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Congresswomen urge extension of TPS for Haitian migrants in U.S.
Miami, Fla. – U.S. Congresswomen Frederica Wilson and Sheila CherfilusMcCormick, both Democrats from South Florida, are urging President Biden and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security …
Testimony: School shooter drew swastikas, sought child porn
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP) – Prosecutors in the penalty trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz began their rebuttal of the defense case Tuesday by …
In Fort Myers, neglect in aftermath of Hurricane Ian
Lee County was the area hit hardest by Hurricane Ian when the Category 4 storm made landfall last week. For days, national and world news …
Supreme Court’s top cases for new term, new Justice Jackson
The Supreme Court opens its new term Monday, hearing arguments for the first time after a summer break and with new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. …
Blacks In Technology hosting BITCON
Orlando, Fla. (Black PR Wire) – Blacks In Technology, LLC and the Blacks In Technology Foundation (BIT) are hosting BITCON 2022, their 4th annual conference …
New York town justice removed for pulling gun on Black man
Whitehall, N.Y. (AP) – A town justice in upstate New York who bragged to colleagues about pulling a loaded gun on a “large Black man” …
Mississippi man gets hate crime charge in cross burning
Jackson, Miss (AP) – A Mississippi man has been charged with a federal hate crime for burning a cross in his front yard to threaten …
Black Lives Matter Grassroots calls for an end to police qualified immunity
A jury reached its verdict Thursday, Sept. 22 in Tampa federal court in the case of Andrew Joseph III vs Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. Joseph, …
Civil rights law targets ‘cancer alley’ discrimination
Reserve, La. (AP) – Sprawling industrial complexes line the drive east along the Mississippi River to the majority-Black town of Reserve, Louisiana. In the last …