Florida Sentinel Bulletin

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island man was arrested Thursday and charged with using gasoline to set several fires around the exterior of a predominantly Black church in North Providence early Sunday morning.

Kevin Colantonio, 34, of North Providence, was charged with maliciously damaging or destroying by means of fire or explosion a building or other real property, according to Zachary Cunha, U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island.

Colantonio set several fires around the exterior of the pentecostal Shiloh Gospel Temple early Feb. 11, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Providence, which said police and firefighters were sent to the church at 12:12 a.m. for reports of an individual trying to set fires.

The building was vacant at the time, and the fires were quickly extinguished by members of the North Providence Police and Fire departments, investigators said. The fires caused significant property damage, officials said.

No injuries were reported.

Rachel Dolezal

A former NAACP leader in Washington state who was exposed for pretending to be Black in 2015 is now making headlines for a different controversy.

Rachel Dolezal, who legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, was fired by the Catalina Foothills Unified School District in Arizona over her OnlyFans account, NBC News confirmed.

Her account had also made headlines in 2022, when leaked photos of her posing in lingerie circulated online.

The 18-and-up platform, which hosts millions of content creators, is known primarily as a service where sex workers share explicit photos behind a monthly paywall, although creators can share anything from cooking tutorials to fitness routines. Subscribers can also pay extra fees to receive personalized pay-per-view messages from their favorite creators.

Though the controversial figure has been active on the content subscription platform for years, the district didn’t learn of Diallo’s OnlyFans posts until Tuesday afternoon, according to Julie Farbarik, a spokesperson for Catalina Foothills Unified School District.

Nicholas Buamah

Nationwide — At 12 years old, Nicholas Buamah is a young African American author, producer and philanthropist who continues to defy expectations in the literary world with the release of his 4th book, The Sky Is Not The Limit, Positive Affirmations To Help You Rise Above The Sky. This remarkable achievement marks yet another milestone in the young author’s career as he becomes one of the youngest writers to have multiple works archived in the esteemed Library of Congress.

Inspired by his passion to motivate and inspire his peers, Nicholas’s latest book showcases positive affirmations. He wants his readers to understand that they don’t have to be confined by others’ limits and beliefs. He wants them to know that it’s okay to be a dreamer, a topic he spoke about during his latest keynote speech at The DoSeum Dream Leader Award Ceremony in San Antonio, Texas.

Also, visit his official website at NicholasBuamah.com

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A Florida House panel has approved legislation to preemptively set potency caps on recreational marijuana ahead of a potential vote on a legalization initiative on the November ballot.

The legislation, which would prohibit dispensary sales of adult-use cannabis flower with a potency of greater than 30 percent THC, cleared the House Health and Human Services Committee on a 14-6 vote on Thursday.

All other cannabis products would be limited to 60 percent THC under the legislation, and it would mandate a serving size on edible products of 10 milligrams THC or less, with the total amount per package no more than 200 mg.

“It’s important for us as elected representatives to protect the public from potential harms, including harms that might occur through adult-use marijuana,” he said.

Massullo’s legislation as introduced would have initially set a potency limit of 10 percent THC for flower cannabis, but that was raised to 30 percent during a subcommittee hearing earlier this month.

Similar marijuana potency restriction legislation is also advancing in the Senate.

Florida’s medical cannabis dosage limits, meanwhile,—which were revised under controversial rules adopted in 2022, despite pushback from then-Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried (D)—are not based on the percentage of THC in a given product.