Florida Sentinel Bulletin

BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Last week, a capacity crowd attended the Hillsborough County Branch NAACP meeting. Those in attendance were concerned after it became known that the voting rights of several hundred convicted felons had been restored. Earlier during the month, the Sentinel learned that the voting rights of 17,000 Florida residents […]

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BY LEON B. CREWS Sentinel Staff Writer As Jesuit Head Football coach, James Harrell, prepares for his third season, he unexpectedly found himself dealing with a tragedy. Frank Rose, Jesuit’s Assistant Coach and running backs coach, died suddenly Monday. He was 38. Rose was a member of Leto High School’s first district championship team in […]

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Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies report that on Sunday, August 26th at 10:20 p. m., Micah Williams, 27, and Michael Cala (pictured), 49, got into an argument that turned physical. Deputies said Cala called Williams a racial slur over and over again, then grabbed a gas can and started pouring it on Williams’ front porch while […]

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LUDOWICI, GA — Four Army soldiers based in southeast Georgia killed a former comrade and his girlfriend to protect an anarchist militia group they formed that stockpiled assault weapons and plotted a range of anti-government attacks, prosecutors told a judge Monday. Prosecutors in rural Long County, near the sprawling Army post Fort Stewart, said the […]

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Friends, family and supporters of Morris Brown College converged on the school’s campus over the weekend for a special “National Day of Prayer.” Saturday’s event, which was described as a prayer vigil, attracted hundreds keen to show their support for the historic black college as it struggles to stay afloat. Among the crowd were alumni, […]

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NASHVILLE, Tennessee — A U.S. man says he has discovered the audio tape of a forgotten interview with civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that was never published. Stephon Tull says he recently found the nearly pristine reel-to-reel recording in his father’s attic in Tennessee. His father interviewed King in 1960 for a […]

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WASHINGTON — The federal trial over South Carolina’s voter identification law got under way Monday with a state senator insisting his work on the law was aimed at fighting fraud and instilling public confidence in the election system. During morning testimony, state Sen. George “Chip” Campsen, III cited examples of fraud that he took into […]

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Ernest Osel Addo was arrested at his home in Austell, Ga., for allegedly posing as a doctor in South Carolina for more than six months, according to the newspaper The State. Authorities say that Addo, 48, was employed by Agape Senior, a company that operates 23 assisted living, skilled nursing care, rehab and hospice facilities […]

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Trey Songz speaks with Our Time and joins with such celebrities like Will Smith, Lady Gaga, Usher, will.i.am, Jessica Alba and many more encouraging young people to vote. Trey Songz also speaks on why young people don’t vote and that they have to be patient because change doesn’t come over night. Food for thought for those who […]

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