Florida Sentinel Bulletin

Lifetime will kick off Black History Month in February with the film Betty & Coretta, starring Angela Bassett and Mary J. Blige. The movie is executive produced by Blige and also stars Malik Yoba, and Lindsay Owen Pierre. Focusing on the extraordinary women behind the two men who would change history, Betty & Coretta tells […]

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Nine-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis received an Oscar nomination for her leading role in Beasts of the Southern Wild, making her the youngest performer to ever be nominated in the leading actress category. Auditioning for the lead role when she was only 5 years old, Quvenzhané was 6 when filming began in 2010. Beasts of the Southern […]

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Don Cheadle won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Comedy Series Sunday night at the 2013 ceremony. The “House Of Lies” star beat out fellow nominees Jim Parsons, Alec Baldwin, Matt LeBlanc and Louis C.K. LeBlanc. Parsons and Baldwin are all former winners. Baldwin has three-career wins. “This is unexpected,” Cheadle said while […]

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Our Beauty Unlimited feature this week is Helena, and make sure to check out her new 2013 calendar at  www.Iamhelena.com. Helena says her hobbies are scrap booking, modeling, and collecting betty Boop memorabilia. In the future, she was to accomplish more within her love of modeling. Her philosophy of life is: “Life is a beach; […]

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Tampa’s own recording artists, Cepeda McKay and No Limits will make their national debut on the Bobby Jones Gospel Show, on BET, Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 9 A. M. locally. And if that’s not enough, they will release their new single, “As One,” nationally, the following day, January 21. Cepeda states, “Although I am […]

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BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer The final phase of the $1.8 million 22nd Street Enhancement Project began Monday morning, with the area from 21st Avenue to 23rd Avenue to be done. The first phase of the project began at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard and ended at Lake Avenue. The second phase […]

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BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor Just 14 days ago, a Tampa native stationed at MacDill Air Force Base, learned that he had been promoted to Colonel. On Sunday, January 13, 2013, Lieutenant Colonel Michael L. Dawson, passed away suddenly at his Valrico home. His family is baffled by what has occurred, since he had no […]

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Tampa Police have arrested two men after a incident in the parking lot of the District II Substation on 30th Street. Police said Milton Coley, 24, and Luis Xavier Ruiz-Machado arranged to meet  at 109th Avenue and Lantana Avenue to conduct a drug deal around 12:40 p. m. Friday. When Coley refused to pay Ruiz-Machado […]

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BY GWEN HAYES Sentinel Editor When students in Hillsborough County elementary schools returned to class on Monday, January 7, 2013, after Christmas break, they were greeted by the presence of police officers from the Tampa Police Dept. or deputies from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. The visible presence of officers at elementary schools locally was […]

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