. Dr. Thomas P. Lloyd was born May 18, 1868 in Live Oak, Florida. He graduated from the Leonard Medical Read More…
Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had “personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to “disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to a document released by the Justice Department on Friday. Released as part of the DOJ’s publication of around 3.5 million files on Jeffrey Epstein, the FBI tip Read More…
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN THE LAST ELECTION SO DON’T LET HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF AI-GENERATED IMAGE This image, created by a radio host and his team using AI, is one of dozens of fakes portraying black Trump supporters Donald Trump supporters have been creating and sharing AI-generated fake images of black voters to encourage African Read More…
Jake Guse, a crop scout on the Pro Farmer Crop Tour, collects corn samples from a corn field as scouts travel across the midwest trying to gauge the size of the corn and soybean crop that farmers will harvest in the fall, in northwest Indiana on Aug. 19, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson described Read More…
Analysis by Kristen Welker The Justice Department’s announcement today that it was releasing more than 3 million pages of records related to Jeffrey Epstein raises a key question for the Trump administration: Will it be enough to quell criticism from lawmakers, survivors and some of the president’s own supporters? President Donald Trump‘s handling of the Epstein investigation has Read More…
Uline warehouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Photograph: Wirestock, Inc./Alamy© Photograph: Wirestock, Inc./Alamy When Laura Wittmann decided this week to submit her resignation from Uline, the giant office supply company owned by two of the biggest donors to Donald Trump’s 2024 election and other Maga Republicans, she did not hold back. “As America descends rapidly into fascism,” Wittmann Read More…
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