Business Financial History National News Uncategorized

Legacy Home Loans – Black – Owned Mortgage Banking Firm

Legacy Home Loans –  Black-owned mortgage banking firm headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada, have opened three new branch offices in Black and minority communities as they continue to make good on their commitment to empowering African American communities throughout the United States. “We have a focus on building sustainable wealth through homeownership and leaving family Read More…

New Books Uncategorized Youth In Action

ShaQuanda Cotton – Memoir of a “Teacher Slapping”

ShaQuanda Cotton, who in 2006 was sentenced to up to 7 years confinement at a Texas juvenile detention facility as a black teen following accusations that she pushed a white teacher’s aide, announces the release of her new book, ‘Memoir of a “Teacher Slapping”  On September 30, 2005, 14-year-old ShaQuanda Cotton attempted to enter a Read More…

crime International Local National News Politics State Uncategorized

Global Report – FL Among Top States For Mass Incarceration

Global report: FL among top states for mass incarceration. Florida and a dozen other states imprison people at the highest rates in the world, without demonstrating that incarceration reduces crime, says the Prison Policy Initiative, a non-partisan research and policy advocacy organization. Florida’s rate of incarceration in prisons and jails was 795 people per 100,000, Read More…

Politics Uncategorized

U.S. Judge Blocks DeSantis, Sheriffs, From Enforcing Governor’s Anti-Riot Law

U.S. judge blocks DeSantis, sheriffs, from enforcing governor’s anti-riot law,‘That type of law is simply a trap for the innocent,’ jurist concludes. A federal judge has barred enforcement of one of Gov. Ron DeSantis signature legislative achievements this year — HB 1, his Black Lives Matter-inspired crackdown on protests —ruling that its redefinition of “riot” Read More…